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Comments on: Walk On https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/ Living Well with MS. Stories. Recipes. Hope. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.34 By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37584 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 23:03:27 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37584 Dear Donna, Thank you so much for sharing this summary of your mother’s unique and challenging life. I am so moved by it, and your love for her, and how when she came back into your life you learned to “enjoy her as she was.” What an amazing gift for me as a writer, too, that my words prompted these memories and your sharing of them with me. I am deeply honored. You are a dear heart as well. –Maria

]]> By: Donna Betts https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37583 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 20:14:22 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37583 So moving — beautifully written. Oh Mothers – I miss mine so much also. She was very talented musically also – playing the piano from age 3 yrs old. Sadly she suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia — but that was not who she was at all. She had a way of communicating her hallucinations/visions which made me see her life differently. She was missing for 30 years –such a long story – but when I found her again in 1993 –was able to spend the next 20 years with her in my life. As a child I was always trying to logically correct my Mother — so she could see the actual truth and not her imagined version. But when I found her again –myself now as an adult woman I could let her see the world as she saw it without trying to interfere — and I could enjoy her as she was. So much more to it than I can express here — but I do love your insights and I always wish you well. You are a dear heart…. Donna Betts

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37111 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:34:26 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37111 No not familiar.Yes, similar. I will call out BS or gas lighting or racial cruelty if I need to. Recognition is part of a profound learning curve. I know that as a teacher. But that’s only a start. It is above all, most important to supplant those forces with the power of compassion. And that takes some guts these days. May we all have those guts. Thanks, Debbie! <3

]]> By: Deborah https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37107 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:07:38 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37107 Hi Maria,
Are you a friend of Timber Hawkeye?
Here’s something he posted yesterday on facebook along the lines of your piece:
I’m not against Monsanto (calm down, keep reading), I’m pro organic food. I’m not angry at meat eaters, I simoly choose a plant-based diet for myself. I’m not against men and women getting married, but I see no reason why two women or men shouldn’t marry one another as well. Instead of bashing what I hate, I promote what I love (my blood pressure thanks me). Large corporations aren’t evil, I just try to support local businesses whenever I can. It’s that simple. I choose to operate from a place of love, not rage (it’s better for my health).

We are not all activists in the rioting sense of the word, but we all vote with our wallets. We decide which companies get to stay in business and which do not. For example: grocery stores in Hawaii will continue selling mangoes that are imported from Ecuador (even though mangoes grow right there on the island), as long as people in Hawaii keep buying those mangoes from Ecuador. Again: it’s that simple.

It’s been said that anger is a good motivator to do the “right thing,” but so is compassion. Anger can sometimes blind us in our actions until we’re so busy protesting against somethin, were actually disturbing the peace (not just around us but within).

I’ve been accused of sticking my head in the mud to avoid seeing the injustice in the world, but my eyes are actually wide open. That’s why I can see the beauty in the world as well. If you zoom in on the problem, it’s all you see. I say zoom out and look at the big picture every once in a while.

As Mother Teresa said, “If you invite me to an anti-war rally, I won’t go. But if you invite me to a pro-peace rally, I will be there!”

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate. Namaste. -Buddhist Boot Camp

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37099 Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:13:33 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37099 Thank you, Silvia, and bless you! I feel that way too–it’s very powerful and much needed and should not ever be overlooked or discounted, but practiced to the best of each of our abilities. <3

]]> By: Silvia https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37095 Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:14:53 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37095 Thank you from your german fan!
It really comforts me that you pactice Loving Kindness Meditation.
I feel that this is the most important thing in this time where hate seems to be everywhere.

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37089 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:05:00 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37089 Yes! Blessings back to you, dear Peggy!

]]> By: Peggy https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37088 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:21:45 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37088 Love really is the answer. Blessed be!

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37083 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:36:38 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37083 love back 🙂

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2018/10/29/walk-on/#comment-37082 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:36:08 +0000 https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7723#comment-37082 You’re welcome, LeAnn.

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