It's great thoughts like these, Justine, that interrupt me during very important activities, like smoking a morning cigarette I don't particularly want.

There I stand, pondering nothing, then, out of the blue, a small cartoon figure of myself....next to a very large pile of trash.

Mmmmn, I guess the trash pile was about the height of a two story house. Very modest, as I remember it, but it made a point.

I am enjoying my small Christmas tree, but wonder how I can economize, reduce waste, embrace an actual simplicity which matches the rhetoric.

Some kind of lean, unmean machine, maybe....I'll drink to that.

love, b

Yes, like Recoverer says, best to listen up, and see what happens when you start sharing your stories. It's all good.

love, b