{"id":6309,"date":"2015-08-05T18:27:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T22:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:07:14","slug":"so-long-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2015\/08\/05\/so-long-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/prints-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6310\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/prints-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"prints-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">So we&#8217;ve come to the end of this experience and it ends with a whimper instead of a bang. All of the summer camps, volunteers,community meetings, protests, and gardening just didn&#8217;t happen this week. I mean, there has been stuff to do at Hope House, but not nearly as much as previous weeks. As we did today&#8217;s garden work- harvesting, weeding and watering, it was bittersweet because I knew the end was near. Everyone split the collard greens, arugula, potatoes and onions we harvested.Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be working from home. I guess they thought it would be a nice gesture. I found myself still raking leaves as everyone put away the tools for the day. I wanted it to look perfect as I left with \u00a0my bucket of produce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">I&#8217;m going to miss going to work at Voices for Earth Justice everyday. \u00a0Not only was it a job, but a job that represents some of the major things I stand for- equality, justice, stewardship of the planet, community building. \u00a0I could go on and on, but I think you get my point. I&#8217;ve met so many amazing people who are making a difference in their own way and it put things into perspective for me. I don&#8217;t have to try to save the world by myself. \u00a0There is a position for each and every one of us. \u00a0The key is working together to get things done. The transformation at Hope House this summer is incredible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">As I read over my letter to myself at the beginning of the program, I laughed because I did exactly what I told myself not to do- put too much pressure on myself! How so? Hmmm, maybe by deciding to film my summer experience and show it as a documentary. How&#8217;s that for pressure? I can laugh about it because the work is done and I had a blast doing it. If I could do it all again, I&#8217;d probably add more interviews. That&#8217;s just how I roll. Pressure either bursts pipes or makes diamonds. \u00a0I guess that&#8217;s the Michigan Difference!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2015\/08\/img_20150730_173721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6311\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2015\/08\/img_20150730_173721.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_20150730_173721\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/img_20150724_102453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6312\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/img_20150724_102453.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_20150724_102453\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/img_20150724_102453.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/img_20150724_102453-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/img_20150724_102453-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2015\/08\/img_20150724_102453-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve come to the end of this experience and it ends with a whimper instead of a bang. All of the summer camps, volunteers,community meetings, protests, and gardening just didn&#8217;t happen this week. I mean, there has been stuff to do at Hope House, but not nearly as much as previous weeks. As we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcbrp-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16058,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/16058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}