On a recent episode of the Z107.7 Up Close Show, Gary Daigneaul spoke about Mil-Tree, a veterans-focused community organization, with their Executive Director Cheryl Montelle and President Patrick Wallis.
They discussed at length about a free retreat for Veterans, titled “Weaving our Stories: The Path Home”, set for January 12th – January 14th in Joshua Tree.
Here is snippet of their conversation:
“Weaving Our Path Home Is part of a larger program grant that we were awarded from the California Arts Council Creative Corps. In this particular part it’s happening January 12th through 14th and the idea is to connect veterans with community members and our creative team in order to tell their personal stories.
How did they get to be where they are? (What is) their military experience… your experience in the community? The creative team kind of bears witness to all that, of course guided the whole time by Community Elders or Culture Bearers as their known in the nonprofit world. The idea is to surface shared values, a shared vision for the future between our vets, between our community reintegration to be able to cut through this isolation that veterans are experiencing in the community, in the world and the general isolation and loneliness that we’re experiencing as Americans…”
The “Weaving Our Stories” event begins on January 12. For more information, visit mil-tree.org
You can listen to their entire conversation by downloading the Z1077 Up Close Show as a podcast.
