POLITICIANS, SHUT UP AND LISTEN FOR A CHANGE

I'm constantly amazed at how much energy goes into shouting.

If everyone could put down their verbal sabers, and actually work on accomplishing  something, we could get quite a lot down.

But that's without the screaming about who is right and who is wrong (i.e. us and them).


If everyone could work together for the common good instead of their individual piece of the pie.

But that's putting aside the special interests that got you elected and are gonna get you re-elected.

If everyone could at least pretend to be adults and meet and discuss and COMPROMISE.


Which is not a heinous, filthy concept - it's called doing our best.

LET'S GET IN THE CAR AGAIN, SHALL WE?

I've driven quite a bit.

I began driving when I was around 12 - and no, it wasn't legal at all.


My first year of college was over 300 miles from where I grew up.

Then I moved about 2,000 miles more.

So I got accustomed to driving long distances

Some commutes to work were short - I even had a couple of jobs which I could walk to.


Some were pretty long; perhaps not in miles, but often over an hour driving time. D.C. especially was almost always guaranteed to be at least 45 minutes, even when it was less than 30 miles.



People who live near me do complain about having to drive 20 minutes to even get to the city limits of the nearest town.

And I admit to complaining to having to drive up to Tucson nowadays, which is only a bit more than 100 miles one-way.

But guess what.

Someone is going to do it for me tomorrow.

And I'm grateful.