SUNDAY Review - Week #8

Curated bits from our fight for democracy ... March 9 - 15, 2025

Democracy Heroes

What a breathless and senseless time this is. And, we’re only in week eight of this new administration. I was frozen in place for the first six weeks and then decided I had to do something. I hope we wind up at the end of this journey knowing we met a severe challenge and not only survived but built an even better country for ourselves and the children of our future. Searching for what I could do, I’ve committed to capturing some of the moments and feelings of this time, including some of what we do to save and actually strengthen our democracy.

Which way will we go?

I am not a historian although I’ve read enough to know that we are in one of those historic moments where possibilities shimmer just out of sight. Nothing is certain or guaranteed. Our experiment in democracy might shatter … or we might come out of this stronger and more dedicated to our principles of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

While part of me would like to go to sleep and wake up when all the greedy oligarchs have fled and things are back to “normal,” I’m not sure that what we called normal will ever return. All of us are being called to fight for the country we want for tomorrow.

I was reading a book about ancient Alexandria and found this paragraph which feels like a description of where we are and a bit of how we got here. It’s humbling and horrifying to think that we could lose our democracy and our country as we know it like so many civilizations before us.

“These changes induced anxiety. Many Greeks, who for centuries had lived in small cities run by their own citizens, saw themselves suddenly incorporated into large kingdoms. A sense of uprootedness began to spread, a feeling of displacement, of being lost in a universe that was too large, governed by distant, inaccessible powers. Individualism developed; loneliness became more acute.” — Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo

My intention for every Sunday is to give you a review of the week … bits and pieces that capture what happened to us during the week as well as what we did to stand up for the world we want. Below are a few pages from this past week:

Times like this spark creativity as each of us tries to find our own way to stand up and speak out. It could be as simple as chalk on a sidewalk, or as big as billboard or the merging of great symbols.

There are a thousand and one ways to be part of this fight.

I love #20: “Find joy wherever you can and make joy whenevr you can’t find it. They want us to be scared and miserable, so any chance or choice to be otherwise is truly a radical act.”

Here is the entire review in the form of a small, digital magazine (flipbook) just click on the image to open:

I am always looking for inspiration so if you see a meme, cartoon, article or anything that perfectly describes something or brings us hope, please send it to me in an email or in the comments.

And, here’s the Week #7 review in case you missed it.

And if you need a Resistance Poster, you can find printable pdfs here.