Final Debate Watch and Codepink Meeting

Today, after visiting an amazing spine healer and spending some time at the ocean, I attend the San Francisco Codepink meeting at the Global Exchange office. We all watch the last presidential debate together, heaving and ho-ing communally, sighing in rounds; the room becomes a chorus of deep breaths and the sound of arms crossing and unfolding, bodies shifting uncomfortably and with distaste in their chairs, with the sporadic interjection of a loud exclamation, such as “How many times does he have to use the word ‘freedom’?” or “Absolutely nothing about the environment! Nothing!” or “That was an answer to the question?!” After the debate we have the actual meeting, in which I get to give a lively report about our Ohio trip at just the key moment when discouragement is waning to full force. Once revived, the group discusses fundraising, the upcoming concert in Berkeley, and the Juarez women’s project. I leave SF that night feeling really solid about being a part of Codepink… well, with the exception of leaving my coffee mug behind in the office ;-)