About ShiraDestProjectDoBetter
Shira Destinie Jones is founder of #ProjectDoBetter, a long term plan proposal for community building, and a published poet, academic author, and advocate for improving our #PublicDomainInfrastructure. Her other book, Stayed on Freedom's Call, on Black-Jewish Cooperation in DC, is freely available via the Internet Archive. She has organized community events such as film discussions, multi-ethnic song events, and cooperative presentations, and is a native of Washington, DC. She promotes peaceful planning, NVC and the Holocene Calendar, and is also a writer.
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Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better 
I remember nimby battles from my time writing for the county’s mental health commission. There was a great need for transitional residences for mentally ill people, but where to place them? NIMBY. I wrote a pamphlet describing the residences, staffing, nature of occupants (always non-violent) that was used to educate people and assuage their concerns.
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Thank you, Annie: how did the pamphlet get publicized -did you have it delivered door to door in the neighborhood, or via mail, or other method? And how was it received?
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I remember it was well received, but I wasn’t involved in the distribution, so unfortunately, I can’t answer that question. I was a freelance writer, not a county employee.
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I’m glad that you got good feedback, at least, and that it sounds like the pamphlet was of help in educating and persuading.
Thank you for sharing that with us, Annie!
It gives more hope!
Stay safe,
-Shira
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It would seem that education, both targeted, and general, are helpful in these types of situations for you Humans. We Minbari are content to learn what we need to know, when we need to know it. But for us, serving others is the highest calling, thus we do not suffer from this disease of which you speak.
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And both forms of education must be applied over the short-term, mid-range, and long term time frames, continuously.
Not so easy, for us Human Beings.
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I think this is also a good lesson in evaluating each situation based on the facts of the unique situation and not going immediately to the knee-jerk NIMBY reaction.
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Thank you, JYP.
This is a large part of why I try to put critical thinking skills into various different contexts.
The world is a complex place, but it does not have to be overwhelmingly complex, with the right set of skills and practice in using them.
Unlike finding ‘built’ or ‘found’ family, which is not merely a matter of giving until you drop, but take some kind of luck or magic for which I have not yet found the formula.
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😦
*GREAT BIG COVID-free bear hugs* if you want them! Shabbat shalom!
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Yes, Ma’am, I do, thank you!
And
Huge Safe Air Hugs to you, too, JYP!
Shabbat Shalom
(and almost Chodesh Tov! *time to find the donut crumbs* Oh, wait, you’re too young to remember that commercial!
A short fat bald guy in white bakers outfit zombie-walks, 4am, to Dunkin Donuts, saying *time to make the donuts* -commercial in NY/NJ area back in 1975, if I recall my very early childhood correctly!!)
Stay safe,
-s.
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I feel like I do remember the catch phrase, although I don’t recall the commercial. In any case, I’ve never liked donuts. I do like Dunkin Donuts sandwiches and coffee though and thinking about Dunkin is making me hungry…(and also thinking of ways to procrastinate on Pesach cleaning!)
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LOL! Oops: sorry!
🙂
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Hugs!
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