Our Lives and Our World

Like most people, I want to have a good life. I like to dress myself up beautifully and elegantly, I enjoy healthy food and fine dining, I am fascinated to make my home look like an art gallery, and I love to travel around the world to see places and learn different cultures.

Like most people, I care about our world. I like to live in a world where there is more justice and less poverty, where the waters are pure, the fields are green, and food is grown with natural substances, where people appreciate arts and cultures, and live in harmony and unity.

I often asked myself: what can I do to combine my talents and passions to make a difference? Can I live good and live well? Now time has come and the answer is: Yes, we can live a quality and healthy lifestyle with good taste, and at the same time, support the issues of fair trade, organic production and green undertaking in our daily life, simply by making the following choices:

When picking up my next fashion and accessories, I know I am not only showcasing my exquisite taste and intrinsic sense of style, but also making a choice to select items with natural fabric and jewelry made by artists who are being paid fair wages.

Make a deliberate effort to eat organic food with plenty of vegetables and fruits, because I am not only conscious of my own health, but also the health of our earth. By choosing to favor healthy diet, we can help to keep our environment pure and wholesome towards a sustainable future.

When it comes to my home, I can use renewable energy supply, solar power, or even bio-feul, and yet to make it as tasteful as a museum. We can enhance the home environment without exploiting the world environment.

We can live a beautiful life with a beautiful purpose. Like most people, I want to live a good life. And, at the same time, I would like to see the sky bluer; I would like to see the rivers purer; I would like to see the mountains greener; and I would like to see the earth younger!

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Follow Your Heart

A special gift received on my birthday from my beloved husband:

What is creativity?
An open heart and mind -
The willingess to take a chance
and see what you can find.

It's cherishing the beauty
and the joys of simple things,
Embracing all the mystery
in the change and growth life brings....

It's visions of the future
linked with wisdom of the past,
Ideas that need some time to grow
and dreams that take shape fast.

It's listening to your inner truth,
It's play and laughter, too,
And all the special gifts
within unique, creative you.

Your were created with a beautiful purpose,
With dreams that are all your own to do anything you can imagine.
Hope you always remember what a special personal you are
in this world... and in mine.

-- Emily Matthews

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The Face of A Tree

A Tree in Monteray Bay, California

Copyright (c) 2005 Helen Wang

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I Ask....

I asked the dawn: “Where is the dewdrop that wet my lips last night and was suddenly gone before the sunrise?”

The dawn smiled: ‘It’s in the lightness of breezes and fragrance of flowers.”

I asked breezes and flowers: “What is the color of my love and that shall never fade?”

The breezes and flowers whispered: “It's the color of the Spring that is dancing on the hills.”

I asked the hills: “How many more peaks and valleys on my path before I reach the blue sky?”

The hills echoed: “As many as you can endure until your inner and outer strengths lift you high.”

I asked the sky: “Why did the most innocent eyes, that are as pure as you, have to see the agony of death?”

The sky wept: “The eyes of the innocent see beyond death – they see the ocean.”

I asked the ocean: “Where is the vastness of your mercy now that I only taste the bitterness in you?”

The ocean sighed: “Without bitterness, how would you know the sweetness of joy?”

Finally, I asked God: “What is the happiness of life when it is full of tribulation?”

God answered: “The meaning of life is rejoicing in the face of adversity.”

-- Dedicated to my friend Jennifer and others who face the great difficulties in life with amazing strength and grace.

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