So Now How To Further the Cause? in Everyday Ramblings

This is one of my favorite gardens in the neighborhood. Those are tulip leaves there in the pot. Battered and full of glare the daffodils are finally beginning to bloom and although the crocuses are closed, the colors are still brilliant in the wet gloom. If I were a bee I’d be seriously thinking about expanding my territory south right now.

I took this shot as I went for a morning walk here on my own personal International Women’s Day strike.

Because of the flu my back still fatigues easily and last night I was only able to get in 10,000 steps for the day before it cinched up enough to be too uncomfortable to carry on. Walking as early as I can and in smaller chunks seems to be the ticket right now.

I may be delusional but I think that it is adjusting to the changes I have made and in time (not so long now) I will be stronger and better aligned and able to get through my days without discomfort. I am not having spasms at all anymore and am able to teach without any distress.

A couple of times working on the self-mobilizations the PT gave me I felt my whole back “adjust” as I have heard happens when one goes to a chiropractor. That is why I am pretty sure that I am better aligned and this next part is about adjusting to that.

Still, it is a slog, the watching out for and adapting to the weakness.

I was able to finish one of my continuing ed courses this morning. That felt so good. And I made some of those personal business phone calls we all have on our to do lists. Everything takes longer than one thinks it will but oh well. Some progress is better than none.

In reflection, it is true that because of my privileged position as a white woman in a affluent democracy the taking today off is “just a particularly righteous personal day” but I am also thinking deeply and committing myself to the cause of doing what needs to be done to bettering the lives of women around the world. My focus is on stopping violence against women in all it forms and equal pay for equal work.

With a categorically misogynist sexist man as the leader of my country that dismisses violence against women as locker room talk I feel now more than ever that we must stand strong and make our voices heard.

In any way that works for us, everything counts; intention makes a difference.

And I am teaching later so I am not totally taking the day off. :)

In the meantime though I am incredibly grateful to all the women who persisted and won us the right to earn and keep our own money (unequal as it may be) and the right to vote and make medical decisions for ourselves.

May, I in some small way, do something in this lifetime to further the cause… even if it is just serving as an example of a happy and rich independent life.

Last updated March 08, 2017