Over the next 6 weeks, I expect to be sending and posting letters to my supporters, my sister members, my friends. I have not had a looming deadline in such a long time and there is an escalating sense of urgency, emergency, finality. Feb 20 will be a new day. filled with new tasks and, yet, I am reminded of my speech from running for office last April, which said,
For me, tomorrow, nothing is going to change.
Tomorrow I will do what I do everyday.
I wake up, I get out of bed and work to advance women.
I do it with my blog.
I do it with demonstrations.
I do it hosting Feminist Cafes.
I do it promoting the ERA.
I do it protesting oppression.
Tomorrow I will do what I do everyday.
A year ago I was invited to a summit, to support and guide a group of servant leaders in designing their intentions; not mine – but theirs. Out of that meeting the current leadership of CA NOW was called to service. We shared a vision that we would be of service to the members with our the feet in the field, in service to the activists who work to advance the women and girls of California. Collectively we support activism, the verb - motion, change, growth. We have not supported a ladder of authority pointing higher and higher, awarding more and more power with each ascending rung.
The losing slate has not accepted the outcome. They are appealing up the pyramid, bypassing the local remedies and appealing to higher office holders to come and declare the elections illegal removing and replacing the state officers. And there are things afoot. As there should be. A familiar story of two forms of organizing in a struggle. The outcome will show itself and there will be fallout as demonstrated by the garden’s seasons.
What is my role? What is the right thing to do which is in keeping with my conscience? Frankly, I don’t lose sleep over such a question, as I might have 30 years ago. I know the answer - I ask. I ask the membership. I am in their service. The consistency of conscience is a hard won battle, which slips and slides from time to time, but this is rudimentary for me.
What do you want? I will be in service to that answer. If you want to fight, to go to the mat, to step away, to let it go. What do you want? This is in keeping with my form of leadership and this is just another opportunity for me to practice it. Please, give it some thought and say what you want.
Your answer will be my sextant.
Tomorrow I will do what I do everyday.
I will buy and read every book I can afford on feminism.
I will crawl the web for every item that is by ~ for or about women.
I will encourage every female to be all she can be and to exceed even her own expectation.
Tomorrow you may decide to get back to the issues of our evolving feminist lives.
But fundamentally, for me, tomorrow nothing is going to change.
Tomorrow I will do what I do everyday.









