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Happy World Vegan Month!! Woo. This fall is the start of my 4th year of veganism! hurray! In my search for my first vegan post, I came across this one. Reading it again makes me realize how my knowledge of these issues has grown over the years (especially from being at school), and how my feelings have remained the same. I sound so bitter in that post (and I still am, but you learn how to live without it taking you over). But it's so positive to know that being aware of these issues empowers me to make more appropriate choices. This whole relationship with food, this whole awareness that is continuing to build, has greatly influenced my choices. First vegetarian food, then veganism, onto buying more organic items - and in the works, growing as much of my own organic food as I can. Also my menu has changed...when would I have ever eaten things like muesli, wild rice with lentils and mushrooms, tahini, kale, seitan (homemade, even!), quinoa, and tempeh, OR been able to bake my own bread and pie crust instead of buying it before I became vegan? This lifestyle has many many rewards, let me tell you. Groups like this one keep me going when I have bad days full of despair (which can be quite often when you experience things like what I mentioned in that post I linked to.) Here's to another year, and hopefully to making it out to Farm Sanctuary during that time, as well as growing a kick ass veg garden!
In other news, I've been using my paper journal more lately. It's hard when my hand can't keep up with my brain though.
Life is suddenly bright again these days, but you can't have it all, as I'm reminded when I think of certain family members who aren't doing so well right now, and the fact that I am out of money with no job for the moment. But, I can feel that I'm on the cusp of something and it's exciting. I have so much to look forward to.
I wrote this recently. You can have some of it I suppose.
I read horoscopes. I think many of us do, us romantics, us who are intuitive, hoping to find some meaning even if we know better than to look for it. A few weeks ago mine read "you will look back and start to see someone for who they are, just as they are, nothing more or less." This has happened recently. Things are almost full circle...it's just what I needed, but then you were always just what I needed. Your light & cheer lingers in corners of the kitchen, on the staircase, under my feet. My smile has lasted longer because of it. I feel our sameness in the way we talk, laugh, eat, sleep. We are nothing other than ourselves, but together, we're almost greater.
In other news, I've been using my paper journal more lately. It's hard when my hand can't keep up with my brain though.
Life is suddenly bright again these days, but you can't have it all, as I'm reminded when I think of certain family members who aren't doing so well right now, and the fact that I am out of money with no job for the moment. But, I can feel that I'm on the cusp of something and it's exciting. I have so much to look forward to.
I wrote this recently. You can have some of it I suppose.
I read horoscopes. I think many of us do, us romantics, us who are intuitive, hoping to find some meaning even if we know better than to look for it. A few weeks ago mine read "you will look back and start to see someone for who they are, just as they are, nothing more or less." This has happened recently. Things are almost full circle...it's just what I needed, but then you were always just what I needed. Your light & cheer lingers in corners of the kitchen, on the staircase, under my feet. My smile has lasted longer because of it. I feel our sameness in the way we talk, laugh, eat, sleep. We are nothing other than ourselves, but together, we're almost greater.