Title: sweet peace

Gender: Female

Age: 47

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Location: Austin, TX

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann


I'm a tree hugger from way back.  I learned it initially from my maternal grandmother (Mammaw), thank God.  I would so much rather see trees than concrete.  I can live without that new strip mall. 

I am ever learning how to send more love out.  It's easy to send love out to like-minded folks like herein, and on a good day.  Where I am willing and able to learn the most about love is when I am having a challenging moment, or with those whose views are so different from mine.  I say to myself, “Self: Give us ALL love, please!  Stop with the superiority complex already!”  That is why THEY commanded “Love thine enemies”  and not “Love thy best friends and those of the same race, religion, and political party.”

Organic food rocks my world! 

See what I've been doing for the last 12 years at:
www.naturalgardeneraustin.com
Some of my writing is under “information,” then “organic growing guides.”

Love and Gratitude make the world go 'round!

“With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.” – Barbara Kingsolver, from Small Wonder

”Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” – Permaculture founder Bill Mollison

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete.”
~Buckminster Fuller