Dear Mom - Escape from Reality

Dear Mom,

Sorry I didn't get back to you right after the election, as promised, but I've been taking some time off from facing it. Which doesn't change anything, of course. We are still in a state of madness or, more properly, the State of Arizona. People voted, for the most part, in a state of fear, which I rarely find useful. We did manage to save two very good Congresspeople, but so narrowly that it was worrisome. I mean, when you have an opponent who wants to eliminate the corporate tax, install a Value Added Tax, and completely eliminate the US Dept. of Education and all federal money for education - at a time when your state ranks #49 in education - and he almost wins, what do you make of that?

Still... when I called Anne election night to congratulate her on Andrew Cuomo's victory in the Gubernatorial race, she pointed out that in the long run, nothing much is going to change in our day to day lives, and the more I thought about that, the more sensible it seemed. It doesn't mean we shouldn't vote, or that we shouldn't try to effect change, it just means the world is highly unlikely to end tomorrow, no matter how lunatic the fringe.

And I find that oddly reassuring.

Jerry Brown was elected Governor of California again. Everything old is new again.

Love,
b

Dear Mom - T-Shirt

Dear Mom,

Saw a t-shirt today that made me want to call you:

"I like cats, but I can't eat a whole one myself"

Talk to you tomorrow, after the election.

Love,
b