2025 Life Logs, Day 98: How to Eat an Elephant
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Weather: Cloudy with Rain, Windy, Freezing Tonight; High Temp 44, Low 30 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
“The World Played Chess” is a book by Robert Dugoni, also author of “The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell” which I read a few years ago and loved. “The World Played Chess” is a coming of age story that revolves around the Vietnam War. But that description in no way expresses the depth of this historical fiction novel. For me, this book helped me to finally understand what “woke” really means. The book awakened me to devastation of the war in Vietnam like nothing else I have ever seen, read, or heard. I highly recommend this book.
Now to the question of the day, “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer, of course, is one bite at a time. But here is why that is important. Tonight, I attended the weekly meeting of Indivisible Upper Cape where a woman elegantly spoke about recently being fired from her job with NOAA after 19 years of service. I don’t think I need to repeat her story. It is the same story we are hearing of so many federal workers. It was the way she ended her story that impressed me so much. She listed more than 20 things that each of us could be doing daily to push back and end by asking the question about how you eat an elephant. It is a great analogy for how we need to proceed each day in pushing back against what is happening in Washington to destroy our democracy. It is overwhelming, but one ‘bite’ at a time we can eat this elephant.
