A Different Approach

I know I've made the right decision when Sister goes out of her way to agree with me.  These occasions are few and far between.  I treasure them.  This time, it helps that we are on the same side in America's ongoing battle to regain its democratic footing.  

I'm still coming to terms with my decision to pull back from attending marches and rallies and demonstrations.  A private company will be running an ICE detention center not too many miles from my house.  I stopped following the plans to present a peaceful presence outside..  I had to. Thinking about it made my heart race.  

I'm working on an op-ed for the local paper, and that helps.  But the need to actually do something in the world is part and parcel of who I am.  Being thwarted, even if I'm doing it to myself, does not sit well with me.  

Then, Penzeys came to the rescue.  With every purchase of the eponymous spice came a sheet of these stickers.

Ten little stickers to subtly announce my presence.  I leave them everywhere.  On grocery carts, on No Parking signs, on the edges of trash cans and recycling stations.  Each sticker feels like an adventure.  Subtlety is the key.  I'm sure that some are removed by the close of business, but I like to believe that my little reminder to the rest of the world is making a difference.

It's reminding me of the red raised fists that showed up on random storefronts and stop signs in the late '60's and early '70's.

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We wanted to end the draft and end the war and we were, as Taos Bubbe always reminds me, loud and colorful. We forced a sitting President not to run for reelection, we tormented another, and I do believe that the unhappiness and the unrest and the persistence of it all had a lot to do with ending the war.

My little stickers aren't loud, but they are flashy.  I love the verbiage in the middle - typewritten, just as it would have been in the '60's.  It's a throwback to Gilroy was Here ... we are everywhere... or so the polls are beginning to show.

Will the voters turn out in November?  Will the Cabinet step up and invoke the 25th Amendment?  Will Congress impeach him?  Will there be just one too many stops at Mickey D's?  I'm done putting my hope in others.  I'm done putting my body at risk .

I'm stickering and that feels fine.