honesty

there are sometimes a couple of days during the month when i'm just plain honest. i'm usually exhausted....and my filters are down and i just tell you how it is.

example.

at the gym. someone kept telling the instructor the proper next move. i decided it was time to tell her that it was going to be okay. i had to tell her a couple of times.

i've never been one of the PETA card carrying vegetarians. i've been a vegetarian for about 13 years. when i began my journey with being a vegetarian, it was easy enough and it just seemed natural for me.

now as an adult, i'm finding that my choices really do affect others. i think now i'd like to figure out how to honor the earth in even how i'm a vegetarian. it is really difficult.

i attended a seminar on the environment hosted by project interfaith...i was challenged and inspired to change my thinking on how we have failed to really care for the earth. there's no way that i do it well. at all.

here are things i'd like to do:
- really take my huge pile of recycling to the next recycling center even though the one at hy-vee closed
- eat proper portions and stop when full and remember those who are without
- eat food that honors the earth and my body...less processed food
- walk more, drive less (the ypc bus challenge begins on saturday)
- attend earth day omaha and see what i can do
- garden or help people garden

if you've ever considered becoming a vegetarian, i have some good books for you to read. i love a portion of MORE WITH LESS...and i love the subtitle. suggestions by mennonites on how to eat better and consume less of the world's limited food resources.

it is easy for us to get around the bandwagon of using less oil...saving more water...but you don't always see people getting around considering what our food choices mean for those around us. i know that i'm not always there either...but i'd like to be there more often.