Hey strangers - just wanted to say "Go Hillary!" - and hello!
All is good on my end here.... the primaries were admittedly just too bruising for me, and things just got too mean - so I essentially left political websites behind and focused on my family, my writing, busy year garden speaking.
I don't expect to ever really get back to actively participating here or elsewhere re politics - it isn't something I am cut out to do (I take things too personally, gets me too riled up) - so I will make a difference the way I can - reaching groups, inspiring them to find common ground by sharing excitement in my gardening passion - sharing with them, teaching, and learning, inspiring young people to plant gardens. Got more books to write, tomatoes to grow - and will be all over the place next year...maybe some more of us will finally get to meet! Isn't that what all of us here are really trying to do - set an example, help be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem...there is certainly enough of that going on, isn't there?
But - it is election eve. I've been a wreck about it, but am feeling really confident that we will get to celebrate history tomorrow. It just felt like a good time to say hi, once more, again...at last
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Sid
thanks, friend
We only made it a few times this summer - rough one for the garden (that climate that isn't changing is really biting us here!)
Miss your posts, but I understand.
a very crazy year in so many respects - a tad burned out!
very kind of you to say that - right back at you!
Like you, I back off politics for a while, too. But this race was so nasty, it drew me in. Being a basically pugnacious asshole, I kind of wallowed in it!
I suspect I'll be a little less "here" after the election is over.
so my wife and I went out and worked our flower beds for a few hours - about to cook a roasted tomato crostata for a little election night party at a friend's house.
So, so ready to flush the Trumpturd down the toilet of history!
We need you to raise the tone around here.
