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Elise Granata's avatar

"Those of us who thirst for justice need to throw the best parties, is what I’m saying."

THIS IS IT!!!!! I 1000000% feel this in my bones. I'm also always feeling the tension of the *importance* of justice with the relative *frivolity* of parties (or anything that looks to be primarily social on its face) but the two need each other!

AND one of my favorite videos on the internet at the end? Come on!! We've been chatting about throwing a Bingo Night + pancake breakfast situation at the co-op; I really just want to copy programming from any VFW sign I pass by these days.

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Asha Sanaker's avatar

I'm on the board of our local social justice public art project, Ithaca Murals. We were just talking at our meeting last week about what each of us is hoping to do more of in the coming year. I was a professional finance manager for a lot of years and so I tend to volunteer to do more of that, alone in my house. Instead, I said, "Be together in community! Because I'm kind of a hermit and a crank and I can always manufacture a reason to stay home. But this year I want to show up for all the community painting parties. I want to get covered with random paint and talk to people I don't know, and spot people on ladders, and get used to just being with people again, creating something beautiful." I think I'm also going to now always bring soup or chili or pie because you're right, there's nothing better than that.

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