2025 Life Logs, Day 309: Nonviolence in Action Film Series
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, Windy; High Temp 60, Low 45 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I spent my day getting ready for meetings. Late this afternoon was the third film screening in the Nonviolence in Action series. The films was about Denmark when Nazi’s occupied the country during World War II and Poland when Lech Walesa led the Solidarity movement that transitioned the country from communism to democracy in the 1980’s. The films in the series have been very well received, and most people have been very engaged in the post- film discussions. We have one more film next week. It has been quite a learning experience for me as I knew nothing about organizing a film series and very little about nonviolent movements in the 20th century. I have really enjoyed organizing and roiling out the film series, but it has taken an enormous amount of time. After the screening next week, I should have a little more time in my life!
About 25 minutes before the start time for this afternoon’s film, a doctor from the hospital called to talk with me about my sister. He was very thorough and had question after question. I had to take the call as I had waited all day to talk to someone at the hospital, but I was off with just one minute to spare before introducing the film. Whew! The good news from the doctor is that he hopes he can release Patsy to go home by Friday afternoon.
I drove home to feed Shadow after the film screening and then drove right back to the library, this time wearing my library trustee ‘hat’, for a meeting about the plans for building a new library in East Falmouth.
