I can add interest to clothes I already have through dying or embroidery. I can alter clothes to catch up with current fashion. And I can disregard the unsustainable pace of fast fashion by finding “my look”: styles that fit my person, my personality and my lifestyle. 

Constructive communication gives us a chance to lower the temperature of communication by stepping back and listening and then responding with the heart. Practicing this will help the community as we come together to work on social problems like racial injustice.

One of my top core values is honesty. Again and again I find fault with people and I guess society for not being honest. This has been especially hard because its election season and honesty is hard to come by. I voted today so now I can really ignore all the crap. A second value is life long education. I have always been a learner and don't understand people who are not. I have been working on holding back my judgement for people who choose to be uneducated. Today someone came to vote in Milwaukee that was from Hales Corners. How do you do that? And there was a guy who moved and didn't have proof of his new address. Wonder if either of these people will actually vote in this election. I have always tried to step up and solve problems I see instead of standing by and doing nothing. I am president of my condo association so I can make living here better for everyone. I thought about these values after thinking about actions I have recently taken in my life and my patterns of actions.

One reason is historically eating meat was considered a sign of wealth. Only the wealthy could afford to buy meat. Meat I guess was also considered the best form of nutrition. It cost a lot of money to raise a meat animal as opposed to eating what the animal would eat. I know some cultures use meat as almost a condiment and some cultures don't eat pork because of religious beliefs.