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Looking at the World through a Rose-Colored Glass

Optimism, joy, chuckles, bliss. It seems that so many places we turn, people are talking about the elusive concept of happiness. We can speculate at the reasons; a tormented economy, the sandwich generation, increasing social pressures.  I’ve read unfortunate tales about the increase in the use of antidepressants in adults and in children. Frankly, I think happiness is a difficult thing to calculate. How do we really know of its existence or its intensity unless we’ve measured it against sadness?

Rose Colored Smoothie

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by Tammy on November 8, 2010  •  Permalink
Posted in Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, food, inspiration, leadership, learning, life, love, recipe, renewal, success, Wellness
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Posted by Tammy on November 8, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/11/08/looking-at-the-world-through-a-rose-colored-glass/

There’s No Inflation Unless You Eat

My brother in law is a cracker jack financial advisor who has been helping hundreds of fortunate clients manage the recession. The title of his blog this week was “No Inflation Unless You Eat“. Apparently, the Fed omits the price of food when calculating the Core CPI but as Jay points out, “most of us don’t live in a core world.” I can appreciate his issue with the numbers and the underlying increase in food costs but it also caused me to think about all sorts of food and income related issues.

Bloomberg Inflation Chart

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by Tammy on October 31, 2010  •  Permalink
Posted in Buying Local, community, Community leadership, food, leadership, recipe
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Posted by Tammy on October 31, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/10/31/price-of-food-inflation-eat/

Do You Have the Huevos?

Our eggs were delivered on Thursday. We received 3 dozen precious eggs of varying sizes and colors in unmatching recycled cartons. Actually, our egg lady delivers to one of my company offices and colleagues on their way to my building for a meeting are kind enough to schlep them along. They put them in the fridge and someone always puts a sticky note on my light switch that says DON’T FORGET EGGS.

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by Tammy on October 24, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tammy on October 24, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/10/24/courage-in-the-workplace/

Telling Our Stories

“When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know one another. How can they know one another if they have forgotten or never learned one another’s stories? If they do not know one another’s stories, how can they know whether or not to trust one another? People who do not trust one another do not help one another, and moreover, they fear one another.” (Wendell Berry, What Are People For)

 

Wendell Berry: Farmer, Writer, Academic - photo courtesy of thebridgepai.com

 

 

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by Tammy on October 17, 2010  •  Permalink
Posted in agriculture, books, Civil Discourse, community, Community leadership, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, food, inspiration, leadership, learning, recipe
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Posted by Tammy on October 17, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/10/17/telling-our-stories-humanities/

Talking with Our Mouths Full

What a couple of weeks these have been! My middle guy just returned from a school trip. I was at a company meeting for three overnights. Upon returning home, my husband had an evening meeting and there was the annual dinner for our Economic Council. I hope it doesn’t sound like a complaint as we enjoy an abundant life but what do I really miss when our schedule fills up like this? Dinner time!

 

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by Tammy on October 9, 2010  •  Permalink
Posted in Civil Discourse, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, eating seasonally, food, inspiration, learning, life, love, recipe, success, support
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Posted by Tammy on October 9, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/10/09/preserving-family-dinnertime-conversation/

Where Actions Speak Louder than Words

I think Mark Twain had something to do with that title quote but I’m unable to find a source for the saying “do as I say and not as I do”. The latter is often referred to as a statement in hypocrisy. Yet Dr. Samuel Johnson, a moralist and great contributor to English literature in the 1700s cautioned readers to  tread lightly when charging others with hypocrisy.

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by Tammy on October 4, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tammy on October 4, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/10/04/developing-an-exercise-plan/

Eggplant and the Five Freedoms

Eggplant is in season.  As a family that eats locally and seasonally that means that we must embrace eggplant. And while I really enjoy this dense meaty vegetable, I have a very hard time selling it at my dinner table.  This past week, my curry with eggplant had the guys leaving skid marks in the driveway on their way to In and Out Burger.

The Inspiration

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by Tammy on September 26, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tammy on September 26, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/09/26/eggplant-and-five-freedoms-of-the-first-amendmen/

Tammy’s Top Ten (t3 report) Reasons to Become a Vegetarian

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Albert Einstein

 

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by Tammy on September 18, 2010  •  Permalink
Posted in Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, food, food industry, t3 Report, Wellness
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Posted by Tammy on September 18, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/09/18/tammys-top-ten-the-t3-report-reasons-to-become-a-vegetarian/

It’s Only Funny Until Someone Gets Hurt

With the ever expanding plethora of iphone apps, my kids are often downloading something. There are some very useful things like the app that adds a tip and splits the check by 33 diners and very cool things like the ocarina. Recently, they stumbled upon fatbooth. It allows one to take an ordinary mug short and add weight to it and I must say, the finished product is quite believable.

 

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by Tammy on August 17, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tammy on August 17, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/08/17/childhood-obesity-ten-10-recipes/

This is National Farmers Market Week

There is encouraging news coming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Today we have 6,132 farmers markets. That’s a 16 % increase over 2009 and a marked increase since the USDA started tracking. The USDA has declared August 1-7 as National Farmers Market Week for 2010.

Olympia Farmers Market

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by Tammy on August 6, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tammy on August 6, 2010

https://agrigirl.com/2010/08/06/national-farmers-market-week-friendship/

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