Sunday, February 24, 2008

Snow, snow, and more snow

Greetings from the Badgers of Bangor! Here it is the end of February and it just keeps on snowing! I don't get out as much as I used to, but Bruce pitches in with the grocery shopping and Tom has cooked a few excellent meals from his Indian cookbook. And I have been busy in the art studio, working on my Musicians of Bangor series.

A few weeks ago John, Austin and I (Tom was in Texas) attended the Democratic Caucus here in Maine. It was a chance to be registered and cast our votes all on the same day. We stood in line together at the Civic Center for an hour and a half, grateful that most of the time we were indoors as it was snowing outside. Governor Baldacci made his way through our crowd and shook my hand, and then a little while later John Kerry shook my hand also. I was sorry there were no loudspeakers in our anteroom so we could hear the speeches while we waited to register.

But the important thing was, we did get registered, and we went to our Precinct Room, and were counted...we three voted for Barack Obama. For the first time in decades I felt an excitement about the political process, and that my vote counted. These are exciting times.