Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

I finished reading How to Save the World in Your Spare Time while waiting in line for my film festival tickets. I enjoyed these quotations:

Life as an activist isn't what anyone would call normal. It is better.

I did not always know this.

I know of groups who have seized on the opportunity of major blizzards to invent meetings to cancel. With major weather events, cancellations are read out on the radio over and over again. "The meeting of the Friends of the Sacred Grove is cancelled due to the weather" is an announcement that gives your group profile -- and may surprise members who did not know there was supposed to be a meeting!

There is a lot of discussion these days about work-life balance. This may well be important if working in a corporate culture. However, I do not think it fits in thinking about our work in the environmental movement. Saving the world is not a nine-to-five commitment. Environmentally aware people do not stop recycling because they are on vacation. [...] This life is not work. This life is life.