Join us on Tuesday, January 5th from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Avenue Do you believe that EVERYONE and EVERY LIFE matters? Do you think that people should take care of one another no matter what obstacles may interfere? Are you not afraid to challenge the status quo? If so, you must come
» Read more“Men and women have shaved heads and are lying on the floor. It’s just like the pictures you see of the institutions in the 1950s.” Ashley and I spent a Thursday and Friday in Athens with citizen advocacy coordinators from around Georgia. We all get together four or five times a year for what we call “Think and Drink.”
» Read moreI was visiting a website the other day and began thinking about the difference between public relations and reality. Public relations is the business of managing information to create a set of ideas in the minds of other people. It can be done in many ways. Television, YouTube, newspapers, newsletters, blogs, Facebook and Twitter are all media-based public relations
» Read moreThe light of the lamp is going out in all directions dispelling the darkness, and yet it is has no knowledge of what it is doing. A magnet does not act from volition; yet it continually draws objects unto itself. These are but illustrations of how we are continually exerting an influence upon those about us even though we may
» Read moreEach person who becomes a citizen advocate does so on behalf of an individual person. This is one of the strengths of citizen advocacy. It allows one person to get to know another person as an individual human being. Perceptions, ideas and efforts spring from knowing the individual person as a unique soul. Over the years we have come
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