Just Trade Day
When I left today to take Prasad and Kranthi from India to the Fair Trade stores in Milwaukee I forgot my cell phone. Also since I spent the day with them and tonight with my friend and her brother from Sierra Leone there has been no time to check my computer emails. Unfortunately also there was no garden work today. So with no cell phone, computer use till now or garden work or significant time spent outside I still had a busy but natural day.
Listening to Prasad talk about Gandhi and the living of a holistic lifestyle represented by the products from India, discovery some new secrets of cooking from Kranthi, and listening to Dave at Amarenth café talk about local development in way that did Gandhi proud while snacking on some delicious bakery products was most enjoyable and educational. Dave had never heard Prasad talk about Gandhi but was living the lifestyle. Along with meeting my friend’s brother from Freetown in Sierra Leone and meeting so many good persons at the Fair Trade Stores deepened my awareness of how we are all one, brothers and sisters.
So many of the values of sharing of wealth, working for the common good, oneness of humanity were shared by the Indians, Americans and Africans in my life today. There is so much unity in all of us, such a common understanding of local development that I moved through the day like a butterfly floating from flower to flower in the garden.
I cannot process my day simply but can let it slowly seep in. I did receive, when I had my cell phone back, a few calls from friends suffering from illnesses, and tomorrow catching up with them and working in the garden will give me the time to slow down and let today sink in. This was truly just a day.
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