Beating the Collywobbles
Happy August, everyone!
For this month’s Guest Column we feature a story by Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She submitted this story under the category called “Moments.” It is about a personal moment in an airport when this seemingly tireless crusader for animal rights found herself exhausted...and face to face with an opportunity to take yet another action. Would she let it go? Or would she do something? And if so....what? Her DTBF story is called “Beating the Collywobbles.” Check it out by linking to our Guest Column page (to the right, just above the top entry on this page). We welcome comments here!
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Johanna
For this month’s Guest Column we feature a story by Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She submitted this story under the category called “Moments.” It is about a personal moment in an airport when this seemingly tireless crusader for animal rights found herself exhausted...and face to face with an opportunity to take yet another action. Would she let it go? Or would she do something? And if so....what? Her DTBF story is called “Beating the Collywobbles.” Check it out by linking to our Guest Column page (to the right, just above the top entry on this page). We welcome comments here!
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Johanna
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Ingrid Newkirk's story of talking to the man with the dead deer t-shirt reminds me of a conversation I was just having with a good friend. She is working on a political campaign and told me that she's bashful about wearing the pins and giving out bumper stickers and talking to strangers about her candidate. I recalled that when I've worked on campaigns, or volunteered for causes, I have relished the opportunity to stick literature in peoples' hands, recruit strangers to volunteer, engage them in a conversation about the state of our country and our politics.
I had to think on why it was so easy and I realized that for me, it's a breeze, a privelege even, to advocate on behalf of something I truly believe in. Not only that, it feels like a duty to spread the word and get people thinking. But I empathized with my friend's shyness because I am surely the same way when it comes to advocating for ... myself. Right now I am trying to start my own business. I need to talk to strangers, to recruit them to my point of view, and engage them in a conversation about how I can help them be more effective in communicating about their own causes.
Ingrid's work on behalf of animals is a lot more urgent than getting my business going, but I have decided to take the lesson that being bashful is never an option when it comes to things you believe in. The trick is this: to believe in my own cause same as I've believed in other peoples'.
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