Ahhh Hello Life

The front yard is feeling extra magical to me right now (besides the groundhog eating all our kale!)

 We have 3-4 wild ducks taking sanctuary under 3 different kinds of flowering lilacs...ahhh hello life.

Dove Love

I am so in love with the doves...

  

and clearly they are so in love with each other.

Kindness is Key

It's so depressing on Instagram lately...

all I am seeing are animals being abandoned, like bunnies in parks because people can't be
bothered to feed them or care for them during the pandemic.

I am seeing videos of dogs being gathered up and being burned alive

because people fear catching the Corona virus from them...

I've been having to take a break here and there, especially last week during Easter

seeing all of the baby bunnies flooding into shelters, needing homes...ugh.  I can't take it sometimes.

If we can't be kind to all kinds, to the most vulnerable, to those with absolute innocence and

those who have absolutely no voice of their own then what the heck is even the point of it all???

Please take time to check in with people around you to see if they need help with their animals.

Anything Can Be Meatfree

I believe that there is a vegan version of everything, sure it won't taste the same as a meat or

dairy version but to me it would taste better because it doesn't mean the torture & death of anyone!

All it takes is a bit of effort and a willingness & desire to be one less person harming animals.  

Take our vegan "Beefaroni" here (with homemade marinated mushrooms, soy milk & eggfree bread).

It took awhile to perfect it but it is so so tasty & would satisfy any meat-eater.

If anyone wants our recipe, let me know & I am happy to write it out for ya XO

Duck Friends

Did I happen to mention that this summer two ducks found sanctuary in our front yard!

And we live right in the middle of the city so it felt extra magical to me!!

Last season I helped care for 2 baby ducks and being near these beauties reminded me of that time.

I didn't feed them but they did munch a bit on the fallen birdseed.  I did give them fresh water a few times a day though.  They've moved on now which is good because I am not set up to care for ducks that won't fly South in the winter but I think there's a good chance they'll be back next Spring.

Choose Love

I so far only have one regret in life.

That regret is that I haven't always been vegan...if I could go back in time & change that I would.

Spending time with precious beings like these two duck friends

is such a powerful reminder to me of why I choose compassion and love over the alternative.

Baby Raven Beauty

So at the beginning of the summer we had to honor & pleasure of meeting this gorgeous beauty.

He seemed lost & unstable so we kept him safe & comfy until he was strong enough to fly away.

Be Kinder Please

I think one of the things I find hard about this world is that I can't make people kinder.

I really struggle with that some days & sometimes it fills me with quite a bit of anger.

I want everyone, especially those I love to make kinder choices, to go vegan, to embrace animals etc..

But I can't convince anyone of anything and I normally don't try, I just try to lead by example.

I just try to show to the best of my abilities, how much more beautiful life is when your connected

and taking part of all the beauty instead of taking, taking, taking and giving nothing back.

Like finding this injured butterfly in the middle of a huge parking lot...everyone else just walked by.

I couldn't, if I were a butterfly, I wouldn't want to be toasted alive on the hot tarmac or stepped on!

So I picked her up, tucked her safely in the back of the truck whiles I ran the rest of my errands

and when I got her home, I laid her on my prettiest flower to rest and die in peace...

but she didn't die...she flew away a few hours later and that, that one little thing filled my heart full...

it more often than not takes so very little, such very little effort for big beautiful payoffs.

XO