November Notes..............a day of counting. Do you ever think about all the ways we count? All the tally sheets, time cards, calendars, score sheets, census, head counts, roll call, check book balances, sick days left, months til vacation, or birthday, or Christmas, or a loved ones return? So many things to count. So many things to tabulate a number of, for, about. It's November 7th. Veteran's Day is coming up in just a few more days. But today the counting is of votes. Tallies on slips of paper, check marks on a long form, or electronic blips on a new computerized voting machine. I voted in my local and state elections today, including two referundums. Amend our State Constitution to indicate that marriage is only between a man and a woman or don't amend. And Re-enstate the death penality or don't. We voted for a governor, and a whole flock of people to help him run the state and spend our tax dollars. So many serious things to think about and to count on a cool, gray, semi-rainy day in Wisconsin.
Counting is important. Counting counts, both literally and figuratively. It seems as if anyone with reasoning ablitities and self awareness can or could...count. I'm all for counting...in regard to issues, political races, days til Christmas and the like. Not so much for the "counting" that includes you by color of skin, ethnic origins, personal preferances, or sets rank according to what you "have" or what you drive, or the clothes you wear. I have little use for that kind of counting. I'm glad today is over now at 10:43 p.m. The election results will rule the airwaves for one more day, and then disappear, I hope.
So here's my two cents worth.
Friends Count...
You have such a special way about you...
a way of knowing just what I need
to make me happy...
and nothing makes me happier
than being friends with you.
Hugs, Finn