Contacting My Senator

I got in contact with Dianne Feinstein, California senator and I sent her an email voicing my concern with the loss of women's rights regarding choice and abortion. But I didn't feel satisfied. There is something about emails which I find to be so disregarded, particularly to a person in power as it is likely that they themselves would not read the emails.

I was walking through Abbott Kinney this weekend trying to clear my head. Every day in Trumpland feels like a disaster, but particularly this week with the selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. Getting through to the end of each week without completely falling apart feels like a triumph to me. I came across a table of people doing crafts on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. A woman working the stand told me that they were writing Valentines Day cards to US Representatives and creating a forum in which people could write out and fully express their concerns and needs. Something about this struck a chord within me as actually writing a letter, a card and sending it by mail felt more tactful than emailing or posting on Facebook my concerns.

So, as a newly official resident of California I wrote a letter to Dianne Feinstein. i wrote that as a woman and as an artist I am concerned. I love my country and am devastated to see where it is going.

i love to write and draw, I carry a notebook with me everywhere. When everything feels overwhelming I write my thoughts to get them out of my head. It felt to nice to do so today, to write out what I am feeling, put it in an envelop and send it away to the people in power.  

Check out the organization #SendLoveToWashington on social media.