Summer in the City!

I am so excited to be starting my Yoga Teacher Training in just 5 days... lucky for all the Simply. fans of the world, Joanna, my new partner in craft, is ready to take the wheel! Her first batch of Lavender soap is successfully curing in the basement, almost 100 bags of body polish line the shelves and body butter tins are stacked and ready to go!

I feel so honoured to be "passing the torch" to the third mom in the history of my company - I started simply. when I was trained by a mom-at-home who crafted soap...

Along the way I have had the ongoing help and support of a number of moms (my friends and family!) and it is amazing to me that I have this Circle of Women who are so enthusiastic and encouraging! It really speaks to me of the importance of human connection in this time of the "information age" - as I sit here blogging I imagine myself chatting over a cup of tea with my mom.

There is so much in my business that relates back to women and the connections we have with eachother - whether we know it or not! An example of this is the women we support in Togo - they are the primary caregivers for their families, and have a tradition of farming shea nuts to bring home income, but also to heal their communities. I have never met any of them, but we share a common goal - to work as part of a community for the greater good. In Togo, the communities I buy Shea Butter and Cocoa Butter from are building schools, digging wells and enabling their communities to continue a way of life that is healthy and connected to tradition.

Here in Toronto my community of women is doing the same - founding schools, starting businesses so they can be home with their families, and supporting a way of life that respects eachother and the planet upon which we dwell.

I am thankful for Simply. and what it has taught me, and I look forward to growing my business with Joanna, and with all of the women who I know, and don't know - we are all connected...

we all come from the Goddess
and to her we shall return
like a drop of rain
flowing to the ocean

hoof and horn
hoof and horn
all that dies
shall be reborn

corn and grain
corn and grain
all that falls
shall rise again!