Jessica's Blog — Social Justice

Why Bother?

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Why Bother?
The SBG Bucket Club is my eff-you to the billionaires who are carelessly laying waste to our precious planet.

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All of us together, doing what we can to make this world kinder and healthier.

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All of us together, doing what we can to make this world kinder and healthier.
For those of us sitting in solidarity with those outdoors suffering through innumerable challenges to have something like REALITY BITES with us brings a community offering of comfort and real time help all perfectly delivered in a cup thanks to the Singing Bowl Granola community.

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Reciprocity

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Reciprocity

“You might rightly observe that we no longer live in small, insular societies, where generosity and mutual esteem structure our relations. But we could. It is within our power to create such webs of interdependence, quite outside the market economy. Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprints and soil organic matter. It is all of those things, but it’s also about the deeply human desire for connection, to be in reciprocity...

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Ten Years of Singing Bowl Granola!

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Ten Years of Singing Bowl Granola!

Understanding the concept of Enough has been one of my biggest lessons in life and has brought me an abundance of peace and happiness.

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TRANSPARENTING - Five Years in and loving it!

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TRANSPARENTING - Five Years in and loving it!

  I wrote this blog post a few years ago, and, in honour of Pride Week starting in Victoria, BC, I have decided to re-post it.  It has now been five years, almost to the day since my son informed us that he identifies as male.  As he approaches his 19th birthday and legal adulthood, I could not be prouder of him. He is a smart, kind, compassionate, engaged, generous human being, and I am honoured to be his mother.    Well, it happened again. A friend recently asked me, “Are you okay? How are you doing?” Then, “It must...

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