Small steps forward

I was in the shower the other day, washing my face with my olive oil soap when it hit me – how little changes add up.

It’s one of those obvious things that I understand on a conscious level for ages, then I attain a mini-enlightenment and it suddenly becomes super clear, I suddenly know it at a much deeper level – like with the growing cycle a few months ago.

So anyway, I was in the shower and it occurred to me that the day we started using homemade soap, we immediately removed a whole lot of synthetic chemicals from our lives. And recently we’ve been getting all our fresh meat from Swillington Farm: previously we randomly bought local or organic but not as consistently as we do now, and whoosh, another set of chemicals as well as reduced food miles and improved animal welfare. Then yesterday, we had (expensive) bacon and eggs for lunch – the eggs were from our girls and instead of my usual HP, I had the wild plum ketchup I made the other week: both local, organic real food.

Just small steps, things that weren’t big decisions in themselves – in fact I couldn’t even call some of them even little decisions, just stuff we’ve started doing without thinking about it. I do like the occasional enforced big leap but I feel these almost-unnoticeable steps are more sustainable for us – soon we’ll be running a marathon without really noticing.

Sorry if this seems really obvious but as I said, I just suddenly feel like I know it on a deeper lever and wanted to share! :)

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