Baby it's cold outside

Listening to the nails pop and the siding snap kept me up for a while last night.  Mostly I was thinking about how fortunate we are to have a snug house and a safe place to sleep at night.  The world is a crazy place.

Sixty million for six years to play baseball.
Over twenty people missing because a cruise ship captain was careless.
Starvation ignored (again) in Africa.

I do my best for my family most of the time.  Sometimes I am lazy and just coast along.  I am not proud of that but it is true.  I think that in this way I am probably no different than most people.  I want to believe that this apathy is curable.  I want to believe I can root it out of myself, and hope that my quiet attempt to do so will have a positive impact on the world.  I am going to try to use my knowledge to better myself.  I hope this will also help me to make the world a bit more just.

To that end I am using what I know about the cocoa industry to look into ways to stop supporting the slavery and abuse of those who labour to produce a treat that is delicious but also not necessary.  Chocolate.  I am going to do my best to give it up and only consume fair trade chocolate products.  Having done very little research into it's availabilty and forms, I think I am setting myself up for a true test of my determination and willpower.  It's one thing to say you are going to do something, and it's another to say it with an informed mind.  Likely I am setting myself up for a frustrating ride. 

Laziness should not be reason why something is not done.  This is my attempt to help eliminate the fact that, in my case, it often is.