Celebrating a Year of Fair Trade

Fair Trade Friends,

My, my how time flies! This time last year I was scrubbing floors, sorting through inventory, organizing papers, chatting with vendors and new customers—Oh, wait, that’s what I’m still doing.

We opened our doors one year ago and it has been an amazing year! But what I was doing last year, while it is still the same in many ways, is so very different these days. New customers have become friends. Vendors have become colleagues. Papers have become tools. Scrubbing floors has become prayer.

Another life-lesson I’ve learned from fair trade: Our work may not change, but with fair trade the HOW changes, the WHY changes. People’s work—including my own—is held with care and respect. Work has the purpose of expanding justice while delighting in creations.

And your work? How is it different and in what ways is it the same today as it was this time last year? Has your purpose changed? Perhaps these are useful questions for you as they are for me.

I hope you’ll join me in celebrating this year. For some, it has been a difficult year financially. For some, it has been an exhilarating year with new possibilities. For most, it has been a little bit of both. And so—We celebrate all that life has brought our way this year—including YOU!

We’re having a Two-Day Party at the store:

Sunday & Monday, September 5 & 6

Noon—6pm

Animal balloons, Henna art, Face painting, Yummy fair trade food

AND

  You’ll want to Sign on for Peace on the totally cool paper mache globe that the Cultures of the World kids made to enter a chance to win the Haitian metal sculpture, “Living Peace.”                             

Wherever you are, you can be with us online. Shop and enjoy a 15% Anniversary Discount using code: Peace10 through the month of September.

With much love and grace,

Janet