Purpose creates meaning, offers a sense of direction and helps in guiding a path through existence. The purpose of something is its reason for existing. What is WES’s purpose? The WES Constitution stipulates that its Statement of Purpose (SoP) is reviewed every five years. Next spring, it will once again be time to review our … Continue reading WES Blog — Do You Feel a Need to State Your Purpose?
Thanks to all that made this year’s Stone Soup Celebration a true WES Village experience. Rewatch the Platform Service on our Facebook Page. Check out the lovely video of Stone Soup memories and at-home cooking fun. and, The 2020 version of the WES Recipe book! (Its a large PDF file. Please give you computer time to … Continue reading Happy Stone Soup Sunday
From the Biology Book Group Interested in knowing more about our current plague? A new book tells us how it started, why it is so unprecedented, how it may end, and how it will certainly change us. The book is “Apollo’s Arrow” by Nicholas Christakis. Christakis is the Director of the Human Nature Laboratory at … Continue reading Human Nature in the Time of Covid-19
From Lyn Cox, Interim Leader Dear Ones,If the last month has taught us anything, it is that change is possible. We’ve also learned that change takes time, and that we humans bring a lot of emotions to the process of change. Adaptation is challenging, exciting, confusing, and invigorating. Felix Adler once said, “We cannot adopt … Continue reading WES Blog — An Invitation
Goodness Gracious! I don’t know about you, but I have received so many emails and text messages over the last two weeks from every company that I have ever signed up for emails from. I am just now starting to recover from information overload and from what seems like some sort of anxiety crash. Last … Continue reading WES Blog — Connection vs Distance vs Burn Out vs Connection
Happy Election Day! November is a month of healing. This month, we’ll return to tender subjects in our nation’s history, we’ll think about how we relate in healthy ways to our families and our communities, and we’ll give thanks for the healers among us. We reflect on healing this month, yet we can’t fully heal … Continue reading WES Blog — Healing, Empowerment, Listening
Join us for a weekend of FREE film and panels or drop in for an afternoon or evening.WES volunteers created the first film festival devoted to immigrant stories. Now seven years later, the festival continues to thrive thanks to volunteer efforts. IFF 2020 is ready to go…are you?Thanks to the hard work of our all-volunteer Steering … Continue reading IFF 2020 is ready to go…are you?
A blog from the WES Board of Trustees “Engagement” It’s a word at once very simple and very hard to define. What, indeed, makes any of us an “engaged” member of the Washington Ethical Society? Is engagement measured by the number of platforms we attend each year, the number of committees and special teams we … Continue reading WES BLOG – The 2020 Fall Membership Meeting: One Time For Engagement
What’s the best thing you can do for your immigrant neighbors? Many families came to the DMV community to escape dire poverty, war and gang violence. The Food Justice Initiative (FJI) does not ask people who are starving about their immigration status. However, nearly all are undocumented. This is critical because they receive NOTHING … Continue reading From the WES Immigration Team
Phonebanking Campaigns Reclaim Our Vote’s postcard campaigns have wrapped up – many thanks to all the WES members who participated! ROV now has phone banks for Arizona, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas with Mississippi coming soon. There are group phone banks daily. You can call from home – phone banks are … Continue reading Update: Reclaim Our Vote Efforts
