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Schools, Food, Community
Friends,I encourage you to join our group of practitioners, parents and advocates for Schools, Food and Community -- an inspiration and action-packed day and a half of panels, workshops, resources,...
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SPRING Into Action....
Welcome to Spring, which officially began this morning.And here's inviting us to do wonderful, meaningful things, this season...and always!Warmly and looking forward,Wendy Dubit aka Biodiesel Babe.
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SxSWente
Friends,I am fresh back from the SXSW music fest in Austin, Texas. And I am rejuvenated, inspired, impressed!I was there thanks to the exquisite Heidi Richman, Program Director of Wente's Discover the...
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Those Who Prey Together....
“Those who prey together stay together!”So claims Green Chimneys, one of my favorite organizations.And they should know! For 60 years, Green Chimneys (GC) has been a leader in animal-assisted therapy....
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A Call to Open Farms!
Friends,I could not be more excited about what's in the works!As a first call-to-action from The Renewables: Thinkable is Doable!, we are busy building out A Call to Open Farms.A Call to Open Farms...
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Catching Whiff! & Towards SCENTworld Expo....
Friends,I met Russell Brumfield at Martin Lindstrom’s BrandSense Symposium a few Springs back.We guessed in tandem as to what made the box of Crayola’s in question so clearly counterfeit: Smell! The...
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Don’t Just SMELL the Flowers
Next time, don’t just SMELL the flowers. Touch them with your lips and fingertips, and provide a fragrant and multi-faceted feast for SKIN...our largest sensory organ.ENJOY!!!
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Eating in Color
I was so lucky to be able to give a talk to The Color Association of the United States this week on the importance of Eating in Color.It is not only possible to eat with the eyes: Sensorially and...
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Refresh My Memory....
All I have to do is to hear the pop of a Champagne cork (which I’m about to!) and so many memories come rushing back....Of good work,deep play and the way I plan to “refresh my memory” today and every...
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WineSmelling 101
The 2009 Complete Wine Course is out. And in it is a chapter that Kevin Zraly and I co-authored on the incredible sense of SMELL, and how key smell is to our enjoyment of wine…and all else in life.How...
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Great Minds Drink Alike?
For some, it's has been a year of ups and downs....But whether these holidays find you with your glass half empty, half full or both, we hope you have something in it that you love.And we hope that you...
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2009, Etched in Snow
Friends,May 2009 usher in a happy, healthy, hopeful and wine-filled time.And may it find us sharing many a fine glass together.Warmly and looking forward,Wendy
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What to Wear for Candelmas
Happy Groundhog Day! Don't forget to CELEBRATE Winter. HOPE for Spring. ENJOY all of the Seasons. REMEMBER to PLAY!
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All That You Want to Be...
Friends,These days, many things are reminding me of a children’s book I’m planning to write: “All That You Want to Be You Already Are!”“All That You Want to Be” began with the realization that my most...
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Sense of Proportion
When I can, so as to keep the senses fresh, I shop with love and alacrity. I practice fridge, pantry and plate fengh shui -- arranging foods I enjoy in ways and places that please me. I eat in color,...
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Taste of Terroir
Among the many things I LOVE about wine?How much complexity and magnificence it can contain.Each finely crafted wine tells the story of a time and a place, a region and its soil, vines and their age,...
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Spring Is....
"Spring is in the cock's crow, in the smell of freshly turned earth. It is no longer wise for the nature lover to procrastinate."So says a favorite, unattributed quote that I found in the early days of...
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Lights Out for Earth Hour
Friends,Because I was powered down earlier for Earth Hour, and so as to conserve resources and share a truly great experience again, I am repurposing from last year's post:I seriously need reading...
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The Wine Workout:Tastings to Train Senses & Brain
It’s a great time to be drinking wine! Never has the quality been higher, the selection greater, the prices more reasonable.And it’s good for us, too. Among wine’s ever-growing attributes, studies show...
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Spring Giddiness
Spring GiddinessBy Rumi, as translated by Coleman BarksToday, like every other day, we wake up emptyand frightened. Don't open the door to the studyand begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.Let...
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Linked to Linden:A Fragrance Takes Heart
In Central Park, on Mother's Day, after a solid week of rain, the lindens and lilacs are leafing and flowering out, and I am in a special state of Spring Giddiness reserved especially for this time of...
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Peace! Love! Et Le Beaujolais Est Arivée!
Hooray!November 19th heralded one of my happiest, hippiest Beaujolais Days, THANKS to the families Duboeuf and Deutsch, the brilliance of M. Young Communications, a gathering of great friends, Bistro...
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Senses Enumerators on the Wine Trail
The Senses Bureau and friends have been hard and fast at work on the wine trails of this world...all of which seem to find their way to New York at some point.First, a shout out to MMMMiguel Martin of...
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Senses Takers at Toy Fair
When UnderWoman ran into Pretty Ugly towards the end of Toy Fair, she asked: “Are we having fun yet?” “Lady! Does it look like I’m having fun?”In fact, UnderWoman was being facetious…and knows that the...
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