Checking In--Reposted from Facebook

Hello Friends,

I just moved to DC and I wanted to keep you all oriented with where I am and what I am doing. I am working at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), a peace and social justice lobbying group run by Quakers. What am I doing there? For starters, I'm making things like this Command William Riker facial hair Mr. Potato head desk ornament (see photos below; it's the best thing thing).

The setup. The text is courtesy of the results of an office "strengthfinder" team building exercise.

Angry anime eyebrow Riker.

Mama bear Riker.

But I'm also working in communications, helping FCNL "organize, interpret, and distribute FCNL’s legislative strategies to the FCNL network both on and off the hill." See the overly lit picture of me at my staff profile:

http://fcnl.org/about/who/staff/patrick_lozada/

What does this mean? I'm doing outreach, publishing FCNL mailings, and trying to get people involved in working towards a world without war where we treat the earth with loving care. It turns out that you are one of those people, and because you're my F(f)riend I have no compunction in bothering you about it.

So we come down to the meat/ soy substitute of this message. I want you to do two things:

1. Come visit me at my house (a real house!) in D.C. and let me drink you under the table.
2. Sign up to get e-mail from FCNL at http://fcnl.org/.

I have a feeling the second might take a little more persuading than the first, so let me make my case briefly. If you sign up

• You get e-mails from me (and a team of wonderful and patient editors) with the skinny on what's going on in Washington.
• You can make a real difference in shifting our strange political system towards progress by acting on our legislative action messages and contacting your congresspersons.
• If you don't want to read it some week, then you will only spend 3/100 of one second deleting it.

That's my case. I hope you take me up on both of my recommendations. Also, stay in touch! If I tagged you (and even if I didn't), I think you're pretty great and I care about you. Hope you all are well.

With loving care,

Patrick Lozada