A hat tip to Laura for that title!
Well Happy New Year everyone. After a very long hiatus, as the title says, the hat is back. Let me just say that life in got in the way, and some tinkering had to be done.
One of the beautiful things that happened in the interim, I experienced a magic hat story of my own. Well two of them or maybe more. Whose counting? Kinds destroys the magic by keeping score. One was a karmic situation which turned out to be a real head shaker. Someday I will write a Greek myth about it.
Another bit of magic, was a topic found me. To be honest, I had no idea where this blog was going when I started it. In the course of finding stories about positive change, fate conspired with some of the lessons of my life, along with some of my topics of interest. In August 2010 I tried to get a Pepsi Refresh Grant for a documentry I'm going to make called Vanishing Feast. There are heirloom varities of food that are at risk at vanishing for good, including fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins of all varities of feathers fins, and hooves.
There is a story in my family of plant that is a family heirloom. It was through writing this blog that I hit upon something that stirs more passion than my grandmother's wooden spoon stirred many pots of gravy. (For those who may not be familiar, gravy in South Philly speak is tomato sauce. South Philly is also where my relatives from Italy settled, and it plays a role in the documentry I will make.) I love gardening, my father taught me about organic gardening growing up, my relatives are farmers who brought a love of the land here to America, and passed that along as a part of my heritage. It is a family heirloom from both sides of my family. And there is the story of the plant that is a family heirloom of mine. It came together as Vanishing Feast, where I will call attention to these food sources that are at risk of vanishing, focus on plants, and provide ways that people can take action on their own to transform the heirloom varieties of plants into family heirlooms.
So how does this jive with Magic Hat Stories. Well stay tuned, becuase as with any story, it will be told as it unfolds.
In other words, I have no idea right now.
Another componet of all of this, there's an activity kit for kids that I had developed back in 2002. And as with many good ideas, it's been soundly rejected at many levels. It's been tweeked once again, and will be sent off to a publisher along with a proposal for the brand I developed along with it. And yes it has to do with hats. Utlimately I want proceeds from the kit to go to the Grameen Scholarship Program.
So that's it for now. I will continue to post as I can. As I work this back into my day, I will have a better idea of how often I will post. The same focus will be one story at a time about someone or some entity doing something positive to change the world.
