#yearofaction

[collamusica]

I got woken up super early this morning by a phone call, after not getting to bed until 1a. I was up for a while, but I'm super uber tired. So naaaapping. #tiredpghqueer Also, trying to get a handle on finding employment that lets me do school/theatre. I don't like not having theatre in my life. And school is a means to my goals to help people. #20biteen💙💖💜 #yearofaction #yearoftakingcareofmyself (at Friendship (Pittsburgh)) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsnkssoAQPK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p32q4aa08szn

[latinxtalx-blog]

I haven't posted in a while. Personal life has taken a priority for a bit, however to begin the mental and emotional prep for what 2019 has in store I beseech everyone who reads this post......envision now what makes you want to get up every morning. Create a game plan to achieve and execute. Stop sitting around in the planning stage and just do! 2018 flew us by, 2019 will be that much more dangerously fast. Don’t waste another year just hoping! #realtalk #2019goals #dreamthenact #yearofaction #thisisyourtime (at Washington County, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrdoV4ygQD8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5y4mb15c7u82

[theyearofaction-blog]

🙌

https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/this-familys-blessing-box-is-so-pure-and-so-sweet?utm_term=.whoD73pXE#.upke1ODd3

[theyearofaction-blog]

On empathy

Through discomfort.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/06/what-learned-sleeping-rough-london

Impressive and powerful. 

[theyearofaction-blog]

Taking it to the streets

“Movements are born in the moments when abstract principles become concrete concerns.” 

An interesting read on the foundations of campaigns that drive change - Jelani Cobb writing in The New Yorker. And the role of purpose and focus. 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/the-return-of-civil-disobedience

[theyearofaction-blog]

Get up. Go out. Be in the world. Engage. Make yourself uncomfortable.

Yes, @suzanne_moore!

“Go find the places where you can make a difference – local campaigns or issues that you feel strongly about. Campaign, volunteer, organise. Fighting isn’t always dramatic. It is about many of us doing these small things.Once you turn and face the world and become involved, then you will be with other people. Complicated, flawed, lovely, argumentative people. This indeed is what the world is.”

https://www.the-pool.com/news-views/opinion/2016/52/suzanne-moore-a-lesson-learnt-in-2016-we-can-t-look-inwards-even-when-the-world-is-a-scary-place