Ghetto Plainsman | Jarid Manos » thanksgiving http://www.ghettoplainsman.com Author. Green Leader. Vegan Athlete. Youth Worker. Health Advocate. Father. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:27:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Happy Thanksgiving http://www.ghettoplainsman.com/2007/11/happy-thanksgiving/ http://www.ghettoplainsman.com/2007/11/happy-thanksgiving/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:57:36 +0000 admin http://www.ghettoplainsman.com/?p=243 Happy Thanksgiving. I just got back from the gym. As I was walking home, I was thinking how sometimes people recoil when they hear I’m a vegan, and how some people cringe when they think about vegetarian foods. This has always struck me as so odd, because we enjoy foods that are clean, organic, natural, super-healthy, excellent tasting, and deeply satisfying. I guess they’ve never had veg soul food. In any case, flesh smells like flesh to me, whether it’s human or animal. One time a few years back I was walking down my alley in Denver and as I was approaching a dumpster I immediately smelled it — death. I have an excellent sense of smell. It was half a person, buried in the trash in there. Another block up, the rest of him was in another dumpster. Last year, long after I had moved back to Texas, my South Dakota Director came down for a Board meeting. She left a restaurant bag filled with barbecued meat leftovers under the desk, and a few days later I came back to the office and it was the same smell. Like somebody had died in there.

Peace and blessings to all.

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