Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Announcements -- Owner Jennine Morales interviews award winning author Lillian Brummet today at Gathering Authors: Interview Pit this weekend. Gathering Authors is a place where authors join with their written works of art to introduce to the world. Between 6 and 8 PM (PST) tonight (Dec 5th) Voice of the People Radio host November Hanson will interview us (Dave & Lillian Brummet) for the full two hours! This is going to be a very indepth discussion about the world of writing and making a difference as an individual. Check it out by clicking the links here. http://voiceofthepeopleradio.com -- Recommended Resource -- An online writer friend of ours, Barbara Spring, has a new water-related podcast that we would like to recommend: The Dynamic Great Lakes Stuff Your Rucksack (www.stuffyourrucksack.com) a site that enables travellers to help other travellers to give practical assistance to people who have the least, but often give the most. -- Conscious Ho...

-- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Back on Tuesday this week we offered Conscious Discussions Radio listeners a Positive Eco-News segment that discussed e-waste and lighting innovations like CFL's and LED's. Today we featured Cynthia Primm - to discuss how we can Trade Sorrow for Something Greater . *Our Skype connection was giving us a little trouble so please forgive the minor sound issues for the host's line. -- Domestic Solar Panel Sales Rise -- Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association (JPEA) released its statistics for the shipping of solar panels during the first quarter of fiscal 2009, which it collected by surveying 24 Japanese manufacturers. According to the statistics, domestic sales accounts for 29.3 percent of the total sales in that country… and this sector has increased by 82.5 percent over the last year. -- Conscious Holiday Gifts & Celebrations -- - A reusable coffee filter and whole organic, shade-grown coffee beans. Shade-grown coffee is a method of...

-- Quote of the Day -- If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in disguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D -- Prize Winners for Last Week's Contest -- Congratulations to last week's prize draw winners - Judy K., T.Wilkins & Lizanne E. - who will receive Michael Hanson's short story collection Sha'Daa , Tom Riddell's nonfiction book Pieces of My Path & Lillian Brummet's e-book: Towards Understandin g. Thank you for participating everyone! *Check out this week's prize announcement and enter before Sunday! Prize Draw Contest for Nov 16-23: Enter to win a copy of Lillian Brummet's e-book Towards Understanding - info @: www.brummet.ca & a copy of Tom Riddell's nonfiction book: Pieces of My Path (www.tomriddell.com) To enter the draw all you need to do is: Email me at: ldbrummet @ yahoo . com (remove spaces before sending) with the word "prize" in the subject line...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ I’m 64.5 years old and I meet a lot of people who say, ‘I can’t change, I’ve always done this…’ and I think of myself as a perfect example and say, ‘Of course you can change! As long as you are alive, you can make choices and decisions based on what you think is right.’ … I get to be out there and show people that you can be 60, 70, 80, or 90 and still change and grow. …The first step for greening any event is the the 3- R’s, which sounds so basic. …Think about how you can reduce – maybe the party can be done with less food, less packaging. …And Reuse, How can we do this and make it fun? Perhaps everyone can bring their own plate for food. …and of course for recycling make sure that you have the recycling bins and compost bucket ready for use. …If you took one item with reduce, one with reuse, one with recycle – you would be so much farther down the road (of greening your world) ” ~ Lynn Colwell Oct 15, 2009 I chose this quote today to go along with the events ...

-- Quote of the Day -- “… Coaching is not therapy, advice or counseling. It is about accountability – walking hand in hand to the place that you have defined for yourself. …Drive to the place that is waiting for you to arrive – and guess what you have to manage the wheel too! …when your awareness has you looking at the warning lights, when it says you need new brakes we want to be aware of that. But sometimes we can’t see that and don’t realize we are in overheat mode. So a coach will help you through that and help you determine whether you will be fooled by that in the future. Some people just leave their car by the side of the road! Wow – there goes your life, your dreams that have now become nightmares! …You don’t need to know any more than you already know – let’s go and and get what you want .” ~ Joe Palmer – April 2, 2009 -- Today's quote was taken from a Conscious Discussions talk radio show interview with Joe Palmer - To access this discussion on how to Be Who You Were ...