hee. Yes, I actually did glimpse y'all across Green Street, just before we broke off to go back and sing & chant, but I lost you in the shuffle. I figure it'll happen eventually.
...thought it would be nice if we were some of the people who stuck around after the first wave of outrage and energy started to die down.
That's honestly one of my reasons for going again, too. Be one of the people carrying the determination onward.
My not-a-new-year's-resolution... short version is, re-engage and re-commit. So... not unlike many other people's.
The slightly longer version is, I'd been fairly isolative, for the past long while, due to job and energy and depressive tendencies. So when I unburied from the election and Tamnonlinear's suicide, I figured we were going to lose a few decades of (national-level) progress due to it all. (I didn't reckon on Jeff Sessions, so really, I underestimated the soon-to-be-damage.) And /given/ the national picture, one of the things that's going to be most effective and possible to do is to protect and defend our local turf.
So. Re-commit to community, re-engage with and in it. (I was aiming on doing clinic defense for Planned Parenthood, for possibly obvious reasons, but communication has so far been slow.)
I am, I admit, considerably heartened by the nationwide reaction, which *has* made some difference. It just won't, realistically, make enough difference in the federal long-term picture. Probably.
(It's a not-a-new-year's-resolution, obviously, because it happened in November.)
probably better that I try to get some sleep. Please let me know what it's like.
Sleep is a goodness.
Since I have a family thing, and also a cold (and I think a fever just now, which puts the family thing in a bit of doubt) I'm not going to this one. Marathon not a sprint, I tell myself.
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...thought it would be nice if we were some of the people who stuck around after the first wave of outrage and energy started to die down.
That's honestly one of my reasons for going again, too. Be one of the people carrying the determination onward.
My not-a-new-year's-resolution... short version is, re-engage and re-commit. So... not unlike many other people's.
The slightly longer version is, I'd been fairly isolative, for the past long while, due to job and energy and depressive tendencies. So when I unburied from the election and Tamnonlinear's suicide, I figured we were going to lose a few decades of (national-level) progress due to it all. (I didn't reckon on Jeff Sessions, so really, I underestimated the soon-to-be-damage.) And /given/ the national picture, one of the things that's going to be most effective and possible to do is to protect and defend our local turf.
So. Re-commit to community, re-engage with and in it. (I was aiming on doing clinic defense for Planned Parenthood, for possibly obvious reasons, but communication has so far been slow.)
I am, I admit, considerably heartened by the nationwide reaction, which *has* made some difference. It just won't, realistically, make enough difference in the federal long-term picture. Probably.
(It's a not-a-new-year's-resolution, obviously, because it happened in November.)
probably better that I try to get some sleep. Please let me know what it's like.
Sleep is a goodness.
Since I have a family thing, and also a cold (and I think a fever just now, which puts the family thing in a bit of doubt) I'm not going to this one. Marathon not a sprint, I tell myself.