I loved and will always love Kevin Fisher-Paulson, even though his "Be kind" supplication to us didn't include be kind to factory-farmed animals.  There was a lovely reception after the service for him at The Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church at 100 Diamond yesterday.  There was nothing vegan.

I know he had at least one vegan friend.  Did that friend die?  He once said that he'd be at the home of a vegan on Thanksgiving Day, so he would probably be pushing tofu around his plate--an unfortunate stereotype of vegans.  Here's the passage:  I'm writing a separate tribute to Kevin Fisher-Paulson, but here I'll just say that "courage to change" can apply to diet,and saying that Mr. Sasb has turned vegan "as part of his midlife crisis" does not show how enlightened Kevin Fisher-Paulson was in most ways.

November 21, 2017

I want to be grateful for tradition, but what I really should be grateful for is the courage to change. We’ve transplanted Thanksgiving this year. Since 2001, we’ve hosted an orphan holiday in the blue bungalow, but for the first time ever, our boys are spending the fourth Thursday in November at the Sasbs, who have seen each and every one of our mood swings, and yet still invited us to break bread. As part of his midlife crisis, Mr. Sasb has turned vegan, and despite all my assurances that the turkey himself was a strict vegetarian, so certainly the meat would be vegan, it is likely that I will be pushing a hunk of tofu around my plate tomorrow.