Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.

These were the people across the street from where I stood during Monday’s protest. We had more people on our side of the street and a lot more around the corners on both sides — about 500 total in a St. Louis suburb. No Kings on President’s Day.

How’s the weather?

We got a fluffy snow on Monday and Tuesday, and it’s stayed cold since then. It will start to melt over the weekend with highs in the 40s and 50s. The current forecast is for 62 degrees on Monday. That’s hard to believe looking out my window, right now, on Friday.

What are you reading?

I finished all three of the books that I mentioned last week.

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros and Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb both provided the kind of distraction that I’m looking for in novels, right now. I’m doing well with stories that take me to a different world and provide a lot of excitement while I’m there.

Our book group had a terrific discussion of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo last night. This is the other thing that I’m looking for in books, right now — inspiration provided by people who do amazing things to liberate themselves and others in the face of government and other systemic opposition.

Today, I’m looking for distraction in this book: Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O’Hea.

Today, I’m looking for inspiration in this book: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown.

What are you watching?

Speaking of inspiring real-life stories, I reviewed The Six Triple Eight for British Isles Friday this week. It’s an American story but a lot of the action happened in England, so I thought it worked. These black women used creativity, perseverance, and determination to complete an impossible job in World War II.

What are you doing?

Meetings. They are how I get to be “the room where it happens.”

On Saturday afternoon, I’ll meet with people who spoke to their school board candidates about equity in the schools. Most of those meetings happened before the ridiculous Dear Colleague letter from the Department of Education was sent. I’ll bring that to our meeting to see what we want to do about it. If I have time, I’ll compile some resources and commentary about that letter and post it on my blog as well as sharing it with my group.

Edited to add: Here are the resources I found in response to the Dear Colleague Letter.

On Monday morning, I’m meeting with a new group, a committee formed from my local Democrat club that is also about equity but applied more broadly than schools.

I expressed interest in an education committee from the same local Democrat club, but it has yet to pull itself together, so I may plunge in to get that going. One of my superpowers is jumping into vacuums. Pretty much every time that I end up in a leadership role it’s because no one else did the next thing that needed to be done, so I did. The stakes feel low. I can’t do it worse than it not being done at all.

How are you this fine Sunday?