Spring has sprung! I may have ‘reached that age’ were I appreciate each spring just a little more (or maybe it’s my recent memory of the brutally cold winter), but the colorful spring buds are making me extremely happy. The resilience of nature inspires me to be more flexible, both physically (with yoga) and in other ways. As a hard-core-greenie I tend to assume people know as much, or care as much, as I do about cleaning up our environment and sometimes I get a little righteous over eco issues. I am a passionate person and desperately want everyone to care about our beautiful and sacred home (Earth). 

Ms-Green-Bossy-Pants is my new nickname (♥Tina Fey).  

 The recent debate over the higher cost of green products in this economy does not take the bigger picture into consideration. I believe being exposed to toxic chemicals in everything from cleaning products to food (i.e. BPA in canned foods) has much greater health risks, both short and long term. Besides, the solution is easy - do things the old-fashioned way - organically and naturally! Lemons, vinegar, baking soda and other natural cleaning products are inexpensive and effective. Fresh food is much healthier and tastier than canned. To me, doing things in sync with nature has always made good sense, and living in a healthy non-toxic home… PRICELESS! 

 My next goal is trying to eliminate plastic from my life (admittedly no easy task)!

However, sometimes it’s easy being green, and cleaning in a healthy way is one of them.

 Here’s to a simpler, cleaner life, (except I am not writing from a mega mansion in Beverly Hills, but Thank you Laurie David for also being an eco-maniac). 

Happy Clean Green Home Blessings, ~ Cheryl Terrace, VITAL DESIGN LTD 

 The process of house-cleaning one's cluttered "furnished soul," as Cummings would put it, involves throwing open the doors and windows to the tentative, "perhaps hand" of spring, which glides in,

 arranging and changing placing

carefully there a strange

thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully  ~ E. E. CUMMINGS