STOCKPILE JOY
Volunteer Fair with Demcast & The Union! Baby Come Back!
Here we are again, on the threshold of the biggest election year of our lives. And right now is the time to put that out of your mind completely.
Turn off the news. Leave the world behind for a little while. It'll be there when you get back.
Eat chocolate cake for breakfast. Go to three museums in a day. Tell someone how much you love them. (That person can be yourself.) Meditate. Don’t worry if you fall asleep. Write a poem. Buy a remote control fart machine. (If you've had chocolate cake for breakfast, you may not need one.) Go hear live music. Cheer the loudest you’ve ever cheered. Even if it sucks. Especially if it sucks! Forgive someone you never thought you’d forgive. (That person can be yourself.) And use these, the longest nights of the year, to sleep, sleep, sleep so long you wake up awash in dreams.
Stockpile joy.
And when we wake up in the new year, we’ll harness this joy to wake up the whole world, gentle as the sunrise, and as unstoppable.
–Jason Berlin, Founder
(We'll be taking our own advice, so no Substack next week. We'll come roaring back the first week of 2024!)
Here are two things (among the many, many options) to do the first week of the New Year (and Happy New Year, btw!):
#1 - Wednesday, January 10, 5p PT. First Volunteer Fair of 2024 with our partners The Union and Demcast. Find out about all the fun ways to get involved.
#2 - Thursday, January 11, 1p PT Baby Come Back Phonebank with Jason Berlin! This time we’re calling former phonebankers and asking them to phonebank. We need phonebankers in order to engage more phonebankers, ya dig?!