Remember the three tenets
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swan_towerI have a back-burner project about a group of people involved in a really big movement. The project needs a lot more development, but I know their three tenets:
- You can’t do it all by yourself. We have to do it together.
- You can’t do it all at once. We have to do it bit by bit.
- Just because something is small, doesn’t make it not worth doing.
Welcome to this month’s tikkun olam open thread. Share with us all the things you’ve done to repair the world. If you’ve helped out with a cause or an individual person, if you’ve donated money or goods, if you’ve improved your own life in a way that will rebound on others, or if you’re planning on doing those things in the upcoming weeks, please tell us about it.
And remember tenet #3 above. Even small deeds are worth doing, and worth sharing.
Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2017-05-01 05:56 pm (UTC)I have been designing a tarot deck. It's called the Transgender Tarot. Card 0 of the Major Arcana (which I'll draw today), the Seeker, will feature a genderqueer person, skin tone Crayola color "mahogany", dancing in/with eir wheelchair.
I have been and shall continue to be actively being kind and helpful, to myself and to other people.
Assuming nothing goes utterly balls-up, I am adopting a kitty! This will make life better for Thea-kitty (who needs to be an only cat), for the other cats in Thea's current household (who will no longer be being attacked every time Thea catches a glimpse of them), for Thea's current people (who will no longer have to deal with keeping Thea and the other cats separated), for me (emotional support animal, 'nuff said), and hopefully for a bunch of other people (because if having Thea as my ESA works as intended, I'll have a lot more cope for things like being actively kind and helpful to other people).
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Date: 2017-05-01 08:36 pm (UTC)I don't feel that I did very much this month: in terms of politics, attended a ward committee meeting and a broader community meeting on the state Democratic party platform plus one Tax Rally and one March for Science.
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Date: 2017-05-01 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-05-01 10:21 pm (UTC)More petitions and emails, though I've slacked off on calling my reps directly.
I participated in both the Tax Day March and the Science March.
I've volunteered for Swing Left, though I haven't heard back on the things I offered to do, so I should follow up on that.
Something I've been doing for months, but forgot to mention until now: I've kept the heat several degrees colder than I normally do. This is kind of huge for me, because I hate being cold -- but my office is one of the warmest rooms in the house, so I can cope even if other areas are colder. And in the den, which is the coldest room, I have a space heater I sometimes use (which runs on our now-solar electricity instead of gas).
And on a professional front, my next novel is going to have a mixed-race heroine and a major secondary character who would, in our terms, be on the autism spectrum. After that, I'm looking at developing a project with a bisexual genderqueer protagonist. Apparently my subconscious's response to an upswing in bigotry is to say WELL OKAY THEN and roll up its sleeves?
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Date: 2017-05-02 12:42 am (UTC)"bisexual genderqueer protagonist"
!!!! <3 :-D
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Date: 2017-05-01 11:05 pm (UTC)This month, of course, there will be two. There's the one at my church as always, and the mail carriers one on the 13th.
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