Previous posts this week February 3, 4 and 6.  Access at archive at right.  If you access Facebook, Molly offers a treat from Bob Dylan at Newport Folk Festival 1964.

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As I write these words on Friday, the prediction is for possibly 5-10 inches of snow overnight and Saturday morning.  So we might be temporarily snowbound – you don’t know when it happens.

Tuesday, while looking for a photo of Ken Martin (Feb. 4 post), I found the above photo which I took at a small news moment at Minnesota State Capitol in the summer of 2011.  I took the photo.  Ken Martin is in the light suit at left in the picture.

I remember the demo.  I think it was organized by the DFL Senior Caucus and the DFL – I was in the founding group of DFLSC in 2006, and active for ten years.  The news event was an effort to publicize the needs of the marginalized in our society.  Martin was early in his term with DFL.

Note especially the lady at center front.  She’s hard to see.  I don’t know her disability but she’s confined to one of those motorized chairs, and I know she was active advocate at the time.

I’m intrigued by this photo because it exemplifies where the action always needs to be to make change: small groups, committed, working together for a better life, a better world.  They are, in a very real sense, all of us.  Specifically, they’re the 75,000,000 who voted for an alternative vision on Nov. 5, and are now facing an unprecedented crisis on the very future of the United States of America.  I am one of the 75,000,000, very concerned about the future of this county.

If you’re among the paralyzed in the 75,000,000 who says “I can’t do anything….”, rest assured you – and the rest of us – are the only solution.  Period.  Start with yourself.  Pick a single issue that energizes you, take a stand, aspire to make contact with at least one leader you perceive to be the next rung above you in the power pyramid (somebody like you pastor, a city councilman, a state legislator….)  Deal with your contacts as you’d want to be dealt with.  We live together, after all.

Escalate your activity.  Maybe one thing one time this week; maybe twice next week – etc.  But make it proactive.  We need to do more than learn more.  We need to share our concern in the many ways available to us.

This is not a rocket science business.  If you care, you’re going to have to be ‘on the court’