Nice to live in a village...

I was sitting at the little table in the deli today with some business-type folks having a meeting. And in the hour or so that I sat there, I watched three individual ecovillagers come into the store to pick up an item- milk, a sandwich, a brownie etc. But I also watched as three eco-families including parents and kids walk by the big windows. Where were they going? The post-office? the bank? the gas station to return bottles? the movie store? so many options! I smiled inside because I didn't know specifically where they were headed, but I knew they were walking to go shopping and that their money was being spent locally and that living in Yarrow is quite a gift.