Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Today I return, for a couple of hours, to the world of politics and organizing. America Votes is a national coalition aimed at electing a progressive majority throughout the country. This is the Minnesota table, as they call these meetings, and I attend on behalf of the Sierra Club.
[George Caleb Bingham’s The County Election (1852)]
Though the specific nature of the meetings are confidential, they involve the usual material for these sort of groups: polling data, shared strategy, updated relevant news. This once a month meeting is a vestigial connection with my past, a chance to stay in the fray, at least nominally.
When I retreat, I advance was something I learned at the Intensive Journal Workshop and its corollary, of course, is when I advance, I retreat. There is that danger here, I know. The chum in the water draws old sharks just like it does young ones. Self-awareness and the growing season should moderate the risk.