Still up at 3 am

Auuuggghh!!! It’s 3 am and I’m still awake. Had to "work" until midnight…Hours at the County Fair are 9 am ‘til midnight. And this has been a DISMAL event. Temperatures at 100+ for the last two days. The kiss of death for food concessions. When it’s that hot, nobody goes to the fair, and those who do, don’t eat. The only line has been at the Hawaiian Shave Ice booth. I’ve decided to look past this event to next weekend. ANOTHER county fair…oh boy! Hoping, at least, that the weather will not be quite this excruciating.

BTW, here is the answer to my little "quiz" of yesterday:

A VISION FOR AMERICA: A NEW COVENANT

GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION NEW YORK CITY 7/16/92

I’m still immersed in the Clinton book. I’ve had more time to read than I’ve really wanted the last few days. I’ve found myself doing something I NEVER do when I read…I’m marking and highlighting entire passages. More like I would do with a textbook than a pleasure read. But there’s so much of substance here…things I’d like to be able to go back and savor, to remember.

I particularly liked the "them’d to death" quote. This country is in such dire need of unity these days. We are TOO polarized. We actually hate each other, in the most strident of terms, because of our political opinions. There’s no such thing as agreeing to disagree. And compromise? Does anyone even know the meaning of the word anymore? How can we be surprised that our government never really accomplishes anything, when none of us, from the highest-ranking government officials, down to the most mundane "man-on-the-street," can refrain from demonizing political opinions that differ from our own?

"We need each other. All of us, we need each other. We don't have a person to waste."

NO ONE is garbage. We need to understand that, and work together to keep this country great. Hard to do when we’re not in the immediate aftermath of some horrible tragedy. But we CANNOT wait until another disaster befalls us before we to start to pull together.