Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Writer Interview # 14 --  Lily Oak: the creator of www.hedge-witchery.com and run Hedge Witchery Books. Her current projects include a first full length fiction as well as shorter creative peices and pagan articles for various sites and e-zines. I also contributed to and published 'Hope Moon' a charity book for Haiti. Q. What is your idea of happiness? Lot's of things... usually depending on my mood at the time. There are however a few things that I find bliss incarnate! The first sip of tea in the morning. Absolute silence... but not for too long. The smell of rain. Fat, green, stone-left-in olives.  Q. Are you doing what you really want to do in life? Not entirley, but I'm heading in that direction. A lot of people say the real joy is in the journey, and I think they are probably right. Q. In your career as a writer - what do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses? I think my strength is setting a scene, creating a mood, p...

-- Events & Celebrations -- I hope that everyone had a relaxing long weekend ;) For those of you who are not already aware, here in Canada we just celebrated Labor Day - which is a time when we honor those who strove for a better workplace, better rights and health care for workers. In this time of economic strife, especially here in BC where we have the highest cost of living AND the lowest minimum wage in Canada - we can use this time to re-evaluate where our nation is right now and where we are heading in the future. September is National Prevention Month and National Ovarian Cancer Month - you will likely be seeing many articles in your favorite publications in the next few weeks dealing with these topics. -- Bringing Back Wildlife -- * Source: Japan For Sustainability Organization www.Japanfs.org Sapporo Maruyama Zoo (Hokkaido, Japan) launched the Steller's Sea Eagle Program in autumn 2008 under the Wildlife Restoration Project , with the aim of protecting the environment...