“Throwing My Life into the Air”
I attended the West Coast USA Care of the Environment Workshop led by Diane Shisk, Irene Hong Ping Shen, and Alma Soongi Beck.
Since the workshop, I can envision more profoundly a world in which we don’t use fossil fuels and aren’t organized around greed and profit. This has been helpful, and clearly attributable to the work we did.
I’ve also found it easier to move forward.
I started an RC support group for reading all the information about climate change on the RC website (see <https://www.rc.org/climatechange>). Eight members of our small Community plan to meet weekly. We met today for the first time, and it went well.
In the wide world I initiated and organized a town hall meeting on the Green New Deal. The people who attended were mostly community leaders and activists of the Global Majority who hadn’t previously worked together. I had been willing to lead the meeting as an ally, but a young Black woman agreed to do it, so I happily supported her.
I am counseling on “throwing my current life into the air and going all-in [focusing fully] on climate change.” I’m discharging well so far.
Sacramento, California, USA
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