Brummet's Conscious Blog

Welcome back everyone :) I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. Our weekend was crazy busy, but a lot of fun. We had a full mix of bright sun and warm weather moving to wind and even a rain storm - all in one weekend :) Today, we have bright sunshine, crystal blue sky and singing birds :) * Win a prize: this week 2 books available! Listen to the introduction to today's interview (see below for more info) to learn the question you need to answer, and then email me at: ldbrummet @ yahoo . com (*remove the spaces before emailing). Prizes : Young adult book - Anything But a Dog! by Lisa Saunders & Children's Book - Sikulu and Harambe by Kunle Oguneye Something to think about: The average NA car driving 10,000 miles per year releases 5.5 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere! Scientists are now saying that ice in the ocean in the summer will soon be something found in the history books. Fear and feeling overwhelmed are keeping some of us from doing all that we can in our l...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ For more than 30 years I’ve been writing books, and more often than not publishers will approach me to write on a particular subject. …I’ve had as high as what they call ‘four-book deals’ …So I worked by contract for many, many years. …And that can also be frustrating because I have things I would like to also unfold (creatively). …I think the 70th book, Re-think Your Life, is my defining book. …The concept is Mind by Design – the essence is to eliminate mental junk food and move to right-thinking. I feel that all of us are in a state of information overload. …Most of us are in mental fatigue. …“Fix” – challenge your mind, you have to decide that the buzzards are circling but they are not going to get me down. …”Filter” – you have to influence your mind, you have to compartmentalize those things that you can do now and those that are beyond your control that day. “Form” – form positive relationships …I don’t want to be around people who brighten the room as t...

* Today is your last chance to enter the draw for this week's prize. Entry deadline is noon on Saturday, April 11th. This week’s prize: hardcover children’s illustrated book titled: Sikulu and Harambe by the Zambezi River *Signed by the author, Kunle Oguneye. Retail value between $12-15 depending on where you shop! Email me at ldbrummet-at-yahoo-dot-com (* replace the "-at-" with "@", and the "-dot-" with ". ") To enter: tell me the name of the featured guest and the topic for the April 2nd broadcast of Conscious Discussions radio. Draw will be on Saturday Afternoon…April 11th. -- Quote of the Day -- “… If I don’t write, things just don’t feel right. I love being immersed in words, I’ve always had an overactive imagination and find myself asking “what if…?”. Which can get me in trouble sometimes, I’ll send stuff to my agent and she’ll say ‘No-no, no’. (she giggles). …When I was first starting out as a writer the people around me were not ver...

-- Quote of the Day -- "The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command." ~ Sam McGee of 'Lord of the Rings' by J.R. Tolken -- Positive Eco-News -- From Japan for Sustainability Newsletter: www.japansf.org Japan's Toshiba Corporation announced on December 3, 2008, that it will accelerate the development of its carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) technology by building a pilot plant at Sigma Power Ariake Co. Ltd.'s Mikawa Power Plant, in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture. CCS is a technology that separates and captures CO2 emitted by thermal power plants and many other industrial sites, and then stores it underground. Construction is scheduled to start in the spring of 2009, and a demonstration test using real flue gas is expected to begin in August. -- Conscious Discussions -- Today featured guest: Joan Scott – Topic: " World of Writng with Joa...

-- Quote of the Day -- "In the past 3 years (1991-94) 950 varieties of vegetables have become extinct and of the survivors 74% - or almost 4,000 varieties - are endangered." ~ Ann Rodes article: 'The Seed Savers', Canadian Gardening Magazine -- Gardening for Life -- article © Lillian Brummet Have you ever noticed how happy and centered gardeners tend to be? Could it be from communing with nature, sharing nutrient-rich harvests with others, or knowing that every increased amount of greenery helps battle the environmental problems our world faces? For me, playing in the dirt - as I often refer to gardening - is just that. Play time, time for meditation and to listen to the birds. Yet, gardening can mean so much more. For many years, my family has been dedicated to preserving rare and endangered garden seeds. We tried the hybrids, but after a while we realized they were just not performing like the old varieties. Whether it was small yields or poor tolerance to heat wa...

-- Conscious Discussions -- Today’s guest has a lot of information to share… Brook Kelley has been a professional writer/researcher for 8 years, 4 years as an editor for magazines and books, 15 years of photography work with prestigious magazines as Elle Girl and Glamour. In her 10 years experience as a speaker she focuses on inspiring and motivating others to make a difference in the world. We are going to talk about all of this, and a wonderful organization that fights injustice on human rights across the planet – known as the Unify Organization. Tune in by clicking on the hyper-linked show title here or look to the right for a link to the Conscious Discussions talk radio show. -- Announcement -- Check out the interview with the Brummets via the Author Interviews link at: www.mcolesworks.webs.com/thewritecorner.htm -- Prize Contest!! -- You may recall that we’ve been putting out announcements for prizes every week on Conscious Discussions. Well, as promised we are starting off with...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ Freedom is not doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be ” ~ Ardis Whitman -- Authors Read -- Elizabeth Eagan Cox appears on Authors Read radio this morning to share and excerpt from book two of the Shannon Delaney Cozy Paranormal Mystery series - A Ghost From the Shadows . *The reading for book 1 of this series aired on : Oct 17, 2008 To access the Authors Read radio simply click on one of the hyper-links here or look to the right for a link to the website. --Garbage in its Place -- There is nothing worse than seeing garbage blowing down the street of your neighborhood, or finding broken shards of glass at the local swimming hole where children play. Wildlife is just as vulnerable to garbage and many have lost their lives after becoming tangled in waste or mistaking garbage for food. It is up to each of us to make an effort to minimize this unsightly, and sometimes hazardous, problem. Animals, wind and traffic breezes put legs to loose...