Declaration from the closet
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Yes I use reusable grocery bags.
Yes I hate high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and I make a big effort to not consume them. (woo hoo Mexican Coke movement!)
Yes I am passionate about recycling everything I can possibly recycle.
Yes I go through the garbage can at home and work to see if there is anything that needs to be recycled.
Yes I use vinegar as hair conditioner and deodorant and I try to use natural, organic body products.
Yes I go out of my way to drop off the glass recycling.
Yes I am a massage therapist and prefer alternative medicine.
Yes I try to eat organic and I want to have my own garden.
And yes I wear Dansko clogs.
But really do I have to be lumped with the hemp wearing, hairy pitted, dread locked, no showering hippies? These people can not be taken seriously though they are trying so hard to be heard and make a difference and I do appreciate that but you can’t really take someone serious when they are high and you have to hold your breath due to the body odor.
Maybe I will find out that I do have B.O. after posting this actually (right Michelle?) but really.
I love the earth and I want to keep our water supply clean and I want to support local businesses and make sure my kids don’t start puberty at 6 but I also do not want to be lumped in as a crazy person where you roll your eyes and just put up with me to get me to shut up.
I also do not want to be lumped with Al Gore. You can’t trust a man who wears blush especially one who wears too much blush.
So I’m left to wonder: Is it OK to be passionate about something anonymously?
(And yes, that was a Sex in the City moment for those of you who know what I’m talking about.)
No worries about being branded a hippie for your love of the earth and all things green. It seems to be becoming a popular point of view these days… some might consider it a trend, but I think with all of the available information and the internet people are just much more informed and trying to make smart decisions about what they put in their mouths and the trash.
I agree with many of your confessions above… yet I have not been able to make the deoderant switch… I sweat like a large hairy man and do so dislike seeing football size pit stains under my arms.
I think it’s perfectly ok to be concerned with the environment without being a Hippie.
And… I have smelled your pits enough to know that you don’t stink.
And… you have lovely, shiny, soft, beautiful hair.
And… you teach me good things all the time.
And…. I hate your antispam words, because I get them wrong EVERY time. It says OPYB with a red slash that looks like a line not a letter.