We’ve been living on the edge of civilization for a couple weeks now. The public dock, Knightville Landing, provided us with free water and dinghy landing. It is also the center of pubescent life for South Portland. Check out how they’re all waiting their turn in a neat, tidy line. These are good boys. The large ships coming through the bridge and up the river gave us good doses of adrenaline periodically. Here’s the same ship, passing us alongside. And here’s a closeup. A crop of the bow so you can get the scale of this vessel. The red spot in the hole at the front of the boat? That’s a person. For real. Meanwhile, the boat sat at anchor. Well, at anchors. We settled in and realized that wind and tide were pulling us out into the channel and in where the bottom shallows quickly. We got ourselves solidly hooked on the bow and then put a smaller anchor into the dinghy and rowed it out behind. With one anchor off each end of the boat, we swung gently like a hammock without getting in the way of anything like TransFighter. I (Dena) started work at EqualityMaine or Mainers for Marriage Equality, depending on whether we’re working with donations or campaign funds. It’s a good organization as far as I can tell, though phone canvassing is as hard as any other out-bound call center work for the most part. I’ve got the script down pretty well, and the rest is a lot like counseling with an agenda. I’m supposed to draw people out on their concerns about same-sex marriage so that I can assuage those fears and counter the arguments. It works sometimes. At least a couple times a night, I get someone to move from somewhat opposed to[…]
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