this morning #1889.

this morning, in total, two dozen of us showed up. not as large of a crowd as i’d been hoping for but it was enough for now. a start. ultimately, if we want to make any sort of impact, we’ll need to grow this group to at least a hundred people. twice that number would be nice. i definitely need to print up a lot more flyers. once everyone settled in, i started the meeting with an anecdote. a story about my dad. how he’d been an alderman in my hometown for two decades. he often ended up on the losing side of votes. often felt defeated but never stopped fighting for what he believed in. if we have that same level of belief, there’s nothing we can’t achieve. i paused for applause. one guy in the back clapped. another yawned.