Have A Voice As Clear As A Bell!

The bell had been hanging from a tack on a bulletin board for at least the almost year that I have worked at Terressentials. A beautifully polished brass bell from Tibet. The tag, still on it, claimed it had been individually sand cast in brass and hand-turned to ensure clarity of sound and tone. While I was sitting at the desk trying to decide what to write about for the monthly Terressentials newsletter, I started fiddling with this bell. I gave it a shake. Nothing...not a sound came from this little bell. I looked inside and to my dismay found that it did not have a clapper! Imagine, a bell not able to make the beautiful clear tone it was so carefully and individually hand turned to emit?

I believe we humans were also made to emit our own clear tone. We have a voice. Let's use it and spread the word about organics. Use simple clean, non-toxic USDA certified organic products and foods. Remember to read labels. So many products on your neighborhood grocery shelves claim to be organic and claim organic certification but if you read the labels you will see that there are a multitude of unpronounceable and mysterious ingredients. Remember, just because one ingredient is organic this one ingredient does not make the whole product organic or even good for you or our environment. Even though two things claim to make the same sound, when they ring one sounds very flat while another tone is clear. The “ring of truth” so to speak. Terressentials products ring with clarity and truth. Terressentials doesn't hide mysterious chemical ingredients in our products.

I was here the day the USDA certifier came to inspect Terressentials and their products and I saw the leaders of our small company jump through all the many hoops it takes to be able to have the USDA organic seal proudly placed on the label of our products. Why bother to go through all the trouble, you ask, when you can get away with so much surreptitiously and make the product more cheaply with no one being the wiser? Terressentials does jump through those hoops because we truly care about the products and the people who use them. We have a voice and the tone is clear. Our products are carefully cast and hand-turned to emit a beautiful sound.

And what became of the little bell? I took it home and fashioned a clapper from a beautiful, but lonely bead that didn't have a mate. I attached it to to the bell and and hung the bell back on the tack on the bulletin board. Every now and then I give it a shake and hear it's clear tone ring out as a reminder to use my own voice wisely and spread the word about Terressentials and truly USDA organic products.