On April 11, 2012, Marymac Missions officially became the 99th graduate of the Sustainable Business Leader Program offered by the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston. We are a certified Sustainable Business Leader through the year 2014!
We worked with SBLP coordinator Katrina Kazda and other team members over two years to make changes and develop systems in the areas of:
Energy Conservation
Water Conservation
Pollution Prevention & Safe Alternatives
Waste Management
Transportation
Local Purchasing and Local Food
Sustainability Management
We will continue, through the choices we make, to facilitate small changes towards more positive health outcomes for the individuals and families we serve and the local/global community in which we live. John Daniel writes:
…we sense that possibility has opened in some new way, and we are reaching, uncertainly, for what is to be. To find it will take many small acts of courage and community–acts of faith and hope, acts of boldness and acts of forbearance, acts we can’t yet imagine, acts that may flower and bear fruit only after we are dead. Each alone may seem insignificant, overwhelmingly small, but so do the actions of raindrops and butterflies and the rootlets of trees. It is of such tiny movements, only of such tiny movements, that renewal is made. (“The Roots of Renewal,” Hope, September/October 2002, p. 41)
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary
Heart Care, Dementia Care 2012 Syracuse, NY
It is Saturday morning. I’m having a cup of coffee and reflecting on the last few days I’ve spent here, North of Syracuse, NY. The purpose of my visit is to spend time with my father, who lives here, and is awaiting heart valve surgery, expected in June. We have enjoyed meals and movies together. Responding to his request for more garden flowers, I planted eight flowering shrubs (azaleas) within the window-view from his space at the kitchen table.
On Wednesday, based on my father’s encouragement and support, I attended the local Central New York Alzheimer’s Association Dementia Care 2012 Conference. It was a graduation of sorts to return again to the home-base organization that my father and I had first turned to when mom was exhibiting short-term memory loss and personality changes at the young age of 64. My heart felt some pain seeing again the names and faces of those who journeyed with us five and six years ago. At the same time, my heart was glad to see the progress and growth made in this region to educate and support family caregivers and persons living with cognitive degeneration.
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary