What is your vision? 

Here are some of mine.

September

As I write this on September 2 Labor Day is ahead of us, Earl, a powerful hurricane, is threatening the east coast, and the 150th Anniversary of the Woodstock Fair starts tomorrow. I've been blessed with a wonderful summer...the last few days included 2 days on Cape Cod with my "best girl friend."  A wise, spiritual yogi and goddess, she and her man are moving in together. We know that our friendship is even more important with her new life shift. Over the summer I traveled to Montana to visit a dear and new woman friend, Colleen.  She is the one who introduced me to Kangen Water in April of 2009.  We met at a rest top in Virgina.  For the story go to www.TrueHealth.H2Origin.com.

After Montana I was in Spokane where I stayed with my best friends parents while I had major dental work done with my favorite dentist who works out of Cour 'd Lane, Idaho.  Long story.  Short version: got the Mercury out of my mouth and my last two root canals and teeth they go with out...therefore lessening the ware and tare on my immune system to fight/counter these unhealthy dental works.

Back home in the Northeast, we are having another hot spell before the hurricane which should bring lots of water even inland here in Woodstock, CT. Of course what we have is not  in the same league close to the weather/ too much water -- too little/ devastation experienced the summer of 2010.  World and weather issues do not take a summer break. 

I have checked my stats for this site...and I've an amazing number of visitors given I do not work to attract you.  If you want to take just a moment to contact me, see on the top where it says Contact Ani,  I'd love to hear how/why you got to the site.  If you wish I will get back to you.  Otherwise I can leave you alone.  

At the bottom of this page I've a new picture...my front steps in beautiful Woodstock, CT, this summer before the hot spell!

Water

The devastation from the  massive flooding in Pakistan continues.  

In the last few years and in the coming ones there will be more and more focus on water as in rain, drinking water, water for our crops and of course the water level and quality of the ocean. There will be many issues:  How polluted is it, how much is it raining or not, all the effects of climate change that involve water, and so much more.  Here in NE it is predicted that climate change is going to mean more spring and late spring precipitation.  Last year this hurt our crops. This year we did not have the same event. Instead we had a super dry July.  So, how do farmers begin to make adjustments? I realize this is huge over simplification of a larger issues. 

Being in the water business, on my local Conservation Commission, now on the new AGvocate Committee and with my overall interests in strengthening our life force, the roles of water are more and more in my consciousness.  I realize that I am going to "have to" write more about how I see the role of water.

My activities and involvement in this area are deepening, which feels good. I have started putting an idea out to help what we call The Last Green Valley.  It involves creating a new radio show.  This is going to take time.  I'm still in the outreach stage.  The show will be part of my work to help create better health.  True Health includes health in mind, body, emotions, spirit, home, relationships, finances, the ecology.... You finish the list.  What does it mean to you?

For me it includes having the energy and means to participate in a great shifts towards a healthier planet and a more evolved and peaceful existence on our Earth, or deal with what happens if things get really hard.  Feeling good also means working in collaboration with like minded people.

Will you take incremental steps this year to have make a contribution to the higher good?

Will you take incremental steps this year to have better health?

If not, what is stopping you?

For some of us, what is stopping us is a sense of, or a real lack of support.  Sometimes it is hard to take care of self only for ones own sake.  Or hard because others, those around us, are not very healthy in their lifestyles or?  Again, I ask, what is true for you?

TrueHealth Cooperative

As a Distributor for Enagic, the 35 year old Japanese company that makes the water system that creates Kangen Water^TM, I see drinking Kangen Water as an element in the greater project of creating TrueHealth.  Please see: www.TrueHealth.H2Origin.com. However, this is a corporate view of Kangen Water.  I am adding information that goes beyond it and reflects my experience and the studying I have been doing with two wonderful, dedicated Naturopathic doctors. 

As an "old" new product marketing consultant, new to living in a rural, agricultural, wooded area, I feel I am in the heart of a happening place. The way we live on the land, the quality, the very viability of the water, the food and the air are our responsibility.

I'm deeply interested in the conservation and evolution of how we share our natural resources. I am deeply interested in TrueHealth.

Reforming Health Care was an galvanizing issue for many months.  Now we move into the ramifications of the bill that has been signed into law.   Who knows what is going to happen now.  However, new avenues are opening: here in NE CT there is an amazing organization in operation.  It is called HealthQuest with the intention of Achieving Healthier Communities Together.  Recently I met with one of the leaders of this work...and hope to find a way to work with her and HealthQuest.  I've also heard of several different models for health clinics...and yearn to know more and participate.  This is the work of this Fall.

In these challenging times, considering our economic health, the pollution of so many waters, the genetic gambles we are taking with our seeds, all these and more mean that a healthy body and strong immune system are key. A strong spirit and hearts and minds in alignment are equally important. 

Health Care is largely focused at healing the sick vs helping us be healthy.  A huge part of our economy is invested in us being sick and needing insurance.  Yet, more now, as the tide slowly shifts and the oceans rise, more emphasis will be on prevention.  Let's come up with a better term than preventative health care.  What would that be?  Language is so important.  Stay tuned - as I use my marketing savvy and visionary propensities.    

I am excited about Kangen Water and working the Enagic.  This water is a piece of what can help us find TrueHealth.

The Enagic water technology is far more than a water filter, does much more than just create ionized drinking water, it changes the body and changes lives. Go to my website: TrueHealth.H2Origin.com to find out more.

As I've said above, in my perspective, this water and water are part of a bigger picture.  As I begin to write more about this...for this website it will help me put the pieces of the puzzle, the maze of life on our planet, together in new meaningful ways.

We are all in this together, and I feel that I have been given a tool, with Kangen Water, to help others and give back to the world.  Surely, now is a time to be good to each other, to remember the basics: to love yourself and your neighbor, to stay or get healthy and to keep the faith.

Check out my website: TrueHealth.H2Origin.com and other aspects of this AniColt.com site.  Feel free to contact me.  I suggest that you take a look at my "Ani -- Marketing Consultant" section.

I love being a locavore

Supporting local farmers and my CSA, Community Supported Agriculture, neighbors gives me amazing pleasure.  Knowing the smiles of those who grow the foods lights up my prep time for a meal.

As a girl I remember my bowl legged grandmother, in her old lady dresses, German belly firm out front, and legs a bit wobbly, tend her garden.  About 10 by 15 feet, it filled the back of their small lot in Monroe, Wisconsin. But my mother and father never grew foods in their gardening years. It was not done in suburbia, and really not the norm in those years.  Until Woodstock I lived almost all my life in suburbia. And now being a Locavore is an "in" thing.  Being in feels good, in this case, however it is cooking and eating local that give me pleasure. More, it is a way we can create a shift to healthier food and people.

Being Creative Feeds the Soul

One of the things that keeps me going is being creative.  Currently, I am taking a lot of photos...many of them of the views from and around my windows.  I have 14 windows in my 5 room apartment.  The views from here on the second floor inspire me.

Here is a picture of the view from my sitting porch by my entrance to the second floor.  Since I took it the lawn people sprayed the greens growing in the walkway.  Wish they had not! I do not like the use of those chemicals.