“Dear PoPville,
Just wanted to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to the choir singing and the people who gathered with words of support outside of EPA (more…)
good people
photo by Diane Krauthamer
“Dear PoPville,
Trying to find the guy who helped me out BIG time this morning by saving my dog:
I was awoken to my surprise this morning around 8am by my dog and you (guy in backwards St. Louis Cardinals hat, out of breathe from running after dog) at my front stoop. (more…)
Martha and fellow Druids
The following was written by Martha M. Ertman:
“DC is a company town. If you don’t like the company of the Mump Administration, you can still do micro, focused good to keep the embers of democracy or basic respect for the environment alive until the political and cultural winds enable macro changes. A small group of NW women who call ourselves Druids have done just that to fend off the sense that we’re hopeless or helpless to combat climate change.
Being at or near retirement, with kids largely out of the house, we have bandwidth to meet monthly to do what we can. The spark was a 2022 New York Times article on Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a real Druid and genius octogenarian botanist and medical biochemist who for decades has climate-change adapted native trees on her 160 acres in Ontario, Canada. I read a couple of her nine books, and embraced her “bioplan” that every person on earth should plant 6 trees to buy us time to solve the climate crisis.
Neighbors joined: a journalist, educators, a few attorneys, and most importantly, a landscaper. We watched Dr. Diana’s documentary Call of the Forest – made by the people who brought us March of the Penguins — and discovered that Casey Trees was already harnessing volunteer labor and enthusiasm to planting native trees – 6000+ a year – in Washington DC.
We still meet monthly to do be a bit of the change we want to see in the world. Arbor Day dinner complete with gorgeous tree-stump shaped chocolate cake, touring the Arboretum at American University, or donning elbow-length suede gloves to remove invasive weeds from Rock Creek Park. (more…)
photo by Victoria Pickering
“Dear PoPville,
Can you give a shout-out to the three young women thanking public servants at the Fed Center metro stop this morning a bit after 8am. (more…)
photo by DCbmyers
“Dear PoPville,
I loved your post “Small gestures”. I experienced something similar myself.
After a rough day navigating executives orders, I met a friend at Boqueria to unwind. As we talked about the dark cloud looming over our agencies- (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
On Sunday around noon at Duke’s Counter in Woodley Park, I benefited from a random act of kindness and need to thank the two very generous people responsible. I was telling my bartender buddy about my early forced retirement coming Monday and the impossible situation of trying to work through a funding freeze. (more…)
photo by angela n.
“Dear PoPville,
Trying to find a Good Samaritan. My friend got run over by a car last night at 14th and P st about 5:45. She is ok. I’m reaching out because a bystander held her hand while the we waited for the ambulance to show up and she wants to find her and thank her. She thinks her name was Jess.”
If this was you, please email me at [email protected] and I’ll put you in touch with OP. Thanks!
“Dear PoPville,
I’m a subscriber with a meal delivery service. I live in Columbia Heights. Monday is the day I get my meal box for the week, and this past week the box did not arrive. The service sent me a notification saying the box had been delivered, along with GPS coordinates. Turns out the box was delivered miles away from where I live. Now, (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I was scootering to work Wednesday morning on 19th St and collided with a trash truck that was coming out of an alley. The truck was flying down the alley way too quickly onto the sidewalk and would have fully hit me if I hadn’t slammed on my brakes. (more…)
photo by Mr.TinMD
“Dear PoPville,
Does anyone know of any programs that connect local families with people who might not have somewhere to go for Thanksgiving, like foreign college students? We had been planning to host family members but they are unable to make it, so find ourselves with empty seats at our table for Thanksgiving!”