it can be extra hard to keep your eyes on the level of good sustenance. There is such pressure on the wallet to go for the cheap.

Places I have found it pays off big to “pay the true cost” are in the food and culture categories. Food because those free range chicken eggs and organic foods taste and feel better. I don’t feel like I am poisoning myself.

The culture part is more subtle. In Hawaiian culture there is the concept of “pono”. Pono is loosely translated righteousness. There is a connotation to the word that is not exactly righteousness, but more “choosing to live right by choosing to do right”. People who live their lives this way are frequently musicians, artists of various sorts, and others who offer what they have and do for consumption, often by one person at a time. What they offer is personal, bathed in the appreciation of the planet.

Thanks for posting this goal and your entries.