The personalities are fleeting but the principles are permanent. Hopefully not semi-permanent. I'm talking about how we organize as a group of 305 million individuals, the grand experiment in self-government that was launched 232 years ago and will hopefully extend through future generations (feels quite shaky now, though, doesn't it?). So let's take a break from the campaign crud and think beyond the relative temporariness of all the faces we've grown to love an/or hate.

From Weebles Wobblog I wait in the clearing for them to join me. It is my celebration, after all. The sun is shining, bathing the lea in a warm glow. There is an entire meadow of soft greenery for us to dig our toes into. Nothing sharp, nothing dangerous, nothing to mar our time together. There is just the slightest breeze. The sky is the most pleasant timeless blue imaginable.