You may have noticed that I am late in posting and that I'm playing around with my blog skin. I did that yesterday in place of actually posting, then realized I had to go practice for the Christmas choir program and had used up all my time doing non important things relating to blog skins, meanwhile pretending it was Sabbath-worthy since it relates (ever-so-indirectly) to family history and my family journal.
Last week was ok, somewhat lame, but also we had a wonderful time at the Huntington Gardens on Thursday--an overcast, cool, green day. I'll post pics later in the week.
Our family is just in a funk, I guess. Lame, unblog-worthy issues, mainly. Not for public consumption. Although, I said something to Ben today as we were driving somewhere, and as it came out of my mouth, I wondered if it was a divine message to myself (through myself). Ben was complaining that we were going the wrong way because I was taking a different route he was unfamiliar with. I grumpily said to him:
"Just because you don't know where you're going does not mean you aren't going the right way."
I hope that's true.
So, instead of reading about the details of my week, watch this short video instead, and have your kids watch it (8+ probably). It's a helpful remedy for the holiday gimmee-gimees, and goes along with my previous post on consumption (thanks Cousin Lisa for the link!)
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
The fashion stuff and "planned obsolesence" segment is particularly interesting. It really leaves you not wanting to be a sucker.
My friend from the Netherlands is very surprised that sustainability and concern for the environment is a politicized issue in the US. She said that in Europe, taking care of the environment was a given as necessary thing and not appropriated by one political party. Well, I guess that's one blessing of being an avowed Independent!
Valerie
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