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BABY AND CHILDCARE – more green trends

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 | Our Best Advice | Comments Off

models and fashionistas Bel Bambini's Kady and Kody Lin - photo: courtesy ClassicKids

Increasingly Personal Assistants, Nannies, and those doing Housekeeper-Childcare have expertise with GREEN care for babies, toddlers, and children of all ages. We’ve posted great TIPS in Our Best Advice you can find on our SITEMAP. I’m a firm believer that less is more for childcare. When I lived in Bali I quickly learned that cotton sarongs covers clothing needs for everyone from infancy to adulthood, and children are raised with minimal fuss, without “baby essentials”. Asia is trading a simple life for our luxury wasteful lifestyle. TIP – If we set the trends, let’s buy less “stuff” (whether luxury or basics), and give give give (I’m really trying to get this across) to charities and Goodwill Industries.

photo: courtesy of Oscar and Belle

Because humans need a range of creative expression I include luxury goods in our posts for Clients and Jobseekers. Let’s do it GREEN and Eco Friendly. Bel Bambini (which means “beautiful babies”) is a top clothing line in the infant, toddler, and maternity market. Kristina Lin offers nursery furnishings with her modern tastes and stylish sensibilities, that are also safe, functional, and environmentally friendly. This online store provides a one-stop parenting and concierge resource with a complete range of in-store services. See their Eco Friendly selections. Another collection for organic little girls attracting VIP Clients is by Whitten Grey, who’s modern look is making inroads into kids high end style and trends. Try Oscar and Belle, a great online all organic store that also has Gift Registry and Gift Certificates. Tel A Friend about our TIPS.

Purchase from companies like Target which makes an effort to stock ecco friendly products, but demand they grow the organic and eco friendly products they carry. Keeping pressure on big stores by using power of the checkbook creates fastest change for social issues. Browse The Green Life Eco Store for great products with a wide range of gift choices. Check out their The Laundress cleaning products too. I’ve posted several wonderful cleaning TIPS using kitchen items as natural products you can easily make. If you’re up for reading tongue-in-cheek reasons why you don’t need those (so called) baby care essentials, I suggest browsing EcoChildsPlay on reducing baby gear waste.

Final TIP – The Heart guides and fulfills our path. Take a moment If you find yourself getting impatient, irritated, or tired, to center back in your heart. Peace will flow from you, to all who are with you in that environment. The mind is a trickster (don’t listen to that nonsense chatter) Using your heart’s wisdom is an anciently proved path to Peace and Happiness. Contact us and send us your TIPS!

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VIP Clients – A Tribute To Lena Horne

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 | Our Best Advice | Comments Off

LENA HORNE – A Tribute

TIP – Before anything else today, see Lena Horne singing Stormy Weather.

the Quintessential singer/actress Lena Horne

The performance from the 1943 film starring Lena Horne, which is her signature song from a career that spanned decades through what we now call ‘extreme weather’, must be listened to, heard fully, and played again to appreciate the heights she reached. It is a spiritual outcry, a prayer, as well as a testimonial to the travails of life. I wish the video showed the dance number that comes after, worth getting the movie if you can. Share with others to lift and deepen the heart’s understanding and compassion, for the terrible History this country carries still to date and one woman’s fragile yet fearless humanity in dealing with it. Above all, as Lena’s voice taught us, never lose the heart connection that pours out love.

Ms. Horne cannot be categorized, although many try. Her range was beyond identity (which doesn’t govern who we are at all), and it was her challenge to transcend the racial divide of her time against ignorance that ruled. Amazingly, these issues still rankle into the 21st Century, with “Old School” demographic, younger gens are in the flow of community and look upon it as old school ignorance.

everlasting Lena Horne with her Quintessential Voice

Some Americans were shocked when seeing this stunning Actress’s photos in revealing clothing worn back then. Nowadays, we think nothing of it, this dress is beautifully elegant. I recall the first time seeing the magnificent LENA HORNE, who died last week and passed into the Spirit Hall Of Fame (the only one there really is), at the physical age of 93.  She sang — and, it took my breath away. I was riveted by her profound presence as well as her voice, this was someone highly tuned. And those eyes! Lena’s eyes glistened. They held promises of a far greater mystery then her voice or lyrics would ever reveal about her, the brilliant Artist she was. People called her Ms. Horne, not Lena, out of the deep respect she invoked.

Among other things, she was the quintessential embodiment of “all woman”, deep courage and passion, delicate looking but fearlessly proud, and something more, ephemeral, beyond description. I was too young to understand racial issues and the political storm brewing to ‘extreme weather’ levels when I first heard that voice. All I knew, and felt with every fiber of my being, was that she was a Queen, a Cosmic woman ahead of her time, presenting the Human Voice. Art, knows no gender, no race or time, no limits. Ms. Horne will be greatly missed, but her resonance remains eternal.

Alicia Keys left, Lena Horne on the right

Alicia Keyes will play Lena Horne in a movie about the movie legend, a tuff challenge despite Ms. Keyes formidable talent. TIP – What we need to remember above all, is one of her famous quotes: “it’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne

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