Happy Autumnal Glory

This is a little edit and repost for the Fall Equinox, which is on September 23 in 2015 on the Northern Hemisphere. 
We have used our time as a people to ask for the weather we desired. 
We may, once again, get together in solidarity and spirit and select for the temperatures and climate conditions for our contingent lives. 
Everyone has a different idea of what "good weather" entails. 
For Fall I like warm at first, a little Indian Summer style, cool evenings moving toward Winter at the end of Decenber and some gentle winds and rains focusing over the aqua ducts and vegetation. 
Join me in the desire for a mild, classic Fall.

With gratitude for your ability to provide my beautiful World I give salutations to my kin and the kind World:
From the firmaments I desire the optimals for the solidarities, the nourishments, the obviously tangible, the dependables.
From the fires I desire the optimals for the metabolisms, the warmthnesses, the beautiful transformations, the growths.
From the airs I desire the optimals for the clarities, the sparklings, the chameleon-camouflages, the gatherings.
From the waters I desire the optimals for the cleaninesses, the condensations, the visceral viscosities, the lumens.
And as you each bless me with new moments, easily filling each others’ role, as transition brings joy to my existence, I know you will change again and I will, too.
Include me in your denomination of the World. Include me in the perfection you desire. Allow me to perfect in my own way, in your glorious presence.
As I look forward to the Autumnal Glory, I wish for your presence, World, to change, absorb the nutrients you desire, make the changes you seek for yourself, and us, obtain knowledges, perfect. I look forward to the return to the light of the Sun, in this, the northern hemisphere.
I want you, World, to feel the best you you’ve ever been and continue to improve along the best possible routes.
My intentions for this Fall are to become more luminous and whole unto myself. I desire to perfect in your presence. Sustaining myself from your bounty of elements is a delightful challenge, World. From firmaments=healing body, fires= creating manufacture, airs= inspiring sensation, waters= luxurious comfort.
My expectation for this season is to grow and harvest a fancy life, the reality of well being, and the goodness of good.
Please help me to join you in our best interests, I love you, World, Happy Autumnal Glory.
With gratitude for your ability to provide my beautiful World I give my way to my kin and the kind World:
Thank you, firmaments for the solidarities, the nourishments, the obviously tangible, the dependable.
Thank you, fires for the metabolisms, the warmthnesses, the beautiful transformations, the growth.
Thank you, airs for the clarities, the sparklings, the chameleon-camouflages, the gatherings.
Thank you, waters for the cleaninesses, the condensations, the visceral viscosities, the lumens.
And as you each bless me with new moments, easily filling each others’ roles, as transition brings joy to my existence, I know you will change again and I will, too..
Include me in your denomination of the World. Include me in the perfection you desire. Allow me to perfect in my own way, in your glorious presence.

Animal lives have been miserably exploited in the food/research/textile industries. Why be part of it? Why make it part of you?

What would the future be like if everyone became vegan?

 

The Change:

As a vegan of 14 years, I knew my eutopia (true place) would be a vegan world. But I wondered how long it would take. Now it seems funny that I ever had anxiety about if or when it might happen. Now the zoos, ranches, and sanctuaries are commonly funded by donations, 5% - 10% of people's budget, tax deductible as always, contributing to a more valid sense of “loving animals”, something better than flesh abuse. Animals are valued and respected, they are mostly under age 18, though they will live longer, and mostly treated as children in the community. They are kept and cared for like kids. Pretty much every city and town around the world has some sort of animal refuge, or has something under construction.

With “the change”, as it is called, having taken place three years ago, there are many groups that call for increased rights for animals. Voting, health insurance, even driving concerns for some species... the details haven't all been worked out yet. To me, language is the most important concern. There are teams with different focuses, I opt for teaching/learning English, a popular language, and helping those who can to vocalize it. It's tough to know what to do about those, bugs, sponges, so many small things, how to be sensitive enough to communicate with them. So far, even though we're all vegan, even the wolves and sharks who get vegan kibble carted in by rangers, we're just going along day to day, getting used to the change.

Sanctuaries and vegans from way back, have been leading the community in how to meet species-specific nutritional needs and veganize recipes. But no one wants to go back, we are all too precious to keep messing up. We are aware that we were acting like monsters. We feel sorry for how we used to behave. It's funny, it only took seven days... tell a gorilla who's been vegan forever, but there was a week, three years ago, when it really took off. It was a cultural awakening, an ethical system. Somehow it was just one blogger's meme that got shared over and over about not taking advantage of the bodies of animals. It read: .

Animal lives have been miserably exploited in the food/research/textile industries. 

Why be part of it? Why make it part of you?

Everyone saw it, many times. It seems it was translated into every language, it was so simple, but it inspired art, and there was a petition to have a Constitutional amendment. So far that hasn't worked out, but like the E.R.A. of 1923, most people now agree that it is implied in the word “people” that “people” includes all “personalities”, humans and so also other animals. Really, the non-voters, human children, identified with the other animal children and they pushed the revolution quite a bit, where they were able.

Workers, over the past few years, have been transitioning from “breeding”- mostly a problem of pedophilia, and “processing”- death, we try not to be graphic about past indiscretions- to zoo, ranch, and sanctuary operations. Money that used to fuel government meat subsidies and animal research grants now fuel upkeep and longevity. Many go-getters have already completed social service degrees to teach and acculturate non-human animals, and there are many parallels growing with human-child-care and schooling models. Veterinary care's focus is on long healthy lives. By now many religious types have developed “lessons” geared toward animals and the use of eucharists and sacraments are considered gauche, no one is partaking of the “lamb of God”.

The question on most peoples' mind these days, though, is what about minerals and plants? The artist who wrote the change's blog meme also wrote, “all matter is consciousness”. It is gaining popularity, even right now. The main difference is the way and the ethics of how we get more. I say this life is an amusement park, and just smile as I pile things on the merry-go-round of my life, trying to treat things as best as I can, as I nourish, test, and fashion my ride... and hope for the best possible future.

For tips on things to eat as a vegan, or even, as Joel Fuhrman, MD, calls it, "nutritarian", see November 1, 2015 of this blog.

What about a small tax to care for animals?
At http://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title59/Chapter12/59-12-P7.html?v=C59-12-P7_1800010118000101, http://www.renewzap.com/ and http://www.zapisyou.org there is some information about a 1/10th of 1% Salt Lake County, Utah tax that provides for zoos, arts and parks. In my above entry I suggested monies previously allocated to meat subsidies be used for animal care in suitable zoos, ranches, and sanctuaries. Animals need real places to grow and live, be cherished and safely thrive.  What if there was a help for interested individuals and communities to provide for animals by suggesting how to write a tax proposal for cities, counties, states, nations. I think that would be a lovely project for animal life.  I think ideas and language could be handed off to committees of regular people, who can take their desires to their congresses and governments.   A society with animals living and being themselves, whatever we all eat. Thank you, for your good work.

"have been" in place of "are" October 13, 2024.

True Love Creation

TLC is floating as the sky. 

Milky Way, so fantastic,

and so much more,

hear me say: True Love Creation.

Animal spokes of the

spiral-armed Wheel.

We live in love with

One ideal: concatenating

internal attachment to

the defining great-grace

that is y/our body.
 

Happy Celebration Day

September 6, 2015

 

See notes on TLC at 12/10/2014.