last word about 10-2 before I plan for 10-30

[handmade34]

After the Rally yesterday, I walked back to Pentagon City basking in the positive energy that had surrounded me all day. I was sunburned and tired but happy to have been there. I stepped in the door and asked my partner if he had watched on TV. Well, he explained that at first, like too many here on DU have expressed, he was disappointed. I was saddened. …and then he said as he was watching, he realized that what he was watching was an event with real people that, for the most part, real everyday people organized. There was a small futile attempt at glitz, but that wasn’t, and isn’t what ‘one nation working together’ is about. It is about, literally, one nation working together, about you and me and everyone else that cares, doing what we can to make it better.
Yesterday was a huge success in my book. Maybe it didn’t make for good television, but we all know that it is long past time for us to be told how to feel and what to think and how to act by the media. Maybe there weren’t the 300,000+ people that many of us hoped for but the people who could come, did and we all know people that wanted to but couldn’t. …and we need to stop comparisons to other unnamed events that have happened of late… We work for the positive and the good because it is the correct thing to do, to save the earth and to protect lives. The energy yesterday will help many of us to sustain that work. We should be proud that the people yesterday were a microcosm of what the United States really looks like.
I woke up this morning sore and moving a little slow and went to my computer to start on my new job here in Arlington, when my daughter called. I was telling her about the Rally and may have mentioned that some didn’t think it was organized well… she called me on that very quickly. She asked, “…does it really have to be organized? I thought rallies were about people just getting together…” Well we know the realities of the world today and the need for ‘organizing’, but it occurred to me at that moment that she was right… it is all about you and me just becoming active… we must acknowledge the power we have when we work together to get something done. People can complain that the event yesterday was lame or a fail but complaining ain’t gonna get us anywhere. The people that I talked with and laughed with and shared the beautiful day with are going to vote, they are going to go home and talk to their neighbors; the people I met yesterday want us all to succeed.
I am going to start planning on how to get to the Rally to Restore Sanity on the 30th because I believe we need to continue the momentum that has begun. Hope to see many of you there.

[DevonRex]

1. Your daughter made a good point. We've seen spontaneous protests

in the US and around the world. The people didn't care about bathrooms or routes or speakers or anything else. They just got out there and protested because it was the right thing to do.

[pscot]

2. k&r

[HipChick]

3. handmade34 - thanks for helping out..

For me it wasn't about the glitz, it was people coming together..I didn't have to help out, but it was good just seeing people making an effort to get together..I rarely get out of bed before 7am on a sat, but yesterday was worth it..I'll be there again on 10/30