washing dishes: a father’s glimpses

In the Epilogue—with a subtitle of “The Genius and Mystery of Social Movements”—of Seven Social Movements that Changed America, Linda Gordon writes:

Large or small, social movements thrive only when they are enjoyable as well as purposeful…. Pleasure is joy de-politicizing or trivializing of their cause. Much of that pleasure comes from feeling part of a community. Although social movements occasionally reach across a nation, even the globe, they typically depend on person-to-person contact.

We must not forget this. We must not lose faith, vision of not only our inherent goodness, but a sort of fun that is contagious, pliable, and malleable.