♟️ It’s your game

Book of TREE 4.42

I’m a vegan.

(DON’T TAP DELETE! I’M NOT MAKING THE POINT YOU THINK I’M GOING TO!)

But I shop at Amazon all the time.

Maybe you are happy to eat animals but wouldn’t dream of giving your money to a company that treats employees like Amazon does.

Maybe you eat the steak and buy from Amazon but you volunteer at a food bank.

Yesterday, I wrote about how nature nurtures and destroys. You are part of nature. Some of the things you do nurture, create, build. Other things destroy. Sometimes you do both at the same time. The way life is means that it is impossible to live without causing some harm and destruction.

(Capitalism makes it super-impossible, but that’s not my point either.)

My point is that it’s your game. You get to choose quite a lot of what you will nurture and what you will destroy. I hope you are choosing to maximise nurture and minimise destruction. I know you will make some different choices than I will. You have different skills and interests. You live on a different chunk of the planet. There is no single List Of How All Good People Should Live.

I could try to push you into making the same choices as me. That’s a bad idea. It’s important for me to have faith that you are making the best choices you can with the information and resources that you have. It’s important for me to celebrate the nurturing choices I see others make, especially when they are different than mine.

—Jeff

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, FFOREST friends. Living in a city that is largely populated by Irish Catholic people, the celebration is huge here. But, outside of the basic information on the holiday, I was clueless. Did a little research in my downtime. Productive time wasting, maybe…learned a little bit. I hope wherever you are, maybe theres a green beer in your future.

Grow slowly
Skyler