Finding Success and My Voice

08/11/2010 Moon in Virgo

Today was great, I took my Snowflake Obsidian out with me instead of Citrine. It seemed to be the right fit for the day. I felt grounded and alert, with a little less free floating energy, and a lot less anxiety. The anxiety comes from knowing how good this project could be for the community, but recognizing my own imperfection as a messenger of the project. I don’t want to fail in gaining community involvement, and I think that it will become easier to communicate what we’re doing succinctly as we go along.

The highlights of the day for me were meeting an employee of the Water Bureau that was all about giving grunt labor to projects and events which we will definitely need to manifest the things that we want to see. Also, I talked to someone that cared about what we were doing and I was able to unleash a little of the emotions I feel about it without getting so intense as to scare her away. She was really nice, and asked challenging questions, which I welcome in our outreach. Challenging questions show that people are thinking about the ideas that we’re bringing to their doorsteps. To all of the people in the community that participated, even if it was brief and it ended in nothing tangible, thank you!

I started the day by doing a short canvass with Cyd, and ended it doing a partner canvass with Dwayne. I realized how much I enjoy partnering up when going out in the community. It must be the ability of a partner to keep one’s spirits up during the lulls and low points of the evening. I saw some people eating dinner on a table in the parking strip in front of their house. I didn’t want to interrupt their feast, but I thought that these are the kinds of events that can bring people together. When we break bread together, we participate in an age-old tradition of kinship and hospitality.

So I guess I’ll leave it at that for the day. In future postings I will be sure to talk more about what drives us to do this organizing work, and why it is so important to us. We don’t want any secrets between us and the community that we’re working in. We want to be as transparent as possible and are always open to suggestions and comments. Thanks Richmond, for all the connections, and for all of the love.