Canvassing

[xenologer]

I'm proud of the canvassing work I've done, but this is precisely why I don't ever intend to do it again. It changed me in a lot of ways for the better, tempered and toughened me in ways that I treasure, but it wasn't without a price.

"A group that produces or tolerates burnout undoes all its other efforts to restore immanent value, for we cannot truly value ourselves or others when we treat each other like Appalachian hillsides, to be strip-mined for what is valuable and then abandoned." -Starhawk

Comments

[sorayuy.livejournal.com]

After some of the drama I remember you posting about, I would be concerned for your mental health if you were doing canvassing work again (to say nothing of quietly contacting Brian and telling him "get your wife to therapy, man! she's lost it! =O")

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I hear you. I hope there's a way, though, for you to use your kickass abilities to make a difference in that US Senate race this year, without it taking a lot out of you.

Easy for me to lecture. My state has nothing but safe incumbents this time around.