Katie Cassady

Wash and reuse at unexpectedhoney.com

Wash & re-use

Upon inquiring about the process of washing her ziplock bags, one of the sweetest Franciscans I ever met asked me, sarcastically, how else I hoped to get to heaven? And she’s right, I think–maybe not about bag washing as salvific, but as… penitential. There is something penitential about washing these bags which can be so

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Recycling bags at UnexpectedHoney.com

recycle ’em

Perhaps the most mundane and efficient way to reduce waste, is not to pick it up in the first place. Plastic bags accompany nearly every shopping trip we take–some stores who take their work especially seriously, will double bag all of your bags. Leaving you with a quickly-mulitiplying load of bags that aren’t good for

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Get Creative Recycling at UnexpectedHoney.com

get creative

I am that old woman in the room who save tissue paper, ribbons & gift bags (I draw the line at wrapping paper–I have standards, you know!). It will probably embarrass my children and family for decades to come that their gifts and the gifts we give their friends, come wrapped in newspaper, grocery bags

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cones, autumn, green

Sabbath Prayer

Generous and loving God I praise you for the gift of rest offered. May I embrace the treasure of an unhurried day A day that unfolds peacefully. That I might accept it for exactly what it is exactly what I need;  a gift offered. Lord you are the Giver of All Good gifts I pray that you find me

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