Doing a lame-oid exercise for my “planning your public service career” homework, I was supposed to identify my desires. I wrote a list of things that was 3\/4 of a page long. Out of 34 listed items, only 10 weren’t variations on the theme of “increasing positive social integration\/connection\/etc.” Of the 10, 3 were athletic (which indirectly tied in through group races, and the ideas I have for how to do the transcontinental bikeride), 3 were material (all related to housing, which indirectly tied in by wanting roommates), 2 were self improvement things (organize and calm down), and the remaining two related to my teeth grinding and playing with neat ideas. <\/p>\n
The 24 ideas included things like: “never be alone for the holidays”, “raise a kid”, “have a boyfriend”, as well as “bring people closer together”, “engage with others in productive work”, to “Bring the U.S. to a point where we see caring for the sick, the homeless, and the hungry as our responsibility” and “increase respect for religious diversity as well as secular rationalism”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doing a lame-oid exercise for my “planning your public service career” homework, I was supposed to identify my desires. I wrote a list of things that was 3\/4 of a page long. Out of 34 listed items, only 10 weren’t variations on the theme of “increasing positive social integration\/connection\/etc.” Of the 10, 3 were athletic … Continue reading “Okay, now that’s revealing: Knitting the social fabric”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}