Someday I will write a more involved book on the subject, but for present purposes let me say that in the life span of a cartoonist/activist there are many stages starting with the discovery, “Who is that artist?”, to the middle period, “There he is again. He has the greatest signs,” to the last stage when the older person shows up, and the younger people find that cute, probably just accepting that someone did not lock the door at the home, while the local newspaper reporter asks why you are at whatever the rally is, mainly because having an old guy’s opinion is ever so precious when mixed in with quotes from the twenty-somethings.

Recently, I was just supposed to be a protester, a rally-goer, a marcher, or a whatever we were that day, but, because in the article in the next day’s local newspaper covering the rally they had added the words “Seventy year old” in front of my name, just before my sloppy quote which the reporter had somewhat misheard, I had become the article’s cute old guy among the young.

I have been to all kinds of rallies and demonstrations over decades for various causes, my own rights among them, and one thing they all had in common was the moment each participant, realizing how long things were going to last, thought what a good thing it would have been had they brought a folding lawn chair.

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I am not in any way infirm. I bring the chair because I have learned to do that. People spend too much time at these things looking for something to casually lean against to get some weight off their feet, and having been at one time the firebrand who might cheer on the crowd or give a speech, these days I enjoy going to show my support by being there with a good sign, and to see the younger people organizing things, although I often bite my tongue and accept that a poorly executed action will be a learning experience for the better next one. It is good to have an activist’s biggest fear expunge seeing that there will be those ready to take the baton as it is their turn to step up.

And a lot of eye-candy drives by when you stand on a corner for hours holding a sign to do what you can to make the world a better place, while also checking out who is that in that car and wishing I could only be a few decades younger.

But now I have come to that point brought on by age, when I have to play the role of the now happy old guy made so in that moment because at her mother’s insistence, some toddler brought that sweet old man over there in that lawn chair a homemade cookie.

But another, sad reality is that as much as I might pretend it is otherwise, the reality is that I fit in the stay away from large crowds, especially those not known for wearing face masks, age group now, so, although I might go to some big gathering with the ability to socially distance, like putting my chair on the fringe and watching with my sign  when such comes up, I will listen as the daily march  goes by my apartment on those few times they have changed locations and I am on a good route, and, as the spirit moves me, whip up a large political cartoon picket sign, unfold my chair, and be in it for the long (the non-mobile parts, let’s be honest) when I can.