Diary of a Boutique Owner

Community awareness

Most of my clients are successful men and women who have their daily needs met with little thought or struggle. They are extremely nice people who I do enjoy sharing a cocktail with on occasion.   It is amazing to see how many of the people I meet are desensitized to other people plights.  Every morning we wake up and look at our MSN home page and we see the daily headline “2 children abducted from home”, “Flood devastates community hundreds feared dead and thousands without homes”, “The Darfur region is estimated to have 1,000,000 causalities in the next 2 years”.  We glance over this while drinking our $4.00 Starbucks latte and going over the list of things we need to get done today.  We have become an “I” society, very rarely do we step outside of ourselves and try to make a difference, no matter what size it is.  It’s easy to say there is not enough time in our day or there is nothing “I” could do about it anyway, it’s harder to acknowledge how insignificant we are as individuals and put the greater good for humanity above our own for even five minutes.  Just think what a difference one person devoting 5 minutes a day to others in need.  This may be gathering blankets for the homeless in your area, or volunteering at a head start program twice a month, or a simple as sitting down with a person who has been living on the streets and letting them know they are seen and cared about.  Just imagine what our cities and communities would be like if we all took the time to care about the others around us.

Political Rantings

We are inundated on a daily basis by the media, so much so that we have become numb.  We have become numb to the war in Iraq, the crisis in Sudan, homeless women & children living on the streets in our own cities.  What is wrong with us?   To date there have been over 50,000 Americans injured in Iraq, and over 3300 fatalities.  In the past year along there have been over 26,000 Iraq fatalities from security forces to civilians.  There are estimations that over 650,000 people have been injured or killed since the inception of this war.   

What are we doing about it?  Those are our husbands, wife's, children, brothers, sisters, and parents dying and being horribly maimed and injured.  We entered into this war under false pretenses and unfortunately our law makers either are too afraid of their careers to speak out, or are too satiated on the rewards they are receiving.

Most of the Iraq people are good loving people who are just trying to get by.  Do you think that the man who took his family to lunch at an outdoor cafe wanted to watch his loved ones die from a coward holding a bomb?   What are we doing to the future generations of Iraqis who have watched there families die and who have little or no hope of having a good education within the next couple of years because there are not enough schools left for kids to attend?
This war has cost over 650 million dollars so far. I could think of at least 20 things we could be doing in our own country to help improve the quality of life for the millions of people living below the poverty level.  Those children are our future.

My aim is to make people more aware and realize that everyone has a voice that should be heard.

There is currently a petition going around to impeach Bush the website is www.impeachbush.org there are currently over 868,000 signatures. If this does sway you in any way please make sure to vote to impeach Cheney because it would be a sad day in America if he became president.

Beginning to Sell On-line

We are in the process of launching our on-line website website right now.  We will be selling all of the great men's & women's item items you can find in the store plus a few more!  My goal is that I will be able to do 50% of my sales on-line.  We are using a company called OS Commerce to do all the back end work with.  It has been a pretty simple process so far.   When I decided to open my own business in 2005  I had no idea how much there was to learn.  Lets just hope I am moving in the right direction.   April 27th was my one year anniversary in business.