Beans and greens

This morning we had the chance to make up packets of bean soup mix again at the Day of Simple Giving at St Sophia's Church, and just like last year it was strangely satisfying.  The Girl and I also got into making necklacey-scarfy things out of knotted lengths of wool.  The Day was very well attended, and many of the activity stations had run out of materials within a couple of hours - it has become one of those events that you have to get to early.

In the afternoon the Man took me to the Polish Community Center in Albany to attend the annual VegFest.  It's a great event,and extremely well attended, but not really for vegetarians, much more for die-hard vegans - so, bean-lover though I am, I felt a little out of place.  The thing with most vegetarians is, we're not too evangelical about it.  It's our own lifestyle choice, but really we're fine with it if you'd rather have a ham sandwich.  For vegans it actually is a whole way of life, not to say a mission to convert the world.  We left feeling a little bit bad about ourselves because...honestly, we rather like milk, eggs and cheese.

It gave me pause, because I suspect I come over a little "vegan" when I'm banging on about Fair Trade.  Fellow converts love me for it, but I suspect there are many people who are impressed by my enthusiasm for ethical consumerism, while also finding it a bit off-putting - I'm that guilt-trip woman.  And of course there are those that think I'm just some crazy socialist...