Amanda

So he said that at one point Gandhi planned this huge march and all the people like left their jobs and came to this one place for this march and they all went through a lot of hardship to get there.

And then that morning some things happened and he was like,

This isn't supposed to be happening today.

We have to cancel it.

And his people around him kept saying, we can't.

This is the plan.

This is the plan.

And he said something like, all I know to do is wake up and feel the truth of things.

And so in order to be truthful, I cannot be consistent.

Well, because Abby's always like, but we were supposed to do this other thing.

Yeah.

And I stand in the kitchen and say, in order to be truthful, I cannot be consistent.

So I think there's something real there though, right?

If you're staying embodied and fluid, it's often a changing of everything and a landing in this moment today.

I think like we should stay there for a minute about the organizing locally.

I know we've been talking about this a lot lately, but I think we really need to talk about this deliberately right now because I think it's finally permeating like at least like white lady culture.

I think that one of the beautiful things that has happened lately, maybe over the last five to 10 years, is that a lot of people who have never done it are showing up for protests.

That is incredible and great.

But what I think now people are starting to understand is the protest is not the everyday work.

Think of the protest as like the concert.