We all catch ourselves buying into so called "beauty standards" from time to time. Here's a video of how those unrealistic expectations we're comparing ourselves to are actually manufactured (I know it's pretty long, but stick around for the "before" and "after" at the end):
Never made vegan cheesecake before (could never find Tofutti Cream Cheese anywhere, until recently), so we decided to go big this time. In honor of mother's day, for a mother who has been relatively deprived of cheesecake since the dawn of her children's vegan movement, we made: Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake, Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake, and sweet, tangy, glorious Original (not Plain) Cheesecake.
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So far it's survived the night, and we're looking for a wildlife rehabilitator in the area, so they can take care of it (our 5 cats are just dying to know why they're not allowed up in the attic today).
We decided to call it "Fawkes" for now. Here's some pictures I took at feeding time, doesn't Fawkes look like a baby dragon? It's amazing watching something so delicate and fierce moving around.
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Update on young Fawkes: We found a licensed rehabilitator to take him/her! She buddies the baby birds up with older rescues, and keeps them together so the grown-ups can teach the babies how to fly and everything. Oh, and she has also identified Fawkes as a sparrow.
Wow, that was a pretty thought-provoking quiz.
Here's my results, no huge surprises really:
| 1. | Unitarian Universalism (100%) |
| 2. | Secular Humanism (98%) |
| 3. | Liberal Quakers (87%) |
| 4. | Neo-Pagan (81%) |
| 5. | Theravada Buddhism (81%) |
| 6. | Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%) |
| 7. | New Age (71%) |
| 8. | Nontheist (66%) |
| 9. | Mahayana Buddhism (63%) |
| 10. | Reform Judaism (61%) |
| 11. | Taoism (60%) |
| 12. | Bahá'í Faith (49%) |
| 13. | Orthodox Quaker (49%) |
| 14. | Jainism (45%) |
| 15. | New Thought (44%) |
| 16. | Scientology (42%) |
| 17. | Sikhism (40%) |
| 18. | Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (34%) |
| 19. | Orthodox Judaism (31%) |
| 20. | Hinduism (26%) |
| 21. | Islam (24%) |
| 22. | Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (24%) |
| 23. | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (22%) |
| 24. | Seventh Day Adventist (20%) |
| 25. | Eastern Orthodox (14%) |
| 26. | Roman Catholic (14%) |
| 27. | Jehovah's Witness (11%) |
