I believe that if you eat meat, it’s important to participate in the process. Picking up packaged meat at the grocery store doesn’t unearth the same feelings that killing and butchering an animal does. It bypasses the sensitivity, the emotions, and the shock that you would feel during animal processing. Even though I work for ranchers and am a big advocate for eating high quality pasture raised meat for human health, I still struggle with it sometimes. I love animals and feel connected to them. You’re ingesting another life. You’re using its flesh to give you energy. Animals and humans may have different designs of consciousness, but we both have breath, life, unique frequencies, and energy. Both deserve honor and respect. Instead of running from the difficult feelings and ignoring the killing and butchering process to keep myself comfortable, I participate. When I’m helping process animals, I think about my ancestors who did this for thousands of years before me. I express gratitude for the animal’s nourishment. I honor its body by using the energy and nutrients it gives me to positively contribute to the earth and humanity. Not everyone needs to be a hunter, butcher, or rancher. I’m certainly not a professional and don’t want to do that full time. But I join the process when I can so I can pay my respects towards the animal. So I can have more gratitude for the ranchers who take on the burden of dealing with death every day so their communities can be nourished. If you’re not quite ready to kill or handle a dead animal, simply praying for your meat and giving thanks for the animal before eating it is a great way to be more involved in the process. 🙏

This meme always pops in my head when dudes are going off about looksmaxing

Fairytale grounding

Sometimes I get tired of living in Austin. And then sometimes I drive 7 minutes to get Michelin star bbq sourced from local farms.

Me when someone asks how I feel about the Sydney Sweeney ad

Temp drops from 105 to 83 and here I am. Back to frothing corn and soy free eggs into my latte

My tried and true method for no burn tanning without sunscreen: Expose as much skin as possible mid-morning at UVA rise. At least 20 minutes. This preps your skin by initiating melanin production, allowing you to better and more safely absorb UVB later in the day. Staying inside all morning, going outside at noon, and then complaining that you are someone “who just burns easily” is a signaling and preparation issue, not a “you” issue.

When you’re having a bad body image week and a stranger asks what you do for your workouts:

Silently converting everyone at the gym to based living through my liquids

I hate to break it to you, but the guy hiking everyday and eating cliff bars and drinking Gatorade, is healthier than the chronically indoors biohacker influencer with a perfect diet

It’s trippy living in Texas during the summer to fall transition. You see a clear change in the light spectrum, the leaves start to carry a faint brown, and there are breezes that graze your face that just feel “fall”. And yet, it’s still a furnace.

How I look at the person working the farmer’s market booth who can’t tell me a single thing about their ‘organic’ farming practices

Everything I harvest reminds me of him