In meditation this morning, I prayed for guidance for my life. The question came, "What do you really want? What do you want guidance for" I had to stop and ponder because I didn't have specific answers. I do know I seem to find glimpses of the way forward in my life and then I get distracted. So the real question is what am I passionate about and what do I want to create in my life?

I am passionate about the environment. There is a lot of talk on both sides of climate change. I don't know the answers but everytime I read about more pollution and poisoning of the water, air and earth, I feel more frightened and angry. Whether climate change is man made isn't as important as the fact we seem to be destroying our own home.

I am passionate about our government seeming to be in the hands of big corporations. We no longer have a government by the people, for the people. It is more a government by the corporations and for the corporations. The net result is a broken economy and a broken food system.

I don't believe change will occur within or come from our government. I believe change will come as people decide enough is enough. Learning to limit our own spending, buying less of the latest trinkets will help. Learning to grow more of our own food and sourcing the rest of what we eat from our local farmers will help. All of these things will start to take the power away from big business and put it back in the hands of the people.

So, what is my part. I want to learn:
- how to grow more of our own food
- how to create optimum health in natural ways
- how to produce our own energy
- how to best care for the animals and earth in our care
- how to source clothing from sustainable sources

And, I want to teach others what I am learning. In this way, I can be a part of the solution. Or, as Mahatma Gandhi said, "be the change you want to see in the world."