Thank you Rebecca for sharing a portrait of your mother's infectious spirit for local activism. Three months on, with thousands more deaths in Gaza, and a million uncommitted votes, and nothing it seems will make our politicians or government budge. They take our votes for granted and threaten us and bully us with the specter of an authoritarian Trump, who will "take away our democracy," as if we still have any vestige of democracy left. I wonder if, and hope, your mother has words of encouragement for these dreary times. How can we keep ourselves motivated when our activism isn't producing results?