Comments on: Can I Squeeze In A Little Love List?

By: bohemianmatka

bohemianmatka — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 06:02:00 +0000

I haven’t written much in a while, but I’ve been checking in and reading everyone’s posts… I hope y’all are having a wonderful Holiday season! Here’s to a beautiful, fantastic 2014 :)

By: Monika {windycityvegan}

Monika {windycityvegan} — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:55:00 +0000

Wishing you an amazing and transformative 2014! A quick love list to kick off my year ahead: Top Chef and Walking Dead marathons while I knit amigarumi! .|. teaching Nina how to knit (Santa brought Ni her very own needles+oodles of vegan yarn) .|. ringing in the new year with my not-so-little-anymore new year's baby, who managed to keep her eyes open just long enough to shout the countdown and blow out her birthday candles .|. birthday cake for breakfast :D .|. 78 degree weather on Christmas eve .|. overhearing my honey and his mum explaining to someone else that I only knit with vegan fibers which means NO WOOL! Nina's new "hip hop" shoes and the way she struts when she wears them .|. 2014 has been declared the year of vegan cheese (by me), the year of farm animal rescue (by Nina), and the year that Monika finally starts knitting socks (by Mar) . . . I'll likely start law school this autumn, so it's going to be a pretty busy year all around!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:36:00 +0000

Um, amazing! I only started reading your blog this year, yet I feel as though I know you and your successes make me really happy! So, I wish you and that beautiful boy of yours an amazing 2014, I hope you get to experience many more exceptional moments. (And can we please see more videos of ‘Ironman’ punching stuff? They’re just so adorable!)

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:54:00 +0000

Hi Brittany, thank you so much for writing this. I’m sorry it’s taken me a few days to respond – I wanted to wait until I had the time to really sit down with this. What you have written here is so beautiful and so moving for me. I can’t tell you how much it means to me to hear that my words have impacted you or helped you in some way. People talk a lot about the Internet and social media as this isolating, fractioning thing, but there is also so much community and connection to be had. I am so honored that you have found this space, and that you feel at home here!

And girl, CONGRATULATIONS on vet school. In a former life that was my intended path as well. I still dream about it sometimes. It always surprises me that even vets, who work all day with companion animals and must witness their rich and complex lives, can somehow be disconnected from the emotional truth of human-animal and animal-animal relationships. I’m so happy to hear that you will be able to be a voice for compassion and a new understanding of animals, in that world which will so benefit from it. You go do your thang girl, and kick ass. I’m so happy for you. Please keep in touch and share your vet school journey.

Much love,
~Sayward

By: Deirdre

Deirdre — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:37:00 +0000

Joy of joys! <3 your little tree. I'm loving twinkling lights, lentils and pomegranate,finishing my MS and moving onto revising the next, and lots of QT with family. xoxo

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:51:00 +0000

Hope you all had a Wonderful Holiday and have a Happy and Healthy 2014!
Love List!!!
-Beautiful snow on Christmas Eve and gorgeous winter sunrise on Christmas Morning
- A rare few days of vacation time from my day job, on one of which I stayed in my jammies all day, and curled up under a quilt my mother made for us for Christmas and read pretty much all day :)
-Finally scraped the money together to buy an exercise bike :) Now I have no excuse not to be active in the winter months!
-My crazy wonderful family :)
-Taking ona sewing project that and doing most of it myself with only a little help from my Mom :)

By: Brie

Brie — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:26:00 +0000

Here is my love list: kombucha, adventures in the middle of the night, choosing to love, early morning work outs that make me feel accomplished by 6:30 am, blankets in cold cars, easy conversation, the possibility of romance, snuggly dogs, gut laughs, and unexpected kindness.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:09:00 +0000

Can I say a little something? Sawyard, I have been religiously reading your posts and following your journey for the past few years. You are one of the most strong, intelligent, thoughtful, and caring people I have ever met (well, not really met, but I feel like I know you thorough your eloquently written posts and the way you make us feel like we are all part of one giant family), You have been the catalyst for me to change my life in ways I never expected I would/could ever even attempt to manage and it has been such an honor and a joy that I could count on your blog and the community you bring with your passion and dedication. Your posts and the topics you write about give me a sense of peace and belonging and make me feel that I am not alone in the struggle to end animal cruelty and to educate the public about such important issues such as the end to abuse, the perseverance of conservation biology, showing kindness when it is most needed, and being true to who you are and sticking up for your beliefs. This past year has been extremely difficult for me and my family, and your winter solstice post really resonated with me an made me cry, not tears of sadness, but tears of joy and tears of letting go of the past so I can finally make positive changes in the non-human animal communality and share that knowledge and passion amongst pet owners an among the general public as one. On winter solstice, as you said the darkest year of the night, I received the light,. I got into veterinary school and it has been such a blessing and I am so excited to start this new chapter of my journey to help animals in any way that I possibly can. My goal is to help change relationships among species, so that human and non-human animals can connect on so many levels of trust and friendship and have more loving and trusting relationships, and that I have the ability to be there to guide them to that place. I also hope to use a more holistic approach and use the power that mother nature provided us with originally to heal and protect those among us rather than use pharmaceuticals and unnecessary surgeries to help our animal companions and friends. I just wanted to thank you so much for showing me how with hard work, dedication, and a true passion for all living beings is really what makes life joyous and worth living. So Thank you my dear friend, for helping me see the light so clearly, and I hope that I can continue to reflect back to your resources on a consistent basis to remind me of the path I have chosen and why it is so important to spread our message of unyielding love and compassion.
-With love, Brittany

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 05:03:00 +0000

Aww, sounds like a great holiday. Happy New Year, too!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Hi Suz, so I’m doing a masters program in biology, not sure yet where I’ll focus. Thinking macroevolution or behavioral ecology. :-)