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A MESSAGE FROM DAPHNE
Last year I called a Congressman’s office for the first time in my life. After being asked to do so by an organization that wanted him to be thanked for a way he’d voted, I called and got a very nice woman. “Please tell him I approve of the way he voted.” I said, feeling slightly out of my league and what do I know about politics anyway. Then I asked, “So, have you gotten a lot of calls?” And she said ”Oh yes! Over a thousand since yesterday noon! Why last time around we didn’t think anybody cared!” Then I remembered that ‘last time around’ I cared! I cared a lot!! I have cared for a long time! But that was the first time I’d called any elected official’s office, or even known how to do so for that matter. Well, these days I call. Whether to say I approve or I disapprove and I feel a better person and a better American, actually using our democracy. Recently I told a friend this and his reflexive response was, “they don’t tell them you called.” I turned to the Senator who was next to us, we both looked at him and he said to us “Yes, they tell us. If there has been a swarm of calls we know.” My focus is our precious natural environment. Saving, preserving, restoring every part of it. I am committed to bringing awareness to those who are living under the worst environmental conditions. 65% of Latinos in America for example, live in air not meeting federal standards and 1 out of 6 of these babies and children suffer asthma and other serious illnesses! There are asthma mobiles that go regularly to neighborhoods to refill inhalers!! This planet, an incredible organism, has done nothing but give to us. We turn to nature to remember who we are really. In the silence of it, the rawness, the infinite truth and beauty of it we remember we are a part of it, and just as miraculous. So have a browse, find the links leading you to your elected politicians, check out the links that are working hard on behalf of our air, water, land, urban neighborhoods, children, and join in! -- Daphne |
Hi! Welcome to my “Activism” page. I’m not so crazy about that word. It sounds
like we now are going to do something outside what is natural to us just being
ourselves. Like, “Now I am going to be an Activist (VO: that man’s serious movie
voice), I better make some signs, get a megaphone, raise my voice against
everything status quo”….you can....fine with me. You’ll see some close friends of
mine out there next to you. But I think it means being alive. Alive and truthful. Not
coaxed into a quiet unconsciousness wondering why other people’s lives seem more
interesting, exciting and/or more important. For me, being ACTIVE means
expressing myself as a human being on this planet of which we are all a part. So,
whether you call your self an activist or not is not the issue, the point is to extend into
the world in a way that feels right. You’ll know what that is if it meaningful and
energizing to you!
      
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