<p dir="ltr">Thanks Karen. Will work on it. Eunice</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 1:17 PM Ken Fisher via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="cid:43490DB7-1621-4A2E-8AD9-8278451B1DE8" alt="Screenshot 2025-01-09 at 1.01.58 PM.png" width="731"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Karen,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks for sharing this article.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Volunteers and volunteering are still essential to the life of rural villages, where I have lived over the past 32 years.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">And now, at 82 and moving back to the city, I continue to find voluntary engagement - the board of Theatre Kingston, the promotion of weekly rock & roll music for seniors, to name two.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">At the beginning of COVID, in Sharbot Lake I initiated a village campaign to welcome newcomers fleeing the cities.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">By and large, volunteering wasn’t their default setting.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yet for the rural service clubs, churches, and community associations - with their aging membership, that was the moment to be open and supportive of strangers joining.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Those groups that were ‘open minded’ and acted open, grew.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">How to make that national policy?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Love, </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ken</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 8, 2025, at 9:55 PM, Karen Snyder Troxel via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy’s tenure as US Surgeon General (since 2021, although he was also Surgeon General from 2013-2017) on January 7, 2025, wrote: “My Parting Prescription for America” which is “Community as the Formula for Fulfillment”. <div><br></div><div>His description of the importance of community speaks to my heart. I wonder how his message can make an impact on the problems he identifies. </div><div><br></div><div>The link is: <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/my-parting-prescription-for-america.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/my-parting-prescription-for-america.pdf</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>I would love to hear your responses.<div><br></div><div>Peace and love,</div><div><br></div><div>Karen Snyder Troxel</div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Dialogue mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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