“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."--Barbara de Angelis


I didn't get "On the Board," at work, tonight, but I had some great conversations with folks about the opera, and I have several people to call back, which denotes either a possible true interest later, or is just someone who doesn't know how to say, "NO."

My boss asked what I was having to eat, and I told him that it was a, "vegetarian meatloaf."
He said, "Are you a vegetarian?" I said, "Not completely; I don't like the way the animnals are raised, and killed, so I try to eat as little meat as possible, and when I do eat meat, I thank the animal that died for me.

"You thank the chicken," said my boss, with a laugh.

I laughed back, and said, "Yes, I thank the chicken."

My boss brought in several buckets of fried chicken for the crew, later in the evening.
I said to him, "You're not going to thank the chicken are you?"

He said, "I give thanks to God for all things. If I started to think about
the chicken, I would probably go crazy."

Probably, many of us are like this. If we thought about how that nicely packaged steak, or those
well-arranged thighs came to be sitting so pleasantly in the meat dept., we would probably greatly alter the way we eat.

I think that my boss is right, that we should give thanks for everything that we have in our lives, and I also think that thanking the cow, the pig, the chicken, the lamb, for dieing for us, does not go far enough to alleviate the great pain that they endure while being raised, and then killed on corporate farms.

I'm a sinner. Send me to hell for breathing.