The extra dimension

If “vegan” means more to us than just food then it might be a new basis for our thinking. If we can ever see ourselves as guardians, protective, independence-encouraging and with no unnecessary over-dependencies, then we can approach the ideal. This is no more or less than looking about us to see what needs of our attention. We become a sort of patron saint of lost causes. We are on the side of the most vulnerable, the ones who no one else thinks about. Rewards include no praise heaped on us, no encouragement, no notice taken of what we do. But if approval doesn’t matter much to us then we might just make it, to become one of the planet’s natural caretakers.