Day 1805: CC WAG

Chautauqua County Women's Action Group:  Awesome!  We spent most of the time preparing for our participation in the National Women's March on Jan. 21.  I knew everyone present except for one young woman.  We spoke of logistics and protocols, our personal priorities, safety measures and practical matters.  We discussed long term strategic goals and how to get off the couch and do more than email or write checks.   Very satisfying.

And I got to have lunch with my lifelong friends, Judy and Claude.  For the first time in all the years I have known him, Claude shared the story of his grandparents who lived in Paris during the early years of World War II.  Both sets were rounded up by the Nazis and transported to Auschwitz.  They never saw them again.  His parents survived and ultimately fled to Venezuela.  They were fortunate they were accepted as refugees, unlike so many Syrians who are trapped and dying in Aleppo.