GOING Fragrance Free In 23 Mother's Day, 2011: South Whidbey Tilth (Restrooms)

We've volunteered to supply and maintain the Freed-up Clean-up practices in the two restrooms at  South Whidbey Tilth.  The Farmers' Market is now officially happening, Sundays from 11:30 AM -3:30 PM.  Local organic farmers, vendors and educational tables and booths and a delicious choice of meals are being served up at our favorite neighborhood market.  We'll  have our Freed-up Clean-up practices of using Planet Ultra Unscented Dishsoap as the handwashing liquid in place, Sunday, May 8th ... what a great MOTHER'S DAY GIFT to mothers there! 

Pete and I arrived and planted ourselves on this island, a year ago (April, 2010).  South Whidbey Tilth Farmers' Market (held on Saturday) became our one and only safe-enough-for-us event.  We had been long on the road to the present life-of-more-and-better feelings.  It was the once a week experiences at the 'Tilth' that made my 'PLAN BE' a vibrating reality ... one that was, but was not yet, see-able.

FRAGRANCE FREE IN 23 Frees-up the Tilth Restrooms
May, 8, 2011

PLANET Ultra Dishsoap

will be the freed-up, no harm, no fragrance

HAND SOAP

in dispensers found in both So Whidbey Tilth restrooms

We'll Maintain & Clean 

the restrooms using

BAKING SODA

WHITE VINEGAR

&

PLANET Ultra Dishsoap

(just a dash)

LINK HERE http://www.planetinc.com/udl.htm to read THE SIMPLE & HARMLESS ingredients used in Planet Ultra Dishsoap.  This site includes more uses for this product.  We, Pete and I are not paid for naming this product; we use this product ... the only 'product' other than baking soda and vinegar(s) to wash our everything and ourselves.  There are other un-scented and chemical harmless or less harmfull product to be bought.  The EWG Website can give you lots of info and then, choose.  We use Planet because it does no harm to us, we tolerate it well; and it's doing no harm to Earth.

See you Sundays at our first FRAGRANCE FREE IN 23 Freed-up COMMUNITY Site!! 

Happy Mother's Day, Mothers and Mother Earth.

Do you have a Community Site wanting to be our next Freed-up Site?  Contact us, it costs but a jot, and counts for so much.

mokihanacalizarATgmailDOTcom

Progress with STEP 1: Notice ... Are you?

STEP 1:  NOTICE

Fragrance Free in 23 the blog and the mission, was birthed in time for Earth Day 2011 and our very first outing and educational table at the Bayview Earth Day, So. Whidbey Island.  The first two posts to "FF23" lay the groundwork for us and those two 'stories' remain the bones upon which we flesh our venture forward. 

TAKE FIVE is the simple to remember ditty we began and continue to sing ... a way to change the momentum in our old beliefs and thinking about being human and being humans who don't harm.   So, this is a check-in point.  Covering ground again, we look at:

STEP 1

NOTICE what you do with what you have, and why you do it.


This is all about you:  what you do; what you have, and why.  Everybody has stuff and that's where we had to start when life as we'd known it washed away like drawings in the sand. Our lessons have been tough, but they have honed us good and plenty, over and over again. 

This is THE step to FREED-UPness.  Take whatever time you need, but do make time to NOTICE and record what you discover.  Our experience has been ... don't act on what you find at this point.  Just notice.  It's very much  like the process of effective change-making found in wise traditions across the Earth:  AWARE, ACCEPT then ACT. 

What DO YOU DO?
God, I do a lot of things.  Answering that question would take ... well, more time than I have.

Just take 5 minutes.  What do you do with any 5 minutes in your day; the first 5 minutes of your day.


What DO YOU HAVE?
Geez, whaddaya mean, what do I have?

Just that! 

Like I said already ...

Just take 5 minutes, maybe those same 5 minutes of noticing what you do ... notice what you're doing with WHAT YOU HAVE.


Why DO YOU DO IT?
I'm starting to get the picture. 

The TAKE FIVE approach to Fragrance Free in 23(Two Thousand Twenty Three) begins with slowing down long enough to NOTICE what we do.  Hawaiians have an exquisite word for that, KULEANA.  Roughly translated it means "responsibility".  Seems to us, as we continue to live one Freed-up Day on this glorious Planet Earth:  our KULEANA starts with knowing the answers to those three questions. 

What if you started or spent 5 minutes (or more) to SHAMPOO YOUR HAIR ...

Here's an article written a few years ago by Bill Bunn from Calgary, Alberta.  He asked the question "What's really in your shampoo?" 

The article starts this way:

"There are two types of ingredients in shampoo. One type cleans your hair. The other type strokes your emotions. I'm holding a bottle of Pantene Pro V, one of the world's most popular shampoos. Of the 22 ingredients in this bottle of shampoo, three clean hair. The rest are in the bottle not for the hair, but for the psychology of the person using the shampoo. At least two-thirds of this bottle, by volume, was put there just to make me feel good..."

Link to the entire article: http://www.salon.com/news/environment/good_life/2009/08/13/shampoo/

To find out what INGREDIENTS ARE IN WHAT YOU USE click

It's something to think about the next time you shampoo your hair, and then there's this

Plan "Be" Part II ... BELIEVE it BEFORE you see it

Wonderful, positive steps are now part of our 'visible' reality ... that "I can see it, they can see it" reality that we humans often mistake for the ONLY reality.  The New Moon in Aries, the sign and potent energy new moon of new beginnings and new stories is half-way through its month-long cycle of action Jackson.  I've taken to deciding to choose better-feeling thoughts consciously and consistently.  Deciding that I could believe the Earth Day Celebration was some thing I COULD do is a wowser example of 'Believe it BEFORE you see it!"  We have been on a long journey of swhirling and disconnected reality and more than enough suffering.  Other blogs, now at rest, have filled with those stories.  They served us by finding out in oh so many ways what we did not want.  Today, I am in a different place and appreciation and believing is fueling our good news.  Our good news today will gear us for the expanded good we can't yet see.

So ... this post is Plan "Be"  Part II ... BELIEVE it BEFORE you see it.

Where is she going with this?  (I often wonder myself) 


First, to believe it before yah see it. Start with what I do see as BEAUTIFUL, 'AS I DREAMED IT COULD and IS' stuff. 

• A GOOD dentist appointment HAPPENED.  Yeh, anyone can relate to that statement!  Who loves dentists?  Well, folks with MCS often can't do dentists.  I haven't been to a dentist I could afford; in an office that was not impossible to breathe in; with a chair-side manner that spoke "kind and caring" for many years.  Yesterday I met, sat in a chair and was engaged with a young dentist and his assistant who spoke that "kind and caring" language.  I can afford to pay for some of the treatment I need, with due diligence and wise decisions.  THIS IS A VERY MAJOR 'Beautiful' thing.  I will need to decide the next steps and dates for work, and I get to have options, I believed it before I met young Kenneth Killpack DDS and his assistant Tom, and front desk woman Angela.  Now, it's happening. 
• MASSAGE.  I had my first massage of the year.  Another MAJOR 'Beautiful' thing.  I met "M" last summer.  Over the months Pete and I have gotten to know her more and more.  Pete does fix'ems for "M" and in return, there is $ and trades ... like this massage.  "M's" home is a mostly-benign alternative to 'usual' structure and her willingness to make adustments to the conditions I need to stay in her presence and her home add to the 'BEAUTIFUL' thing experience.  A long, slow and loving chat and massage (while she used my organic coconut oil) added to my "Plan 'BE'" ... I believed I could get a massage.  Armed as I was with my own sheet, air-out yoga mat and my mask ... I was able to be massaged and cared for withOUT using any of my arm-full of 'Be Prepared' stuff.
• DINNER INVITATION FOR EASTER.  This is another big step in my Plan 'Be"  Part II.  Easter Sunday Dinner is something we haven't celebrated or expected to be 'able' to enjoy for many years.  Things are changing.  We're been invited.  Pete and I talked about it.  We accepted.  We're going to do some more talking and preparing for the inside-event, and then the next experience in our Plan "Be" will unfold.

BE-4 TIME(this expression is something I haven't heard in my head for a very long time.  But, in Hawaii, my grandpa and the elders often talked about 'before time', times they remember and that we young kids couldn't see)

 ... My Journey here to a place where positive healing experiences happen more often began (and continues) with knowing what I don't want.  Here is a short, but potent piece of a letter written by a woman living with MCS.  I received it through the grapevine and offer it as a gift of education.  A beginning for some, a continuation for others.  BELIEVE IT BEFORE you see it!  Becoming Fragrance Free in 2023 will mean attending to this kind of education from folks living with the affects of a world that's not FF. 'TAKING 5' Steps in your own dear life will include Noticing things like this kind of request from a friend, or a friend yet to be.  Read this and see where it fits into your journey:

B R  writes

...which leads me to my final point about this: most folks with MCS are in a constant struggle to navigate our daily lives. if we are able to go out, we face a continuous barrage of life-threatening chemical exposures. because MCS affects not only our bodies but our cognitive abilities and emotions, we often cannot express or identify that we are being made sick by one particular product someone is using. so if we do take the time to let you know that something you’re doing is making us sick, please respect that and don’t make us tell you twice, or g-d forbid, more than twice. it’s incredibly painful for us to find that people who purport to be our friends or allies, who express the desire to be near us, do not take our basic needs seriously and even cause us harm after we have expressed that there is a problem. if you are struggling with a solution, please let us know so we can help you resolve it, or if that’s not possible, so we can stay a safe distance from you until you get it resolved...

Thank you JT and DP and DR for extending the grapevine :)))