This week in the blue belt life – new recipe up for my Satsumaimo Power Bread. Check it out, head to the Ginza Farmers Market (or your local farmers market) for ingredients, and whip up a batch this weekend. Recently I have been devoting time to putting up recipes I have found helpful in a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. I have no intention of making this into a recipe blog – why even try when there’s Thug Kitchen? But since I am eventually going to delve into a major problem humanity faces – our attachment to the religion of carnism – I feel it is important to give solutions to that problem…
This week in the blue belt life – new recipe up for my super-effective chemical-free homemade deodorant. Check it out and start smelling right. Also check this sweet music vid out from my colleague jwswiss: Enjoy and productive week ahead!
MasterDebator, the most sensible critic of my stand on Christmas, has once again spurred me to consider my worldview from a different angle. In a recent discussion he posed the following: what power do we have to really affect the suffering of people beyond our immediate family and community? One might even go further and say how can you really affect anything beyond yourself – and do we really even have control over that? I’ll answer that definitively – while we may not have ultimate control over even our own suffering, we do have control over our thoughts, actions, and emotions – that is unless we give that control over…
This week I answer the most common question about my current life: what exactly is it, I do here? Well, in all its glory, here’s the blue belt life play-by-play from last week:
