Ecological cleaning

The "trailblazer housewife" is trying to clean in a more environmentally friendly manner! I often worry about the fumes that come from now conventional cleaning products when I use them, as well as their effect outside my home when they leave through the drains. If you have similar thoughts every time you clean (or if you're lucky, have your place cleaned for you!), then read on... 

The river

Message from the Hopi Nation

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination...
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of the river,
keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

 - The Elders, Oraibi, Arizona, Hopi Nation

Meta-economics (cont.)

(Vintage book cover 2011 edition)

I owe any readers of this blog a definition of meta-economics...

"Prof E.H. Phelps Brown, in his Presidential Address to the Royal Economic Society on ‘The Underdevelopment of Economics’, talked about ‘the smallness of the contribution that the most conspicuous developments in economics in the last quarter of a century have made to the solution of the most pressing problems of the times’, and among these problems he lists ‘checking the adverse effects on the environment and the quality of life of industrialism, population growth and urbanism’.