Save Democracy, Teach Mah Jongg, Not at The Same Time

Save Democracy, Teach Mah Jongg, Not at The Same Time

My day was a tale of two stories.  It started with a meeting at my Friend Jan’s neighborhood clubhouse.  You know Jan, the one who had cancer last year.  Now she is having a knee replaced in two weeks.  Between beating cancer and getting a new knee she is most concerned with saving democracy.  

Thankfully Jan is good at gathering troops and setting them on a mission.  So I joined her neighborhood friends and we discussed what we were most worried about and how we want to move forward to fight against the things we are worried about.  The list of what we are collectively worried about totaled about 999 things so there is little time to waste to speak up.  It is time for us to overwhelm those who should be leading that we don’t go along with the way they are not leading or destroying our country.  It felt good to talk about these things with like minded women and to actually do something.  

The second half of my day was a mini mah Jongg beginner boot camp for a realtor having a  customer appreciation event.  I started the class with the caveat that they can’t learn to play mah Jongg in three hours, but they did a pretty good job at it.

The thing that is good about teaching mah Jongg is I am so fully in it when I am doing it I can’t think about democracy being ripped out from underneath us.  So I am glad to know that Jan is working on that.  

I would love to hear from anyone who has good ideas of actions we can take to make our views known.  I joined indivisible today and plan on going to a rally and have joined economic blackouts, but I like big impact ideas.  Please share ideas you have that are non-violent.  

Then when I’m not teaching mah Jongg I can Work on them.