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There was a full house at the Friends Church to celebrate the life of Christopher Maxwell.
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From Cable Access shows, to VCU Recycling, to helping design the local Hostel, to creating, WRIR, to saving one of the few bonafide rooming houses in Richmond, to creating WRWK in Midlothian, so he could help put Abigail Spanberger into the US House and she could eventually become Virginia’s governor he was on mission after mission.
.And Virginia’s first female governor. That means she had to do all the same legislative work “backwards and in high heels.”
She also birthed and raised successful children: Thank you for your service, Governor!
Now she can help raise Virginia from it’s “Business Friendly”(labor last) orientation so it can serve all Virginia’s Citizens.
That’s the only legitimate purpose of government. Not that leaders couldn’t do both, it’s not really a win-lose world. Good Leadership is about making the Pie Bigger, not their friends richer
And that was one of the things Max was most proud of. Helping Abigail win in the very district WRWK is in. Of course the Liberal Women of Chesterfield County (LWCC) did the leg work but WRWK was on the air to help.
Abigail’s interview is still pinned to the top of the WRWK YouTube page. In that interview, Host Stephanie brought out the possibilities of having thoughtful emphatic, but tough leadership on our side of the aisle in the US House.
Empowering women and giving them voice was a constant theme with Max. As a guy he had a healthy and loving regard for Women and recognized that a lot of men didn’t understand them, and that was one more issue to take on.
Hundreds of people came or zoomed in to his memorial to thank Max for sharing his life’s adventures with them. There were also some misadventures but all his energy and passion were in service of that greater thing, Our collective success as a species. And it was not dry and abstract. He had to make it fun to get help and he got very good at that.
He was not a saint but he was fun and for the most part effective and if people felt used they didn’t mention it or perhaps didn’t mind because they were a part of a greater thing.
I think people who came to celebrate Max’s life were really celebrating that one of us can live in the same place we do but insist and work to make better things possible. Who doesn’t want to be a part of Life’s Moon-Shots?
Maybe, if we work at it we might catch up to the possibilities Max saw.
I plan to live my life to the Max, pun intended.
Also, it was great to be in a space where so many souls recognized we can do good things and have and Will. but, We may have to leave our comfort zone.
Thanks Max. Game On!
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legislative work “backwards and in high heels.”
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