I sometimes, but not always, try to avoid it… Weekly Recap 12/1/2025
The topic of eating meat is a loaded question — one which I am not prepared to fully address in this short discussion.
I will say that, for a variety of reasons, I sometimes opt to not eat red meat.
On the other hand, I also ate the majority of a very sketchy hotdog at the movies yesterday. It was supposed to be beef, but who’s to say for certain?
There’s many thoughts in my mind, but the two foremost are:
- The treatment of animals is abhorrent
- Beef and pork do not often agree with my body
Can we try to only source our beef from cows that lived “happy lives”? Maybe. But that easily becomes cost-prohibitive. I’ve pretty much moved on from ordering a steak at a restaurant, but I haven’t been able to cut my cravings for a cheeseburger or trash drive-thru food every now and then.
My opinions on this matter are constantly evolving; however, sometimes practicality and convenience outweigh moral fortitude. Is that bad? I don’t know. There should be balance in all things.
What I do know for sure is that I have to take a moment to stop and be grateful for my food, whatever it is. If I don’t do that, I’ve discovered that my body tends to reject it. So that hotdog I ate yesterday, as sketchy as it was, received a moment of gratitude. I closed my eyes and pictured cows living out happy lives, then I thanked them for giving me some of their energy.
Daily writing prompt What are your feelings about eating meat?
View all responses Good morning and happy Monday, friends. And happy start to December!
I hope everyone had a pleasant holiday week filled with all the shopping and consumerism that you chose to handle. I thought an article on gratitude would be seasonally appropriate, so that’s what I wrote about last week.
We had quite the spread for our Thanksgiving meal.
It was delicious! We’re very full and our fridge is full of leftovers.
Preparation for all this food was quite an ordeal. I think we made approximately 7,928 trips to grocery stores over the course of the week.
On Sunday, we went to the Farmer’s Market. It honestly seemed pretty dead. I guess most people were tired from other weekend shopping, but we did grab a delicious smashburger.
I’ll be honest with you… we did go out on Black Friday and attempt to do some shopping. We just wanted to find a new kitchen trash can. All of the deals were terrible! It was a total failure. Further reinforcement of my loathing for retail shopping.
I’m rounding up about 2/3 rough completion on my next book — just the first attempt of me throwing words on pages (of which there are currently 250+), and not including all the time it will take me to go back through for edits and revisions. Still, that’s a good chunk of words.
I finished up the latest episode of M3, which is linked at the top of this post and features Craig Spencer and his book, Witchcraft Unchained. Later this month, I’ll have another episode with Jack Chanek, returning to discuss his latest book, Tarot for the Magically Inclined. If you don’t like waiting, it’ll be up on Patreon for supporters in just a couple of days.
Okay, I can’t not talk about Stranger Things. For the past few weeks, Selene and I have prepped for the new release by rewatching Seasons 1 – 4. And sometime within the 48 hours surrounding Thanksgiving, we were able to binge the first few episodes of Season 5. If more episodes were available… we would have watched those, too. Can’t wait to see how everything ends!
And on Sunday, we watched Wicked: For Good. I’m happy to have finally seen the full story, but no musical will ever top Phantom for me.
That’s all for today, my friends. I’ve got a busy day of runarounds and… I might just be picking up our Christmas/Yule tree.
Stay tuned for more soon!
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