{"id":458,"date":"2008-10-18T01:11:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/18\/moss-malas-open-for-business\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T01:11:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T05:11:07","slug":"moss-malas-open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/moss-malas-open-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Moss&#8217; Malas Open for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know I&#8217;m really squeamish about getting into sales, and I only do this sort of thing either when my back is against the wall or when I have something to offer that I really think is needed.&nbsp; The current effort is more of the latter.<\/p>\n<p>I have begun to sell malas (meditation beads).&nbsp; The majority of them are the typical 108 mala beads plus the meru, or &#8220;home bead&#8221;, and they are used in various Eastern chants, whether Buddhist, Hindu, or Sufi.&nbsp; The malas I am selling are handcrafted in India, properly constructed and blessed there by people who know what they are doing.&nbsp; I have sold or given to my friends many of these malas, and now want to make them more available.&nbsp; The proceeds from all sales will go toward (1) increasing stock, and (2) Pathways Foundation, which was established 3 years ago to help people in all &#8220;lightworking&#8221; paths who are in financial trouble&#8230; and which has been languishing as an empty fund ever since.<\/p>\n<p>To look at what is presently in stock, visit http:\/\/mossmalas.ecrater.com (you can also get there by going to http:\/\/pathwayssanctuary.org and clicking on the link on the Menu or on the Links page).&nbsp; eCrater only lets me post what is in my hands.&nbsp; I have placed two orders recently which will increase stock, mostly in terms of variety, and I have a 6-page catalog of what is currently available to me (although availability can vary somewhat).&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t see what you like, please ask for my catalog and I&#8217;ll email it to you.&nbsp; (All my malas are made of beads and seeds available in the Chennai district of India, so please don&#8217;t ask me for things such as redwood or other beads that would not be available.)<\/p>\n<p>I hope you visit my site &#8212; just visiting will increase my listing and get me more visitors, hence more sales.&nbsp; Thanks for letting me profane my blog with money talk.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you know I&#8217;m really squeamish about getting into sales, and I only do this sort of thing either when my back is against the wall or when I have something to offer that I really think is needed.&nbsp; The current effort is more of the latter. I have begun to sell malas (meditation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}