I’ve Got THAT T-shirt
<June 2008>
I’ve been trying to “save the world” ever since I was about 14 years old. I attribute this to a constellation of circumstances: personal life history (including substantial “family of origin” dysfunctionality), genes (all those feisty Scot forebears who lived in clans), and a perspective-altering trip to Barbados at the time of my 14th birthday.
My efforts, then, have been going on for approximately 41 years at this writing. As I sometimes joke, I guess my career has been pretty much a bust – look at the state of the world! I not only haven’t saved it, it seems to develop more problems by the day!
But a friend gave me this very neat T-shirt for Christmas last year that says, “I am in the world to change the world” – and I really like that…the T-shirt, and the message. (1)
None of us can save the world – but for sure, we can all contribute to changing it.
Now, there’s a T-shirt we should all be proud to wear, hmmm?
Janet
(1) The T-shirt comes from a very neat group – the Syracuse Cultural Workers. You can check them out at http://syracuseculturalworkers.com/ and you really ought to! They sell the coolest stuff: T-shirts, books, posters, postcards, lawn signs, bumper stickers, cards, etc. – and they have the most wonderful daily thanksgiving accordion poster of “greetings and thanks.” Ask them to send you one of their catalogues – I promise you, you won’t be sorry!
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Janet McNeill
I'm a Mom, environmental activist & writer, incurable information-spreader, networker, & quotation collector & sharer. I read a lot, too.
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