My resolutions, as well as the primary subject of this blog, will have to do with sustainability of one kind or another. Sustainability has become such a slippery word. For me, sustainability means consuming less and sharing more. This is as true in my relationships as it is in my possessions. I want to make a smaller footprint everywhere.
This blog is going to be a very important part of my journey. I will use it to keep record of this year, from my perspective…keep people I already know connected to what I am doing…and to, hopefully, build a virtual community of people who, like me, are working their way to their own personal connection with sustainability.
For the record, here are my resolutions:
- Become wired. I am tweeting (look me up on twitter and follow me!)…facebooking (same thing…search me) and now committed to blogging at least three times a week. This is building and sustaining community.
- Meditate, somehow, every day. To sustain peace of mind.
- Tweet gratitude once a day, every day. To sustain balance and a sense of gratitude.
- Thrift shopping once a month…never done it. Will be a giant adventure! Recycling instead of consuming.
- Find and participate in at least one barter session this year. Direct trade, ultimately a more sustainable model than international trade.
- Recreate the dinner party “salons” with my local community…this is wonderful, more to come on this later. Sustaining community and sharing.
- Learn to knit. A hobby of sustainability.
Most of the blog entries will be about working toward sustainability…but I am thinking my weekend post will be goofy and funny…I won’t be able to maintain my enthusiasm for this if I can’t play a little (I say this as if my posts will be very somber…hard to imagine if you know me.)
I have a very consuming full time job, and we are planning to move the family into town this year, so it is going to be a very busy year.
Bookmark me. It’s gonna be fun.
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