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For an organization like SpokaneFAVS, planning for the future is especially complex and tricky work.

It’s not that striving to be healthy and thrifty are unworthy desires; rather they are means to an end, and too much focus on these does not bring the quality of life we are searching for.

Winter Solstice was the celebrated end of two years as a spiritual guardian — a witness to the spiritual pursuits and development of a growing community of women that gathers on my farm once a month.

Join us this morning at 10 a.m. for a Coffee Talk discussion on consumerism. Coffee Talk will be at Indaba Coffee/The Book Parlor, 1425 W Broadway Ave.

I aspire to eat healthy, minimally processed foods that I prepare myself, with local ingredients, in my own kitchen. I also have a bottomless appetite for trash, and often indulge in curly fries, frozen pizza, and pretty much anything in burrito form.

Rampant consumerism can be seen as the exploitation of the consumer. It has imposed financial slavery to most, and much of the time is a liar at best.