Paula McElwee and Mary Jane Gilmer
Recorded
December 9, 2022
49:37 minutes
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Id:
ddv002228
Description
One Small Step partners Paula McElwee (70) and Mary Jane Gilmer (72) have a conversation about their fathers as great influences in their lives, believing in keeping people at home and out of nursing homes, and discussing how the government should give everyone basic nutrition.Subject Log / Time Code
Mary Jane (MJ) shares how being near the ocean and the redwoods had impacted her life, as well as the many places she has lived.
Paula (P) speaks to her work in disability rights and the church not doing enough. She then helps MJ understand ableism.
MJ shares about the coincidence in her life that led her to this interview.
P and MJ connect about kids being sponges, and maybe the teaching of listening being missing in parenting today.
MJ shares how working in the national guard and living in New Zealand (and seeing their healthcare system in particular) changed her political values.
MJ wonders if taking over an army base could help with housing insecurity.
P shares what it feels like to live with an invisible disability.
MJ and P share what gives them hope for the future.
Participants
- Paula McElwee
- Mary Jane Gilmer