You are listening to the a normal cast.

As the holiday season looms, even the spiritually pure climbers like ourselves

can get caught up in the consumer frenzy ushered in by the insidious jingle bells of December.

But if we think about it, it's actually quite simple to do our part for the economy

while not dirting our souls with the cold lifeless touch of the likes of the Walton family.

First, wolf down that responsibly and locally grown vegan meal

and pass a moment meditating on the sacrifice the Kiemwan made for you.

Then slip into your hemp duds, trademarked, and hop on your sustainably sourced boutique

wooden bicycle and coast on down to that goat skin yurt where your curiously bearded

pal makes handcrafted climbing equipment. But before you taint your spirits

with business, the two of you should enjoy a kambucha, brewed with the bacteria from whom

you received expressed consent to be indentured into fermenting for you.

Mmm, yeasty.

Then your friend the cammaker lays out his wares, six bespoke cams he produced this year,

by hand, after mining the material himself.

Then he smelted the aluminum with only sunlight and the power of positive thinking.

He daintily carved the parts with sharpened stones carried from the summit of Mount Fuji.

And then they were assembled at a non-stressful pace by his well-paid, cheerful, and legal immigrant

laborer of unknown origins, because, hey, we're all global citizens after all.

You choose one of the finely crafted artisan cams that should help you on your small hands

project, but also happens to be giving off an aura perfectly aligned with your current astrological

angles.

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