Day 099n: A Brother in every butcher … (July 22, 2019)
I then met up with Gunther, a pilgrim from Italy who was a butcher by trade, and shared a lovely, meaningful, conversation-laden stroll with him for a few miles to the hamlet of Leborero, where he offered to buy me a standard ice cream and I accepted the 100% mango vegan alternative instead (and noticed his eyebrows rise and his brain’s wheels turn at least a bit when I noted offhand that “I wouldn’t pay anyone to do anything to any animal that I wouldn’t want done to my dog or my cat”) …
“I refuse to commit to either Heaven and Hell. For you see, I have many a dear friend in both places.” ~ via Mark Twain
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