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Eid 2009 brought warm company, good food, prayers of thanksgiving, and the always popular henna party…

I found that Henna Muse is no longer selling henna powder. I loved her triple blend of Rajastani, Yemeni, and Jamilla.  However, she does recommend another site: Henna Sooq, which also has a focus on henna as a natural hair coloring, conditioning treatment.  There is still the Henna Page, too, for lots of tips, how-t0, designs, etc.

This article from TIME magazine was a delight to read!  As an urban gardening, whole foods, off-the-earth sort of person myself, I am really excited to see such sustainable concepts hitting mainstream attention with growing frequency!

Urban Animal Husbandry – TIME Magazine 17 Aug 2009

TIME Magazine Urban Animal Husbandry

An article in this weeks issue hits home not just with American eating and grocery shopping, but health and financial ills as well.

Getting Real About the High Price of ‘Cheap’ Food – TIME magazine 21 Aug 2009

Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won’t bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench. He’s fed on American corn that was grown with the help of government subsidies and millions of tons of chemical fertilizer. When the pig is slaughtered, at about 5 months of age, he’ll become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting more than two-thirds of the population. And when the rains come, the excess fertilizer that coaxed so much corn from the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico, where it will help kill fish for miles and miles around. That’s the state of your bacon — circa 2009.

I enjoyed this article. Someone smarter and more credentialed than me has confirmed my belief that we can just let babies be babies, tots be tots. I’ll gladly continue to pass on all the “educational” rigor of infanthood and my-baby-is-so-smart mommy conversations.

New York Times: Your Baby is Smarter Than You Think

Although, these may be necessary. ; )

Nerdy Baby ABC Flash Cards from and by Tiffany Ard, a nerdily awesome artist.

We recently returned from camping in Northern Minnesota with my dad and brother.  An old junker of a camper, lots of mosquitos, camp fire cooking, and a lot of smiles. You can click a photo to see it larger.

As my friend, Kate, says, “Good thing my lifestyle doesn’t include eating in fancy restaurants or shoe shopping! I just like to walk in the woods!” Me, too! But I’ll take the shoes, too! ; )

After blogging for years over at Finding Salihah on blogger, I’m moving into a new home on WordPress!