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Now Is the Month of Maying by Sherri Rase While we know from recent experience that April is the cruelest month, first giving us balmy spring days then plunging us back to icy depths all within about 72 hours, May is when the flowers come.
help children or adults learn to read, if you are willing to drive an elder person to the grocery store, these are more solitary pursuits. However you choose to do it, your hands and skills are needed.
May is Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, and in New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey, mid-May will bring Pride. This is one of the earliest Pride celebrations in the region and it will really put you in the mood for what June will bring all over the United States. How do we connect with people real-time and experience them authentically the way we experience them virtually? Easy — volunteer!
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at something? Volunteer! There’s a lot less pressure and those skills may be applied in your work life and your life outside of work. Imagine what it takes to organize and event for 25,000 of your closest friends — what permitting is involved, what should you serve for food and drink, what kind of entertainment? When should we start visualizing great weather? Now — you’ve organized that event. Is it really that difficult to plan a soiree for 30 people in your office?
There is some volunteer activity that requires group participation. If you are part of GAAMC’s contingent marching in Jersey Pride’s parade June 1st, North Jersey Pride’s parade in mid-June, or NYC Pride at the end of the month, you are one of many. If you are volunteering to give platelets or blood (if you’re able to donate — don’t get me started on the ban on gay men giving blood!), if you are willing to
Give yourself the chance to see what you’re made of by stretching and reaching and learning. Lifelong learning will keep you young, so start now. You will get much more from the experience than you put in, so take that extra step and keep giving back. You will feel FABULOUS!
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Q-munity Calendar........................................ page 6 GSE Board Chair Receives Rutgers Law School LGBTQ Award ................ page 9 App Happy .................................................. page 9 Board Minutes for January 2014..................... page 10 Riddle Me This! ........................................... page 10 Dancing To Architecture ................................ page 11 GAAMC Information ...................................... page 12 Dancing To Architecture Extra: 25 Great, Out, Under-Appreciated 21st Century Albums........ page 13