In the pantheon of “Two kinds of people…” one of the most storied is “loves rollercoaster rides” and the other is “detests them with a passion usually reserved for automated junk mail phone calls.” I hate a roller coaster ride. And I hate the notion that fear mongerers can actually use someone like me as the thing to fear. Really. We have a lot to worry about if I’m a threat to anything other than efficiency.

>>>With so much on the line, I couldn’t help but wonder, as each family passed us: Are they noticing this? Can they really see how much and how well we love our children? Will a memory of this ordinary moment of parental care come back to them, in that extraodinary moment in the voting booth when they contemplate writing our family out of the state’s constitution?

The answer is yes. I wish you’d hang onto that a little more tightly. I see the change, even if change doesn’t always seem to move fast enough on human timescale.

(((LD)))