Goodness & Badness

After a week where I saw the bad side of a few people in my town and the surrounding area, at our local School Budget Meeting, today I was able to go out and just see the beauty around me. This was something that I really needed to do.

I took Anneliese and went to get the mail. Now on Saturday, almost everyone goes to pick up their mail in the late morning before the Post Office closes for the day. We saw so many wonderful people. Older neighbors and young families. I spoke to everyone I saw and I smiled. Boy, did that feel good!

My wonderful little town has not been so wonderful during this election period. There has been back stabbing, lying, cheating and empty, smiling, promises. I know, this is common in “Politics”, however it has not been the case in my sleepy little town, until this election. A woman who moved here just over a year ago has managed to take a group of people who had been working well together over the years, and has turned everyone against each other. She has also found her “John Edwards” pretty boy candidate, and gotten him in place to take over the school board, despite the fact that his wife is a teacher with a great deal of power in the system.

The pretty boy candidate is also a Bully. Yes, he is the Bully I served notice to the other day. I do not like liars, cheats and people who take advantage of others. This man and his crew are the epitome of small town evil. No joke.

Most of the week I was feeling very depressed about all of this. If you wondered why I was not writing much, this was it. I have just felt sick about all of this.

So today I needed to get out and walk around and speak to people and remind myself why I love this town and most of the people who live here.

I was not disappointed. They’re still here, the good people of my town. They are the ones who are born here, work here, live here and die here. They may not be the richest people, but they are good, hardworking people.

They are why, I am running for Library Trustee, and also why I have joined a community service club.

The other night I actually got up and spoke for the lower income families in my community, in front of over 500 people. Anyone who knows me, will tell you that is way out of my comfort zone. But I did it for the little children that I have worked with in this town, whose families have very little, and whose voices aren’t being heard right now. You simply have to keep taxes down, or these families will be forced out of our beautiful town.

I am all for good education, but not if it forces families out of our community.

Anyway, today was my day to fall in love with my town again and to find the goodness, and I was not disappointed. It was there, right where I knew it would be.

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