REMEMBERING

Covid-19 Pandemic experiences make lasting memories.
Here are some memories sent by a few neighbors.
What will you be remembering?
Ӣ Remembering the ways of being present. There are ways of being present that do not require us to be physically present in times like these.
Ӣ Remembering there was a time when people wrote letters to one another to be present in mind, heart, and spirit.
Ӣ Remembering teachers who needed to quickly increase technical skills for online teaching.
Ӣ Remembering Grocery stores are ransacked and Charmin Ultra Soft essentially replaces the dollar as the official U.S. currency.
Ӣ Remembering the clean skies as we stopped driving our cars.
Ӣ Remembering the birds singing and the flowers blooming in this glorious spring.
Ӣ Remembering we sang when we washed our hands.
”¢ Remembering how challenging it was to learn the idiosyncrsies and benefits of “Zoom” conversations, meetings, and learning.
Ӣ Remembering when we have the will we can pay the unemployed, empty the jails, feed the hungry, and house the homeless.
Ӣ Remembering whose work is essential.
Ӣ Remembering that the essential workers still had to fight for a living wage and safe working conditions.
”¢ Remembering March 2020 was the first month in eighteen years without a school shooting in the U.S.… Read the rest “REMEMBERING”

Mobile Outreach and Outdoor Drop-In (MOODI)

MOODI is grounded in the cultural wellness approaches to moving from race to culture and community healings. The Cultural Wellness Center is located one block away from Peavey Park on the Hope community campus. The MOODI model is created by partners who have joined forces over the years to reverse the practice of individualism, loss of community, and loss of culture. Our response to the Corona-virus is to show up in community, practice social distancing but share our resources including cultural and spiritual resource because we know that in this we must unite. Our effort is a collaboration between the people from the Cultural Wellness Center and Anam Cara (an incubated initiative of the CWC) along with community volunteers, health, social, and outreach workers.

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