A quick note.\u00a0 Did phone calling for the Sierra Club tonight.\u00a0 This represents both a signal of my commitment and a raging contradiction for me.\u00a0 A phone call from a stranger, pitching something in which I have marginal to no interest or may find abhorrent irritates the hell out of me.\u00a0 Tonight I was the stranger.<\/p>\n
Some calls I made to other Sierra Club members who might volunteer to call swing voters.\u00a0 The rest of the calls were persuasion calls to swing voters in a Minnesota House of Representatives district in the general area of Shoreview.\u00a0 Most of these folks didn’t want to talk.\u00a0 I’m not good at making nice with people who’d rather be left alone, since I’m such a person myself and respect the inclination.<\/p>\n
Oh well, only one more night of calls.\u00a0 The last phoning I’ll do will be on election day, get out the vote calls.\u00a0 Those will be easy, straightforward.<\/p>\n
I did say these calls were a signal of my commitment.\u00a0 I felt a need to push myself out of my comfort zone.\u00a0 These calls do it.\u00a0\u00a0 My relationship with mother earth makes it clear to me that irritating some people in order to create a more favorable climate for eco-friendly legislation is worth it.<\/p>\n
Kate says she’s feeling sick.\u00a0 She gets exposed to everything new.\u00a0 Sometimes the new stuff slips by her otherwise amped up immune system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A quick note.\u00a0 Did phone calling for the Sierra Club tonight.\u00a0 This represents both a signal of my commitment and a raging contradiction for me.\u00a0 A phone call from a stranger, pitching something in which I have marginal to no interest or may find abhorrent irritates the hell out of me.\u00a0 Tonight I was the … Continue reading Tonight I Was the Stranger<\/span>