Comments on: All the Gay Parties http://thetotalfemme.com/2009/09/24/all-the-gay-parties/ Your Friendly Neighborhood Femme Mom Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: FG http://thetotalfemme.com/2009/09/24/all-the-gay-parties/#comment-58 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:07:54 +0000 http://thetotalfemme.com/?p=122#comment-58 oh i so hear you on this. building community. maybe it’s just that there are people who dearly value it and people who don’t. i feel like i can’t get enough — organize potlucks! go on outings! have meetings where you talk about all the important stuff that’s not going on and figure out how to make it happen! etc!!

but i find myself shouting into a void sometimes, and i have to realize that it’s partly just my own feelings of loneliness that spur me to desire collective action. so i take small steps to reach out to people, and sometimes it turns into something a little bigger. your list of goals is amazing, all so important.

so do keep on with it! it’s so worth it. and never doubt that you’re doing things to change it and raise awareness, even if it feels like nothing is happening. when i was being homeschooled, the librarians used to be the linch pins who connected new homeschooling families with us when they moved to town. after all, everyone goes to the library, and so when the librarians found out they would give the new families my mom’s contact info. maybe that would be a good way to reach out across the whole town. just a thought!

xx fg

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