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january 2018 an aging liberal hippy from the left coast skip to primary content skip to secondary content an aging liberal hippy from the left coast on the banks of the columbia river search main menu home about monthly archives january 2018 january 2018 posted on january 30 2018 by abbiewatters reply persevere is my word for this year looking at where i am in my life i really don t want to take on anything new but i do need to deepen my knowledge and commitment to the things i am doing politically i m going to persist in the resistance people power i continue to serve on the texting team for people power that means most days i send between 200 and 600 texts to people who have signed up with the aclu people power some of the texts are invitations to training for organizing some are invitations to organizational meetings and some are invitations to write phone or email political representatives they are all sent individually and answered individually thank goodness i have canned answers available but we individualize everything as much as possible remember the aclu is political but non partisan wall of us i continue to try to accomplish the four actions requested by wall of us every week for instance this week we were asked to contact legislators in favor of renewed daca protections to try to stop trump from rolling back michelle obama s healthy school lunch program to make calls and small donations to college dems in florida and to petition to restore voting rights to people who have served their sentences and been returned to society religiously i m going to really work at being moderator of olympia presbytery i moderated the installation service for a pastor who has been serving a little church for two years in a temporary assignment the church has under her leadership reached the place where they are financially able to have a pastor in a permanent position i walked with them as com representative for the first half of her time as a temporary supply i helped lead a day long planning retreat for the leadership council and heads of the major commissions and committees for the presbytery we have plans for all the stated meetings of presbytery we have dates potential special speakers and activities outlined for the next year we will be walking through the beatitudes at presbytery meetings interfaith community i ve been to the interfaith women s tea and tonight i m going to the interfaith conversation that is held monthly with local presbyterians lutherans episcopalians jews and muslims new worshiping communities i continue to serve on the presbytery s new worshipping communities task force creatively i m going to try to get down to working on my family history memoir fill in gaps on ancestry com i ve done a little bit of work on this but only in fits and starts i m taking a course here at franke tobey jones on writing memoirs keep up with my knitting i m turning out a couple of pairs of socks a week i gave away a lot of them at christmas but i m rebuilding my stash when it starts go exceed the space i ve allotted for it in the corner of the living room i ll take a sackful to the clothes closet personally i m going to keep up walking and try to add some resistance training 10 000 steps a day i m keeping up with this but not being obsessive about it 2 3 sessions of weight training a week i haven t been regular with this i will try to set up an appointment with the director of the wellness center to establish a set day and time for some personal training socially i m going to tend my current relationships gazebo group the gazebo group continues to thrive particularly with the younger less than 80 years old members of the community maintain congregational ties i attend weekly bible study and try to attend whatever extra worship services there may be i m not able to walk with the thursday group or go to book club usually because of moderatorial duties i would really appreciate it if you gentle readers would remind me of these intentions when you see me fluttering off after the latest cause du jour posted in bethany franke tobey jones interfaith housing coalition knitting one word persevere persistence politics tagged ancestry com bethany presbyterian church church gazebo group knitting olympia presbytery persevere politics walking leave a reply thoughts from martin luther king jr day posted on january 25 2018 by abbiewatters 1 i was born and grew up as a privileged white child i struggle to learn whether i have grown i wonder whether people who didn t grow up in the south during the 1940s and 1950s understand our relationship with folks of other races i understand that i was privileged but i also saw my grandparents who were born less than 25 years after the civil war treat african americans with love and respect even though it was tinged with paternalism on martin luther king jr s birthday i sent my two grown sons this note today as i look at the two of you i see two guys who are loving and able and who also don t seem to have any prejudices gender based racial sexual or anything else you might harbor feelings of superiority about other people but i never see you acting those feelings out i know that i personally think twice when i am in a group of the other sometimes with fear of black people sometimes with disgust sometimes with revulsion i admit that i sometimes have those feelings but i try never to let them show i don t remember ever talking to either of you about open acceptance of all people but apparently you picked it up by osmosis or something can you tell me what i did right to make you into the accepting men you are today i really want to know they sent me the following notes from bill it is a bit of lead by example it is a bit of nurture and nature you and dad rarely used terms of derision especially on a group level if ever it was related to a single person and even then a single action or situation you often did by the choices you made in how you spoke about people as well as to people you often did make it a point to be humble and to honor the person across from you or in your realm i can t remember a time that you stated specifically that _______ is good or bad more in the manner in which y all carried yourselves especially when others were specifically rude or condescending or mean or ugly to you this was an extension of how mama and papa were it is the very embodiment of unconditional love for all things all humanity each other and ourselves being humble and engaging with our talents and always giving even at our own expense that god is watching that our thoughts and actions will come back to us be they good bad or indifferent and that often the worst is the latter in a time that favors rhetoric y all provided actionable examples and enough verbal direction to clearly articulate a course of action and pathway to living in this way and from ray i ve been mulling over this since i received your email i would say you taught us true christian values of respect and caring i learned that no group is all good or bad that meant it was never true to say or even think racist things that carried over to all stuff i learned that i was a minority too sometimes a minority of one but a minority if i didn t like being treated or thought of badly i shouldn t do it to others sort of an extension to the golden rule we came from a diverse sub group of society i learned the only thing not tolerated was intolerance the military was hardly perfect but it made tolerance of people a principle and not a lofty goal i m maybe over simplifying this one we travelled and were exposed to other cultures and values we saw firsthand the values of diversity and inclusion i was taught to avoid hateful people and ideas to challenge and correct even if it made me an outsider and to walk away in protest when i couldn t change them it took getting out on my own to fully see this one you did teach us not to take ourselves too seriously to be self deprecating and by doing so to recognize the stupidity prejudices feed on you taught us not to be stupid these are not school taught lessons they were character lessons observed and valued because you our parents valued them you and dad talked about why the stereotypes were bad and how to see through them but in the end it was the fact you practiced what you preached that was the lesson posted in family honesty racial justice tagged mlk day waking up white 1 reply 2018 posted on january 1 2018 by abbiewatters reply i ve been struggling to figure out some intentions for the coming year i gave up on resolutions a while ago i m taking persistence as my word for the year i read this today that suggested we should take a year to go deeper rather than wider and it is really resonating with me i don t know whether i ll do this for a whole year but here at the beginning i think i m going to try something like that looking at where i am in my life i really don t want to take on anything new but i do need to deepen my knowledge and commitment to the things i am doing politically i m going to persist in the resistance people power wall of us religiously i m going to really work at being moderator of olympia presbytery interfaith community new worshiping communities creatively i m going to try to get down to working on my family history memoir fill in gaps on ancestry com keep up with my knitting personally i m going to keep up walking and try to add some resistance training 10 000 steps a day 2 3 sessions of weight training a week socially i m going to tend my current relationships gazebo group maintain congregational ties i would really appreciate it if you gentle readers would remind me of these intentions when you see me fluttering off after the latest cause du jour posted in persistence tagged ancestry com bethany presbyterian church church gazebo group knitting olympia presbytery politics walking leave a reply abbie watters search january 2018 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 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