Life of Wry

Bade farewell to Sally and Ron….

.. and headed back down the hill. During my two hour commute, I caught up on the firehose of news — every day is a shock to the system — then tuned into the weekly online Indivisible gathering for the latest on the resistance movement. Listened to Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin — the founders of Indivisible — who are the respected epicenter of the movement, smartly summarizing the state of play and throwing out toolkits and plans of attack (peaceful tactics, always) each week to not only keep people engaged and informed, but armed with actions aimed at reminding our members of Congress who they work on behalf of (hint: not the deranged president). This has become one of my favorite things to do each week. It’s a great and inspiring, productive hour.

Got home, took care of some home stuff, then headed out to an in-person town hall with Congressman Mike Thompson, and our State Assembly and State Senate reps, Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and Christopher Cabaldon. I don’t know how many folks fit into that massive room at the Woodland Senior and Community Center, but it was at least a couple-three hundred. Packed with overflow standers and lots of anger-fear-anxiety.

It lasted 90 minutes and gave me a huge headache (literally). I will say Thompson was a different guy tonight from the Congressman who spouted pablum a week ago in the online Zoom town hall. I have maybe a shred of hope that maybe our reps are getting the message that their CONSTITUENTS are not happy and their jobs (as our representatives!) are on the line if they don’t stop this madman and his freight train of presidential overreach.