Richard Carlson

My Interests:

music, film, nature, education, politics

Political Skills:

writing

Favorite Quote:

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time---just one, one, one. So you begin. I began---I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.... The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin---one, one, one.

---Mother Teresa

About Me:

Activism began in college way back in the '50s, with the Civil Rights lunch counter demonstrations. Trained for Freedom Rides and with PIRG.
Been a teacher (literature, poetry, theater, the social studies) mostly secondary (public and private) but also poverty and other government projects (back when we believed the state was useful, even fun, as a gathering place) and in psychiatric work. Lately ascended into elementary and special education. Lately given over to a garden in an ancient creekbed, encouraging 2 neglected apple trees, and harboring endangered creatures (Monarch butterflies, bluebirds, and a redheaded woodpecker looking for romance) in our wild meadows and oak woods. Family man who dances.