Walking My Legs Off

I cannot say I'm in good shape, but I didn't expect the after shock of walking two hours through the hills of my neighborhood. And I'm planning to do it again tomorrow and Sunday. Anyway, it was definitely worthwhile to be out in the fine weather doing something political again. Today, my agenda was volunteer work for John DeStefano, candidate for State Senate. Door-to-door campaigning is always interesting: I met people already knew but didn't realize they lived one block over, and I talked to a lady who has lived in this neighborhood longer than I've been on the Earth. Nobody was rude, thankfully. No dogs to beware of either. The eye-opener came from the very first woman at home who said, "You are so brave to do anything political THIS year!" (What does she mean by that?! I'm reminded of Uncle Terry saying I should be more careful because of my pro-life license plate...) I'm sure some people would disagree with my exercise in democracy. Hey, there's a pun in that sentence that I quite like. I'll be hitting the road again and again because it is SO important.