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lydamorehouse) wrote2020-06-01 01:58 pm
lydamorehouse) wrote2020-06-01 01:58 pm
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Giving Back
Mason is off volunteering again today. He's been putting in regular four-hour shifts at a local church, feeding our neighbors and kiting up street medics. He told us yesterday that he'd like to get Red Cross certification so he could be a street medic in the future, if needed. (This may also be the thing that finally motivates him to learn to drive, too, because they are always looking for people to run transport to the hospital.) I think it's tough to be a social justice-minded teen right now. I think he'd really like to be in the front line protests, but he's sixteen. I'm so glad he's found a place to concentrate his vast energies for good. albeit behind the scenes.
Meanwhile, I will admit to some fatigue. The only thing I could do, politically, today was pick a couple of folks on the list of community organizations seeking funds to rebuild/support various efforts and donate: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/how-to-give-back-to-your-besieged-community/
Included in this list is a GoFundMe for George Floyd's survivors. Please circulate widely, if so moved.
I'd like to blog about some of the other things in my life, but to do so seems frivolous. Minneapolis/St. Paul is on fire for justice and the fact that my irises are blooming, the radishes sprouted, my one POUND bag of wildflower seeds showed up today, and something is wrong, maybe, with my jack-in-the-pulpit as it's pulpit has turned yellow (but the internet says so long as the leaves are fine, it's probably doing something natural) all seems minor in comparison.
Meanwhile, I will admit to some fatigue. The only thing I could do, politically, today was pick a couple of folks on the list of community organizations seeking funds to rebuild/support various efforts and donate: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/how-to-give-back-to-your-besieged-community/
Included in this list is a GoFundMe for George Floyd's survivors. Please circulate widely, if so moved.
I'd like to blog about some of the other things in my life, but to do so seems frivolous. Minneapolis/St. Paul is on fire for justice and the fact that my irises are blooming, the radishes sprouted, my one POUND bag of wildflower seeds showed up today, and something is wrong, maybe, with my jack-in-the-pulpit as it's pulpit has turned yellow (but the internet says so long as the leaves are fine, it's probably doing something natural) all seems minor in comparison.
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