It’s almost like pulling teeth, but I’m trying to find out what Mike wants for Xmas and make a list both for me and others who want to get him Xmas presents. Here it goes:
-New memory for his computer
1 Gig Ram chip for MacBook Pro
-Slippers (size 12)
-Playstation 3
-TV adapter for his MacBook Pro
(need to go to apple store and ask)
-Digital SLR camera
Author: marga (Page 110 of 158)
One of my favorite lines from any tango goes like this:
…yo comprendo que en la vida
se cuidan los zapatos
andando de rodillas
Which means “I understand that in life, you take care of your shoes by walking on your knees.”
I think few things are more true than that, and I see that I often walk on my knees as well. Not who I want to be. I rather be the person from “My Way”. So I’m going to stand up.
Sometimes I have doubts. Perhaps not often. I feel that what I’m doing is meaningless, that I’m wasting my life behind a computer when I could be doing… what? I haven’t come up with a better answer. But I want to do something that uses my intellectual powers more, that is not just rote, that is not the same damn thing that I’ve been doing for a decade. But then I get recognition from the outside and poof, for another while, at least, everything is OK.
Yesterday I received a message from a person I didn’t know, who told me I was the only person he respected in the world and thanked me for my work. That can’t be true, of course, but it massaged my ego in all the right places. What I do, does matter – even if it’s rote.
The elections are *almost* over, the democrats took the house, they may have taken the Senate, and Mike won!!! What a day of celebration today is. Mike’s victory was decisive at almost 20 points ahead of his opponent. And Mike ran a clean campaign. There was no bad mouthing of his opponent (or his wife), no stealing of signs, no fake endorsements and no changing of party affiliation to sway voters. It’s nice to know that sometimes the best candidate does win – even if it takes a herculean effort to get there.
We were lucky in that we had the support of many, many people. A volunteer graphic designer made the website, the signs and the flyers. Our local coffeeshop owner made and printed flyers, gave us a home base and tons of free coffee. And tons of volunteers provided advise, made phone calls, walked precincts, etc. etc. etc.
Mike, of course, spent innumerable hours working on his campaign: getting endorsements, getting financial contributions (we had to raise $10K!), schmoozing with people, learning more about the job, calling people, walking precincts, handing out flyers, you name it. Blood, sweat and tears went into this work. OK, maybe not that many tears, though the girls did cry a couple of time when daddy had to go to yet another meeting.
But alas, it’s all done now. As hard as school board work may be, it’ll be a cakewalk in comparison to what running the race was. I’m ready to relax, enjoy a couple of days sans kids and sans campaign and feel free again.
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