Reflecto Girl’s getting a make-over
It hasn’t escaped my notice (since posting instalments of episodes from Jasmine stories) that some of those early stories could do with a new paint job!  So I am having fun painting the old pictures and I will stick them in the comics when they’re fit to be seen 🙂
All this week I’ve been in denial about my dissatisfaction with Where are you going Deidra? Â I was so excited about finishing it, and I’d set myself a target of the end of last week, that I didn’t pause to think about whether it really was finished. Â I was so focussed on getting across the message about the true cost of dairy farming, that I temporarily lost sight of my primary intention – to provide happy, positive, vegan inspiration for children, not to depress them. Â I think it’s ok for me to put more serious, grown up items on the blog occasionally, and I think it’s important to be open and truthful about the harsh realities of animal exploitation. Â I’m very glad I posted the heart-breaking story about the dairy cow who made the decision to hide one of her twins in the woods and give the farmer the other, rather than lose both. Â Everyone needs to know that. Â She deserves to have her story told and I know that it has touched the hearts of everyone who has read it. Â The same goes for my poem. Â But for the children I want to provide hope, happiness and enjoyment.
Positivity is the way forward and positivity, fun and entertainment is the way we want to encourage veganism at Violet’s Vegan Comics. Â We want to give something good to bright, happy, kind, veggie children. Â And we want to enlighten the instinctively compassionate little ones who haven’t heard of veganism but who are naturally inclined towards it. Â The stories on this website are for all children – even grown up ones – and I hope they will be enjoyed by everyone who reads them.
I therefore decided Where are you going Deidra? wasn’t finished. Â It needed a fully rounded happy ending that all children’s stories should have. Â So today I’ve finished it. Â I’ve worked all day and I’m pleased with it now.
Then I made double chocolate chip cookies (I added some fair trade cocoa to the recipe from Jasmine #3 ) which gave my day a very very satisfying ending indeed 🙂
VEGAN DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (not a brilliant photo but, take my word for it, they’re good!)
I’m tired, my knees ache, I have sore feet,
My belly is heavy with child inside.
Head is aching from the blistering heat,
What’s coming is worse, I’m desperate to hide.
****
Last year I cheerfully bore my first child,
All the discomfort and pain were worth it.
My love for him instant, instinctive, wild,
Overwhelmed me, the light in my heart lit.
****
I washed him and nursed him, my suckling angel,
My purpose in life was now clear to me –
To love him, protect him and teach him well.
Like any other mother I would be.
****
The sun set that day and the bright moon rose,
And we spent a blissful night together.
Brief nirvana before that bitter dose,
When hell swallowed me whole, meat and leather.
****
At dawn I heard their heavy stomping feet,
They approached us as I was feeding him.
Without shame they just pulled him off the teat,
I jumped and bellowed but couldn’t stop them.
****
I suppose I went out that day and grazed,
My anguish unheard, unnoticed even.
Like the others I stood, I laid down, dazed.
Can’t comprehend, can’t believe. I’m broken.
****
Now aching with the weight of my udder,
Infection inflames, I wince when they suck the
Milk from my teats, by machine, I shudder.
Bereft of my child, enslaved non-mother.
Go Vegan to keep mother and child together!
And look at Where are you going Deidra? – it’s got a happy ending 🙂
Inspired by the true story of an Australian dairy farmer turned vegan, Violet’s Veg*n e-Comics is delighted to present ‘Where are you going Deidra?’
We hope you enjoy it 🙂
Tick tock tick tock ….
Where are you going Deidra? will be published tomorrow.  You heard it here first!
Want to know where she’s going? Come back tomorrow 🙂
To be continued …..
Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next …. or, you can look in here now 🙂
And the third and final story from Jasmine #1 is:
To be continued ……
The end of this first episode of Megan and Flos will be posted here tomorrow, but if you want it now you can see it in full on the Jasmine #1 page 🙂
Thanks to Neptune’s Army of Rubbish Cleaners, who clean rubbish from the sea in real life, for inspiring the Venus Aqueous stories.
If you want to see what happens next, take a look at Jasmine #2 and Jasmine #3 🙂
To be continued …..
You know the drill – the 3rd episode will be on here tomorrow but if you don’t want to wait til then, just take a look at the first episode of Venus Aqueous in Jasmine #1 🙂
To be continued …….
But if you don’t want to wait until tomorrow, you can check out the whole story now in Jasmine – vegan comic for girls – issue #1
“Where are you going Deidra?” COMING SOON
Check out Jasmine #2 and Jasmine #3 to see the second and third episodes of Reflecto Girl 🙂
What else has Grandma done with it? And what will Renee do with it? Find out tomorrow in the next instalment or have a look now at the first episode of Reflecto Girl in  Jasmine #1, vegan comic for girls 🙂
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