Celebrating Acorns to Oaks Networking Efforts Over the Decades and in October 2020 & Bee-yond!
To the Editor (of The Lakeville Journal of CT but all others too!)
Especially in New England, it is easy to consider October as a month of harvest, beauty and transition. In the Jewish faith and others, a time of reflection and renewal is marked as well.
A few decades ago I wrote to newspapers and started sharing the idea through flyers and notes of "Acorns to Oaks Networking" to highlight the gift of each person and nature in a forest of friends, growing from acorns to trusty oaks.
All people are counting in critical ways, whether for the census to assure services and funds (with a final filing date of 10/31/20) or voting locally and nationally if registered.
Acorns to Oaks Team Outreach (A-2020) is an umbrella term to count not only people on the planet in a meaningful effort to help one another but factors in aspects of permaculture with the ethics of "people care, earth care and resource share."
I have much more on these ideas and hopes to create practical networks on Livfully.org and welcome support at cppaton@yahoo.com to enrich the US of A-Miracle at this time.
"Oaktober 1st, 2020" is an official time to recognize the A-2020 efforts and join in making this a movement to sweep the country and wider world online.
The mission is to appreciate everyone and all biological parents, others who nurture and care for children.
We can all benefit from considering the legacies of each person's family and community. Now is the time to network among educational, spiritual, legal and social groups and forces.
We can create a caring, capable citizenry with respect for nature, animals of all kinds and the climate conditions in which we live at this critical time in our collective human family journey. Thanks for sharing the road and mission as team players in all walks of life.
--Catherine Palmer Paton
