To D.C. And Back Without Leaving My Office

Bernie Sanders speaking behind a podium at a rally

I have spent not a small amount of time these past weeks festering and debating whether to go to D.C. to visit my senators and representative and attend a rally there. It’s the least I can do, isn’t it? Simple. Drive to Providence. Take a train to D.C. and bada-bing, I’d be at the protest and home again the next day.

Carl awaited my decision, ready to chauffeur and protect me. I ruminated. While driving Snowball back and forth to the vet, then medicating her. While staring down at my desk, where Triage lay unfathomed due to our being away, coming back, house guests, and chicken dramas, I debated. Was I destined to protest, be beaten and arrested, never to be home again? Was I not a patriot? A born and bred American!? Should I not get myself off my lily white ass and join those doing the heavy lifting?

As a Libra, I experience decisions as a challenge. I see the pros and cons, and then the pros and cons of the pros and cons, and after a while it’s just too much. I burst into tears. What good am I? Who am I? What is the right thing for me to do? What is life’s meaning? Is there no meaning?

And then I returned the call of a dear friend who waited until my tongue had finished tumbling and tripping over my Libran scale, and then she said, “Oh, Tory. No. No.”

She has the kindest, gentlest of voices. She said that I didn’t have to go to D.C., pointing out to me that, me being me, it would be most ill-advised.

Even as she said it, I knew she was right. But how weak of me! How pathetic! Was their nothing I could do from the aerie heights of my Ivory Tower? I called one of my cousins. She pointed out that there are people who want to go, but can’t afford it. Give money. While we talked, I donated the equivalent amount of money to FreeDC as I have spent on our sweet and now platinum gold hen, Snowball. No small amount. And rather like draft eligible males paid for and hired “substitutes” during the Civil War.

And then I called my senators to give them a (relatively) controlled expression of my outrage of the day. And debated what to put on my sign for the weekly vigil we’ve been attending since March.

There are many paths to save our democracy and Earth.

There is a nationwide protest being organized for October 18, 2025:

https://nokingsmovement.com/pages/no-kings-day-protest

You can go to this link to find your senators and reps:

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Or go here to find out who represents you both nationally and in your state:

https://www.270towin.com/elected-officials/

Here are three organizations who are organizing protests and calls:

https://indivisible.org/

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

https://5calls.org/

There are a lot of organizations organizing different actions. Go to googleland and google the topic you want to defend.