2025 Life Logs, Day 166: One Million Rising
Date: Monday, June 16, 2025
Weather: Mostly Sunny; High Temp 66, Low 59 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
As I said in yesterday’s log, today was going to begin and end with a Zoom meeting, but in between I said I was going to get outside and do some gardening. That didn’t happen, but I did get a lot done today. This morning’s meeting was the Falmouth Immigration Coalition. Shh. Don’t tell anyone that I volunteered to work on another project. Then, instead of heading outside, I worked on trying to get my act together as the Board of Library Trustee treasurer position I somehow managed to elected to. I had nightmares about that last night, so for my sanity I needed to work on that. Then, I did take a break to go over and check in on Ollie and Jonah. They are still in school, but due to finals, neither had school this afternoon. Ollie wanted to go to Smitty’s. so I made my first Smitty’s ice cream run of the summer.
But there was a bribe involved. I told him I would take him to get ice cream if he would contact his friend Simon and arrange to biking when we got home. I didn’t get outside this afternoon, but at least I got Ollie outside. Then it was back home to finish getting the library board books completed that I had started earlier.
Tonight, I attended a Zoom meeting sponsored by Indivisible. It was advertised as No Kings – What’s Next? – a follow up to the very successful “No Kings” mass mobilization. On Saturday, there were over 5 million people participating in 2,169 events worldwide. A lot of time was spent showing how very successful the day was. To be a successful movement, we need 3.5% of the US population. That would be 11.89 million people. We are almost half-way there! But what comes next to grow the movement? There were many ideas presented, but the bottom line is that you and I and what we choose to do to be involved is what’s next. What action, no matter how small, are you going to take today? Tomorrow?
If you are interested in ideas, go to https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953
This will take you to a site where you can sign up for 3 training sessions this summer offered on Zoom called “one Million Rising.”. There were thousands of people on tonight’s call and there will be thousands taking the Zoom training on leadership. I signed up and hope you will consider doing the same. We have to build power for the long haul and that is going to take leadership. The first class is July 16. Hope to see you there.
