Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.