If the road to hell is actually paved with good intentions, I’m certainly on my way.

Hopefully, the coffee will be hot….

But now that I think about it, if it’s going to be my own personal hell, it will be from Starbucks.

And lukewarm.

Am I the only one Trying To Be Mindful, Trying to Do The Green Thing…and is totally paralyzed?

Every time I crack open the internet I am assaulted by proof that I will never be as lean, green and in tune with the world as I should be.  And I am constantly shamed by the plethora of wrong decisions I am making.

Take milk for example.

I have 5 sons.

I know I know, I am solely responsible for exploding the population, but it is too late to send them back (and frankly, I don’t think they’d fit).

We go through more than a gallon of skim milk a day.
I know, I know, cows in pens, mucus, hormones, PLASTIC BOTTLES…

But seriously. If I had a local, organic dairy deliver to my house it would be, what, 14 glass half gallon jugs a week? Where would they go? And who would rinse them out? And how would I pay for all that?

The economic truth is I buy the store brand. I hate to even pay for the special milk in the light-block-bottles. So not only am I polluting the environment, torturing cows and generating gobs of mucus, but I am robbing my children of essential nutrients that are killed by light.

I’d like to think I am doing my part? Making a difference?

I guess it could be worse. I could be going through that many 2 liter bottles of Pepsi in a week.

Help?

They say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

I am on track to be the incredible hulk: really strong and kinda green.