Comments on: Edamommy’s Vegan Diary: Feeling Guilty http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/nutrition-health-wellness-articles/wellness/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty Environmentally Friendly - Healthy Lifestyle and Nutrition tips for Healthy Homes Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Julie V Thomas http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/nutrition-health-wellness-articles/wellness/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty/comment-page-1#comment-1941 Julie V Thomas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:05:19 +0000 http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/2008/06/04/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty/#comment-1941 some attention on these types of products. I like a organic lifestyle for my life. some attention on these types of products. I like a organic lifestyle for my life.

]]> By: kiwilog http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/nutrition-health-wellness-articles/wellness/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty/comment-page-1#comment-1098 kiwilog Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:48:11 +0000 http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/2008/06/04/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty/#comment-1098 It makes me think of a new theme song - Almost Green (instead of Almost Blue). Does it seem odd that both Elvis Costello and Diana Krall recorded this song? Seems like a married couple might want to avoid that comparison. Almost green Flirting with this disaster became me It named me as the fool who only aimed to be Tag - you're it. It makes me think of a new theme song - Almost Green (instead of Almost Blue). Does it seem odd that both Elvis Costello and Diana Krall recorded this song? Seems like a married couple might want to avoid that comparison.

Almost green

Flirting with this disaster became me

It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Tag - you’re it.

]]> By: happyhoarfrost http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/nutrition-health-wellness-articles/wellness/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty/comment-page-1#comment-1096 happyhoarfrost Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:26:37 +0000 http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/2008/06/04/edamommys-vegan-diary-feeling-guilty/#comment-1096 If mommy-guilt is an irksome gestational condition, GREEN-mommy-guilt will put you in the hospital on bedrest. With a corn-plastic bedpan, OF COURSE. Although blanket labeling is a potentially self-damning cop-out, I do NOT agree with Eckhart Tolle (and Oprah, too!) when he says, in a A New Earth (a title which falsely & immediately calls to mind an environmental tome, no?) that "the quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, the more deadened you become..." I believe that "verbally sorting" is an important way of understanding and (hello) ENJOYING our world ("paper, plastic, glass, foreheads bearing confectionary goo"), and I am sick, sick, sick of people playing the "Oh heavens, it's a STEREOTYPE" card. Someone I admire very much recently introduced me to the term "green-washing" (which I assumed was an organic cleaning method...), which implicates those who posture at being more green than they actually are. While I'm sure there are plenty of those that green-wash---most of us are just doing our best, learning as we go. Here's another label for you, and one of my favorites: "Eco-Elitist." During your next wave of green guilt, remember that none of these savvy, almost prefessional greensters leapt fully formed from Athena's skull. At some point they had to learn. And the corollary: do their best. If mommy-guilt is an irksome gestational condition, GREEN-mommy-guilt will put you in the hospital on bedrest. With a corn-plastic bedpan, OF COURSE.
Although blanket labeling is a potentially self-damning cop-out, I do NOT agree with Eckhart Tolle (and Oprah, too!) when he says, in a A New Earth (a title which falsely & immediately calls to mind an environmental tome, no?) that “the quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, the more deadened you become…”
I believe that “verbally sorting” is an important way of understanding and (hello) ENJOYING our world (”paper, plastic, glass, foreheads bearing confectionary goo”), and I am sick, sick, sick of people playing the “Oh heavens, it’s a STEREOTYPE” card. Someone I admire very much recently introduced me to the term “green-washing” (which I assumed was an organic cleaning method…), which implicates those who posture at being more green than they actually are. While I’m sure there are plenty of those that green-wash—most of us are just doing our best, learning as we go.
Here’s another label for you, and one of my favorites: “Eco-Elitist.”
During your next wave of green guilt, remember that none of these savvy, almost prefessional greensters leapt fully formed from Athena’s skull. At some point they had to learn. And the corollary: do their best.

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