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Quick Tip! ~ What to make for non-vegan guests?

So you’ve gone all rockstar and glitter and are now eating plant based and walking on sunshine but … your house guests haven’t.  What to do?  You have successfully saved the world and started reverse aging, but, darn it, you still want friends.  Fear not, we can help with that!

Just to keep life interesting, my sister and her hubby are dairy farmers.  Yup, isn’t that a conflict of interests, eh?  But guess what, we love them and they love us.  They just might be some of the greatest humans I know.  So when they travel miles and miles with a newborn to stay with us, bloody hell do I want to make sure they are fed and happy!  So what do we feed them?

  1. Leek and Bean Cassoulet with Biscuits (“that vegan shit” website)
  2. African Peanut Stew (Oh She Glows)
  3. Coconut Curry and broccoli (Plantpower Way)
  4. Black bean burgers (“tastes better than scratch” website) and fries (No Meat Athlete), fixin’s, and sautéed kale

These meals can easily be doubled or amplified to feed an army.  They are festive and they seem to make farmers happy.  So yet again, no excuses, go eat plants!

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Sit with Us

What are you waiting for?

What could be more important?

Friends don’t eat friends 😉

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Just be the bright light

Historically I’ve tended to identify with a few labels: type A, first born, OCD, maybe even, for a millisecond,  straight laced (shudder ….).  This has got me a long way in some respects.  Being driven and organized and slightly manic about details is a fabulous way to get shit done FOR YOURSELF.  You want to get your ass a few degrees – check.  You want to attain a certain level of fitness – check.  You want to get the house, car, appliances – check, check, check.

But, what if you want to effect change OUTSIDE of yourself?  What if you want to build something that involves and inspires other people?  These endeavours require more.  Or perhaps … less.

When you are delicately wired to be compulsive about specifics and not leave a task until it is wholly complete, and you are generally used to doing this for yourself and doing it quickly, contemplating how to contribute to “BIG” change  is utterly overwhelming.  Why don’t you see what I see?  Why don’t you feel what I feel?  Why can’t you hear what I’m saying?  How can anyone think this is a good idea?  WHY DON’T WE CHANGE?  WHY DON’T WE CARE?  These are the thoughts that run through my mind whenever I pull my chair up to these proverbial tables.  The frustration is palpable and vibrates inside like bottled lightening.  This is not an enjoyable feeling and, in the past, has simply lead to me getting up and leaving the table eventually.

How does one stay at the table and not go crazy?

My new solution, JUST BE THE BRIGHT LIGHT.  If the others around the table aren’t understanding you, then just gently but persistently, show them.  Be the light.  Be it over and over and over again.  Commit to modelling what you wish others would see is the way to better.  Not only will this mean that all your energy will be focused on where it counts but it will also be contagious.  Because doing what you believe in feels luxurious and free and this will radiate and be noticed, I promise.

Just try it.  Is there a system that is broken in your world?  Have you sat at a table and felt lightening?  Maybe it’s at your work?  Maybe it’s at the dinner table?  Maybe it’s in the news?  Maybe it’s something you see every day?  Instead of letting the overwhelm win, focus your energy on your good.  Pick up that plastic with a smile on your face, look at your colleague in the eye and REALLY listen to them, eat your vegetables, make your cubicle the beacon for all that is right in the world.

I was listening to this podcast this morning which echoes this sentiment:

https://tim.blog/2018/03/05/jack-kornfield/

I really encourage you to listen all the way to the end.

Then off you go and shine brightly.