Haley ✨’s Reviews > Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan > Status Update

journaling meditation- taking written stock of the day’s successes, failures, lessons, and epiphanies and using them to shape the next days intentions.

“How do I learn from this?”

What you eat or do not eat is a form of expression.

“… when we genuinely desire to make headway on these aspirations, our shortcomings often turn into occasions for refining our understanding of goals and abilities, improving tactics in problem areas, and perhaps most importantly forgiving ourselves and going again.”
^^this applies to more than veganism

Food apartheid-systemic,raciallydriveninequalityfoodac

“By cultivating soil that is hospitable to native plants and flowers, I help to make a home for bees and to make it possible for them to eat. And by pollinating the plants and flowers that come up from that soil, they help to make a home for me and to make it possible for me to eat. We’re in this together. We share common ground and so naturally our flourishing is interlaced.“

“[Geese] care about their lives and each other. They mate for life… Cars and pretty much everything else we make are nothing to them but noise pollution, occasional obstacles… They want for nothing from me, except maybe to step back and make room for them to be more fully who they are— agents, communities, beings striving and surviving together to endure and enjoy their fierce but fragile lives…”