I found this article about China producing fake organic certificates. I’m sure it’s just a small drop in the bucket of consumer fraud. Organics means money. So watch what you buy and consume. The best bet, shop local from people you know and trust, or better yet, grow your own. Even a few small window planters can yield a summer’s worth of meals. Plus, as mentioned in yesterday’s blog, look around your own backyard.
Category Archives: Quote for the Day
Quotes for the Day, from a wide variety of sources, are posted on our website, as well as on our Riverwalker Facebook page.
And Here’s More Good News…
So why are so many people eating the new wonder fish, talapia, anyway?
Read this article and find out.
Look What We’ve Done
Here is an eyeopening look at the true plight of the salmon. If page doesn’t load properly reload the page and it should come up or simply click on “watch the full episode.”
Watch the full episode. See more Nature.
Go to the Source
Here are a few quotes to ponder from Hexagram #48: Well, taken from The Living I Ching by Deng Ming-Dao.
“The muddy well does not feed. No birds come to an ancient well.”
“Well: draw from it, and you draw from the source. No matter how advanced a civilization becomes, its foundations depend on nature. A source of water cannot be replaced.”
“On a practical level, we must maintain our supply of water and food. On a spiritual level, our understanding deepens the more we dwell on the sources of our existence.”
“The water comes to us freely from the earth, deposited by the last winter’s rains…This free use of a well is a metaphor for how we should conduct our lives. If we are careful and healthy in our conduct, we will be replenished each day. Accordingly, we must give all that we can today, knowing that tomorrow will bring new support. Those who are narrow and selfish with their energies grow smaller, not greater. Give everything that you can. Do not hold back: unless water is drawn from a well, new water cannot flow in.”
“Water from the earth is wonderfully pure, refreshing, and invigorating. Our scientists can find little different about this water in their laboratories, but those who drink from the wellsprings know better. Expensive bottled water and manufactured beverages cannot help us in the way a well can. Eschew the artificial. Go to the source.”
Cherokee Wisdom
“Negative thinking is a habit that can be changed—if we really want to change it. It is too often like pressing on a sore spot just one more time to see if it still hurts. Most people’s problems are found in areas of need—the need to have difficulty, the need to have something to deal with so they can feel needed and important. After all, what do we do when no one is depending on us? It is an innate Cherokee belief that we have no need to borrow trouble…let it stay where it is.” —Joyce Sequichie Hifler
“Though we are powerful and strong, and we know how to fight, we do not wish to fight.” —The Cherokees