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... how could I forget our national public radio, the CBC. Concerts, interviews, artists galore. I ADORE the 'free' public radio and would gladly pay more tax dollars for even more content.

The summertime night market in Chinatown; visiting old Italian grocery stores like Tosi's on Main Street and Bosa's on Victoria Drive (not the new one); the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival in the autumn.....

-pack up my family and spend a good chunk of time 'in the south' doing some int'l development work, ideally a rockin' social justice gig with the the Catholic Church
-last night in bed I thought... I want to go to law school.
-move to rural Ireland and raise sheep, grow vegetable, produce wool and run and inn. Excpet, I actually want a franchise of inns.
-sing and act on stage

Powerful, illuminiating question. Thank you C&D.

I want the power, the perils and the critical importance of mothering to hit the news headlines regularly . I want financial gain for my role as full-time working at home caring for my child and family and managing our home and life.

I'm truly sorry so many people are suffering. I feel anger that people with 'in the know' and 'in power' have built and maintained a financial house on such shaky ground and with so little regulation as I understand the situation. I feel frustrated that we as local, national, and global citizens have handed over so much power and 'allowed' our leaders to led without accountability. I believe this kind of correction is necessary and I actually worry that too much is being done to prevent an even deeper crisis from emerging. Too much avoidance of consequence and conflict in our world.

getting to know my slow cooker

I've stopped being so curious about why other mamas do things the way they do. I've gotten more curious about about why I do what I do and why is it that I get pulled out of using my values, gut, heart to guide me and validate my choices. I want to follow my curiousity around what will facilitate me being more self-referencing.

A lineage of compassion, community and care.

I love this Danielle and feel a longing to write/explore in this way myself.
Thanks for the inspiration and insight.

Not dilulte my energy by working on too many tasks at once. I'm a super duper multit-tasker but I'm observing that I like the experience of more focus and the experience of completion.

One of my ways of coping with uber stress to encourage myself to dive into the emotions and allow what I know call, "the cry before the calm".

Hi,
I loved this. It totally inspires me to get myself to a thrift store. I too would love to know which store this was. I'm never really intentional when I go and often come out empty handed. I also appreciate the reminder about timeless quality. Merci!

This is a beautiful peice. I feel a twinge of recognition and know I need and want to allow deeper connection with a few in my life. Thank you.

EUREKA!!! The power of words, a name, a concept. Thank you Sarah and C&D for bringing SLOW FAMILY to my consciousness. It's what we've been moving toward and wanting more of. It helps me enormously to have this lable, name, umbrella, shingle.... why is that? .

I'm taking baby steps in this world and feel excited about what's to come.
This year I made pickles and relish for the first time and I LOVED it. I can't believe how satisfying it was. Thanks for the inspiration.

Monarch of the Glen on PBS Detroit, Fabulous BBC series set in modern rurual Scotland.

Home manager... I like that. Thx to C&D for this discovery. I too am at home, with a toddler and hoping to grow our family. I'm slowly connecting with other mamas whose core focus is the care of their kids, homes and family. I've always wanted this yet at am surprised at how slowly I'm sinking into it my role and really loving it for the special time in life it is and how fabulous it is that I'm living it. Perhaps it has to do with getting on the MamaTrain (ooooo, I like that too) a little later in life. Thanks for the inspiration Tsh. I'll be checking our your site some more and am going to create an inspiration board!

I have creative DNA?
Really? Promise?
Letting that alone sink in is worth the price of admission.

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I like to call people the day after being hosted for a meal and say thank you.

I love this piece. Thank you Rick. I feel inspired.
Whether its sustainability issues or parenting, I've been noticing my sense of struggle in shifting gears, doing it differently, running my own course yada yada. Your article spurred me to realize that I find it hard when I look for the world to mirror my choices. Of course there are many folks making the 'shift' but I don't see them when I look around, pick up the paper, listen to the news. I feel myself breathing easier when I look inside and self-reference vs seek external validation. OK, I feel better now.

I need a kleenex. Thank you Lucia for this great story. Funny, beautiful, raw. I have an almost 2 year old little girl and I too lost a baby that would have been born this month... and then another 6 months later. Here's hoping "Third time lucky" as it was with marriage proposals.

I have tears in my eyes. I am moved by the depth of love and the joy of life I read in your description of your mother as your role model. With every fibre of my being I hope my young daughter will find some inspiration in me. Thank you for sharing.

My husband Eric for having the courage to stop his dead-end career path and return to school full-time so our daughter can have a Papa who loves his job.

This is great Carrie. Sometimes all I want to do is prepare, cook and eat food slowly. I get resentful that such an important activity feels crammed in my day.

I've started doing the one serving and notice a difference in how I feel. My next area of attention is around how much I cook. Usually way more than needed for a meal. This is grand in someways b/c leftover are the perfect lunch for my daughter and I but it also creates the temptation for 2nds or 3rds! I see the connection to my childhood where there was always an overabundance of food . I think there was some unconscious fear based hoarding going on. My folks both were kids in wartime Europe.