The day President Obama's man called

How exciting, when the phone rings - and it is one of the President's men!
Asking for follow-up information about an eco-friendly social initiative you spoke about at a morning conference of activists a few days earlier !!
My beautiful friend works with line drawings and words, an artist who is coming into her identity as an activist.
Sounds like the country's leadership does want to find ways to hear ideas percolating at the grassroots level. How looooonnnnngggg since anything like that was done, if ever.
A historic moment.
Which makes me a journalist-photographer.
It's been a while.
Nice to be dipping my toe in that river again - in these particular layers of reality.