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Pilot the dog with apples

Smile files, intrinsic marketing, and fall 🍏

October 3, 2021

Gouache and ink of farm fields

Filling empty spaces

April 10, 2021

New Year Vision Grid for You

New Year Vision Grid for You

December 31, 2020

Thoughtful, feel-good reads to cheer your winter

Thoughtful, feel-good reads to cheer your winter

December 14, 2020

Endings and beginnings of creative endeavors

Endings and Beginnings

November 6, 2020

Messy notebooks help get a creative project started

Two simple things to get a creative project started

November 6, 2020

Dust and Mud | Dog-approved (and color-coordinated) fiction for you!

A novel for you!

October 2, 2020

Grow Your Dream

Grow Your Dream With A Little Extra Support

April 20, 2020

New Year’s Greetings + Important Reminder

December 30, 2017

Collections

organized mutterings

Creativity

inspiration to fuel your healthy creative habit

Simplicity

thoughts on a simple & sustainable life

Good Work

tips & tools for doing independent creative work you love

Behind the scenes

what's happening around here

Want to support a good cause today? Consider don

Want to support a good cause today?

Consider donating to Fertile GroundWorks, a nonprofit that encourages, empowers, and teaches community members like me to grow healthy, nutritious food, organically and sustainably.

Today the Community Health & Education Foundation (CHEF) will generously match $1 for every $2 donated up to $5K for participating non-profits.

Donate here: https://chefgivingcommunity.org/GT2021

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Happy fall! I sure hope you’re doing well out th

Happy fall! I sure hope you’re doing well out there. Musings on smile files, intrinsic marketing, and fall are up at sarahmattern.com/blog

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Today must be Brag About My Clients Day because I

Today must be Brag About My Clients Day because I have another recommendation for you. Julian Stitick founded @thecastironbabe with a mission. She aims to extend her professional coaching career to help simplify family life and bring delicious food, positivity, and life skills to all. Her kind heart and deep soul are evident in all she does, including her YouTube show, which includes segments on kid-friendly cooking, travel, and strategies for happy families. There’s lots more in the works, so if this resonates, follow @thecastironbabe and sign up at castironbabe.com. Cast Iron Babe also supports the good work of No Kid Hungry, helping ensure every child in the US has access to healthy food.

If you’re looking for a wonderful gift (for your

If you’re looking for a wonderful gift (for yourself or a favorite person), consider @mydreamseventeen for beautiful candles and soaps. Client and now friend David Fischer makes these by hand using highest quality ingredients. My previous Dream 17 candle lasted us years and still has a light, lovely fragrance. The wooden wick makes soft, comforting crackling sounds. David recently relaunched his web store and has new candles (like this one) on offer. The best part? He gives a whopping 10% to his favorite charity, Africa Connect!

I did a thing! 🙃 Thanks @indie_reader. Intervie

I did a thing! 🙃 Thanks @indie_reader. Interview here: https://bit.ly/369wgJD

Also - somewhat related - check out this quote from a recent article by Dr. Jonathan Foley about greenhouse agriculture: “...there is a lot of publicity around ‘vertical farms’ — which grow food in artificial indoor environments. While some people think these will help feed the world (spoiler: they won’t), they use enormous amounts of resources and money to produce fairly-expensive crops, mostly herbs and salad greens. Most worrying, vertical farms use vast amounts of energy. Unless they are powered by renewables (ironically, using solar panels to power indoor lights is using the sun to replace…the sun), this will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, it’s not clear whether vertical farms actually save land when you include the space required for their tremendous energy demands.”

More on that here: https://bit.ly/3qFm1pQ

One more day left! If you're in the vicinity of Li

One more day left! If you're in the vicinity of Livermore, consider ordering your spring garden veggie seedlings from Fertile GroundWorks and help support their good work feeding people and educating backyard gardeners. Order now and pick up and pay for your seedlings in April. The plant sale is here: fertilegroundworks.org/plant-sale

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