And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate and manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion. and and cruelty-free gift ideas for Valentine's Day or as any romantic gesture.

Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick Gidro. You can find me at joyful vegan.com

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Now first of all I want to say that everything I will be suggesting in today's episode can be applied to any day, any time.

I was inspired to do this episode,

specifically around Valentine's Day

when people think about the typical gifts they give

on this romantic holiday.

That's, well, that's, I guess maybe that would be first,

second then, if you are at all cynical and grumpy about Valentine's Day

that there is even such a thing, that it's not a real holiday whatever that means

that it's a contrived holiday which I think all holidays are that it's just a

commercial holiday well then don't make it be a

commercial holiday that we should celebrate love all year round and not just on

one day of the year yeah okay do that that it was invented by Hallmark to sell cards that it makes

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