I always have a few ideas floating around in my head at any given time, ideas about tolerance, love, power, cruelty, disconnectedness and how these all relate to and often fuel our treatment (mistreatment) of other species for our wants, not needs. Of course this way of thinking and seeing the world is new to me because for most of my life, I have been an uninformed, willing consumer of other beings. And even after my daughter started speaking to …
I am not Catholic, or even all that religious in the “organized religion” sense of the word, but this little mantra comes to mind this morning as I sit down at my computer to write a post after such a long time away: “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been 30 days since my last confession”. It has indeed been more than a month since my last post and I have missed writing, the animals and all …
Oh my, oh my, oh my, have I ever been sick. People often say that this is the worst time to get sick or that they can’t afford to be sick, but I ask you, when is a good time? I have been burning the candle at both ends getting our house ready to sell, getting knocked out of my socks when it sold right away leaving us scrambling to find a new abode. All done in less than a …
I think it is funny that I am sitting down to write a post about language and I find myself at a loss for words. I think about this website and veganism and my advocacy all the time. I can be sitting in a chair watching TV, doing the laundry, cooking a meal or basically any of the various things I do in any given day and a thought will pop into my mind. All of a sudden, I am …
I wasn’t sure that I would have the time to write two posts before Xmas, but with one just published, here I sit, in front of my computer, thinking about my final thoughts of 2014. It is true, nearly a year has gone by since I first published, on my fledgling blog, my dialogues about vegan life. I am having a website Veganniversary of sorts, even though I am not sure how significant this is.
So many devoted advocates for nonhuman …
I am sure that you have noticed how prominent and important food is in our various celebrations. Easter is about chocolate and the Easter Bunny and roasted pig (ham or pork). Thanksgiving features the poor turkey who is enslaved, mistreated, killed and roasted and a la Kinged to the tune of 19 million in the US and 5 million here in Canada. And then there is Xmas. More turkeys are sacrificed along with all the other usual suspects …
