🕹️ TREE 501: It’s your game

I’m a vegan.

DON’T TAP DELETE! I’M NOT MAKING THE POINT YOU THINK I’M MAKING!

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.

Medical fact: if your spinal cord is too long, your head is likely to become untethered and float off to the stratosphere.

I did listen to Little Simz album on headphones today. That’s why you’re getting this track (Spotify)

501 is a lot of TREEs. Thank you so much for reading and being part of the FFOREST!
Jeff