Robyn Thirkill and Sarah Spector
Recorded
November 11, 2022
48:53 minutes
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ddv002181
Description
One Small Step conversation partners Robyn Thirkill (47) and Sarah Spector (62) discuss how their upbringings impacted them, living intentionally and peacefully, and how they support their political values and intentions in ways that feel authentic to them.Subject Log / Time Code
Robyn (R) speaks to the impact that her friend killing someone when she was young had on her identity. She then shares about being surprised living now in rural Virginia at how she faces less racial discrimination than she expected.
R describes what it is like being trusted by people as a hospice nurse and winning when she meets her patients' goals.
Sarah (S) describes her experiences in Kibbutzim and intentional communities and explains the differences between the two.
S speaks about the Holocaust's impact on her family and feeling unable to make mistakes.
R shares about her parents' history with the Civil Rights Movement and her mother as a model for becoming the change she wanted to see.
S shares how her global travels affected her political views and how they are oriented to "the personal is political."
R tells a story about a patient with a swastika tattoo and realizing she did not hate him. She shares more about the reality of living in rural Virginia, saying "the world is not the comment section on a Facebook post."
They both speak to their previous expectations of each other and what changed in the process of their conversation.
Participants
- Robyn Thirkill
- Sarah Spector