Why do I do this?

What happened this last year with the financial collapse of our nation’s economy and well, the rest of the world’s too, enlightened me. I’ve always thought of myself as a conscientious person. One who thinks before she speaks, tries to put others before herself and does things for those less fortunate. This past year made a LOT of us less fortunate, but this is not “misfortune” in my book.  I was given the opportunity to give in ways that got me back in touch with who I really need and want to be…but more importantly HOW to be it. Not that she had been forgotten, but perhaps just a little mislead.

In my many days of plodding around the wood floors of my studio, I’d pick up various snidgets of who knows what and lots and lots of fur-balls. My two kitties would follow me around, meowing for a treat or some love because they knew I’d give it to them. As part of my morning practice and ritual, coffee with cream and sugar and the saying of 5 things I was grateful for to take the focus off of what I wasn’t getting, a paycheck. And each and every day, those two cats were in the 5. They have so enriched my life. They ask for nothing but food, water, and yes, I believe affection. I’m happy to give it. I’m not a crazy cat lady, just a person who believes in the importance of nature and it’s voice, it’s presence and it’s preservation. There is no room for intentional cruelty in mother nature’s world, nor should there be in man’s.

Hence, why I do this. 10% to my furry friends. Each and every sale.

Oh hai!