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Comment on 2012 New Year Resolutions by Edain

Edain — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:46:00 +0000

I am glad that you are updating again. I think your resolutions sound wonderful. I hope your year is filled with fun and adventure.

Comment on I ain’t even mad, dawg. by Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:26:21 +0000

Hi Lucy How are you? You can always call me or email me you know keep updating this okay? Love ya

Comment on I ain’t even mad, dawg. by Edain

Edain — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:32:15 +0000

I am so sorry to hear that you and Katrina broke up. I hope that things will get better for you both soon. *hugs*

Take care of yourself.

Comment on How To Choose To Be Happy by Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:23:58 +0000

You don’t believe in karma. lol

Comment on Let’s Create and Inspire Once More! by Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:14:04 +0000

Wonderful post babe.

Comment on How To Choose To Be Happy by lucycou › Let’s Create and Inspire Once More!

lucycou › Let’s Create and Inspire Once More! — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:28:01 +0000

[...] me. She originally found me by googling “chose/choose to be happy”. She found my post How to Choose To Be Happy. It helped [...]

Comment on Life = Choices by Katy

Katy — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:21:58 +0000

I randomly found your blog, and I feel like I could have written that post. While I’m just beginning to explore Raw foods, I’ve been semi-vegetarian and semi-vegan for three years. Every time I “fall off the wagon” and eat something horrible, I feel horrible, and wonder what in the HECK is wrong with me. If it helps you feel better, our bodies are hard wired to crave high fat, high sugar, high salt, highly caloric foods. Our ancestor didn’t know when their next big meal was coming, so they had to be ready to indulge when they got a high calorie treat. The problem is, now we have so many high calorie foods at our finger tips, and our brains haven’t adapted enough to tell us we don’t need that crap.

It is still hard, and it sucks to want to be so healthy and hit road blocks, but we’re in this together, lol.

Comment on Life = Choices by Yvonne

Yvonne — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:56:43 +0000

I am very happy for you. The raw vegan diet is difficult to stick with unless you have a great support system. If you are going to cheat on the raw I would still try to stick with vegan. The Amy’s All American Veggie Burgers are really good for filling the burger craving without messing your system up too much. For the Ice cream substitute I highly recommend http://coconutbliss.com/ and http://www.turtlemountain.com/ coconut milk ice creams are awesome.

Sorry, I haven’t been checking your blog lately.

My son has improved quite a bit on the vegan diet, and I have lost more than 20 pounds. We tried to do completely raw vegan but he just got too upset about all the foods he couldn’t have. We are still doing a high raw diet and completely vegan even with the food I cook. I have found a way to modify many of my old recipes for our new vegan lifestyle. It is still difficult being vegan in Texas, but we bring food with us when we are going to be out at mealtime. I keep larabars in my purse when we have an appointment with the Doctor. (Kids always get hungry waiting for the nurse to call us into the exam room.)

I make all our bread from scratch using unbleached white flour and spelt flour.

Good luck on your journeys in Portland. I hope you and Katrina will be able to find a more supportive environment.

Comment on Life = Choices by lucycou

lucycou — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:31:02 +0000

I really like this post- I support you baby! Not that you need it

Comment on Homeless Dude by ahmad daniel

ahmad daniel — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:56:00 +0000

It is a difficult thing, watching homeless people trying to survive. I don’t know if Adriana ever told you, but I was there many years ago, when I first moved to California in 1997. During my days of being homeless I met several others like me and thus soaked in an insider’s view. I discovered that the vast majority were comfortable being homeless as having to work or function normally in society was more than they cared to handle. A large but still smaller portion were homeless because they had no one to turn to when this became the case. A small number, the group to which I soon belonged to, were doing our best to get off the streets as quickly as possible. I did so, and in turn helped a few others out of the same situation. Ever since then I have always been known to take in those who need a home. While I was in my second year of college I was always bringing in students who perhaps would have to quit if they did not find a place to live. It felt really good to be able to help, and I never expected anything from them in return. It eventually culminated into me taking in my niece, who after just shy past 5 years of living with me, has moved in with her mother. While she was living with me, she was my excuse not to bring in any homeless people into our home. Her safety was top priority. Now that she has left, I find myself wanting to help anew. My partner and I discussed the situation and concluded that nowadays, it is a little scary to do so. People just aren’t who people were back in the day. Most–not the guy you saw as he sounded truly homeless–of the people I see on the streets today have thier car parked just down the street, or are not homeless at all, just trying to cash in, or they are scamming people and are really well off, or they are out of a job and working the streets as a preventative measure. It is thoroughly confusing as to who to help and who not to. I came home one day and thought to return to some girl who had approached me with the concept that she and her boyfriend locked their keys in their car and that then while they were trying to open it, they realized they forgot their wallet/purse in the store and it was stolen, so they needed money for gas to get home to Eugene. I started to question myself as to why I did not help. The story was so elaborate, it had to be real. I was on my way back out when Fofo (Jason) asked me where I was going. I told him and he proceeded to tell me that my initial instinct was right, it was a scam. They were there the day prior doing the same thing and had approached him, as they did me. This upset me a great deal as I almost fell for it. Again, it just really kills it for those who really are homeless and in need of a good meal, or a place to stay. I regret to say that I never got around to helping out some people I had intended to assist. There was a crowd of people that gathered at a quiet intersection/exit here in Vancouver, who were very obviously homeless. Of the 5-7 times I saw them, they were taking turns pan-handling, while the rest were joking about, sitting under a couple of trees, away from the hot sun. I meant to take them some food, or give them my address so they could swing by to eat any time they so desired. They I knew would truly appreciate the assistance and they all looked like good people.

I apologize for the long break-less blurb. I forget to separate things into paragraphs when I am typing freely with emotion, and this my darling, is a topic I have great emotion about. I want to help, but often find myself conflicted with “who” to help. At the very least I strongly and actively support Goodwill and more importantly, the Salvation Army. While Goodwill helps a lot of people, the Salvation Army does a lot more for those who are actually living on the streets. I could progress on the topic for quite a while, but for now, whether I am a saint or a monster, I do what I feel I can and I just have to learn to live with that, while I figure out new ways to help. It is life after all, and the most important thing is learning how to live it.

Ciao Bella. Best to you and your family.
-ahmad