Posts Tagged ‘volunteer burnout’
Gift economy is not just about giving things away
I want to clear something up. When I talk about gift economy, people sometimes hear: everything is free, nobody gets paid, everyone just gives and gives until they have nothing left. That is not what I mean. That is actually the opposite of what I mean. The gift economy I am building toward is one…
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She called from a ski slope in Japan to tell me I was too much. I had been on the Bandero for five months. This is the story of what those months were, how they ended, and what the pattern of movements eating their own people looks like from the inside.
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She could barely walk. That is the first image I have of her. A woman who had given fifty years to a wildlife sanctuary, and me choosing to stay and give everything I had. An honest story about what that cost, what it taught me, and why it became the foundation of Shikibuntu.
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