Tuesday, March 02, 2004


rad tantra returns!

long-time readers will remember my experience at the mark whitwell workshop. well, now you can groove yourself to the rad tantra. . .

mark whitwell will be back at be yoga downtown this tuesday, march 9th, from 7-9pm for a special one-day only class on yoga tantra. it will blow your mind.

i might even be able to make it myself!

and now, let's move on to the topics discussed in the comments recently. they deserve real space, so here it is:

on tooth whitening: well, i don't use it. maybe i should. i don't worry about it.

but as long-time readers may recall, my dentist whitens her teeth and then drinks her coffee through a straw. whatever works, right?

as for the question: what is fair-trade coffee, ah! it is one response to the world-price depression known as the coffee crisis. it's a scheme to ensure that coffee farmers are paid at least a living wage for their beans.

it costs about US$0.90 to grow a pound of coffee, but often coffee has sold for less than US$0.70 a pound! obviously that's a recipe for disaster and human misery.

and this living-wage coffee price has been determined to be about US$1.26 a pound. dear bccy pal kimberly easson of the certifying agency transfair usa talks a lot about the importance of fair-trade as a partial solution to a global problem. and she makes sense. . .

run over to her website and read all about it. . .

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