gra·no·la/grəˈnōlə/
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- Noun: A kind of breakfast cereal consisting typically of rolled oats, brown sugar or honey, dried fruit, and nuts.
- Adjective: Used to describe people who are environmentally aware
(flower child, tree-hugger), open-minded, left-winged, socially aware
and active, queer or queer-positive, anti-oppressive/discriminatory
(racial, sexual, gender, class, age, etc.) with an organic and natural
emphasis on living, who will usually refrain from consuming or using
anything containing animals and animal by-products (for health and/or
environmental reasons), as well as limit consumption of what he or she
does consume, as granola people are usually concerned about wasting
resources. Usually buy only fair-trade goods and refrain from buying
from large corporations, as most exploit the environment as well as
their workers, which goes against granola core values. The choice of not
removing body hair (see amazon)
and drug use are not characteristics that define granola people, and
people, regardless of granola status, may or may not partake in said
activities. This definition is sometimes confused with hippy.
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crunch·y/kruhn-chee/
- Adjective: crisp; brittle.
Adjective: Sometimes, crunchy granola . Informal . health-conscious and environmentally aware: one of those crunchy guys who insists on biking to work.
At what point in your life is it still acceptable to start becoming a little more granola or crunchy? In your early twenties is when you are supposed to be forming who you are, molding yourself and it is acceptable because people know that that is when you are supposed to be defining your lifestyle. But is it okay at 32? I have been married for over 10 years and have four children over the age of 5, shouldn't I already be defined and molded? Would it be too crazy to step out and be someone new, different? I asked my self these same questions the other day and I say YES! I really have already been this person only on a smaller scale. I was the one who didn't want to vaccinate my children right away, and didn't . I was the one who wanted to have natural childbirth, and did. I was the one who wanted to breastfeed until my kids were a year old, and did! I was the one who wanted to only buy milk without HGH, and do. So you see... I have always been this person that I keep questioning myself about just only on a smaller scale. I am at a point in my life where I want to expand that lifestyle little and I am starting this blog so y'all can follow me on the "crunchy things" I am incorporating into our family. I hope you enjoy and that it enspires you to be a little more granola with me.
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"Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life . . . I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side." -- Anne Lamott
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