Well Spent

About ten days ago a friend sent me a link with the news that Bernie Sanders would be the keynote speaker at an event in our region.  I bought two tickets and on Saturday morning, packed up the Emperor and headed out to get in on the action.  I laid out a considerable sum to gain entrance -- it was a contribution to an organization -- but I was very glad I did.  We had reserved seats, and they were fantastic.  It was worth every penny, every inconvenience, and every moment.

Pretty much in the center of this photo, you can see a man standing at the left side of the stage -- he's wearing a gray suit and a pink tie.  Sitting next to him is Jane Sanders, the Senator's wife, and a woman I admire.  I watched her while he was speaking, and you can see it in this picture: she must have heard this talk a thousand times in the last year, in the last twenty years, but she's listening to him as if it's the first time.

Bernie said something I've been thinking and saying for a couple of months now: that "the revolution" has begun, and it began here in Kansas.  When the people of our state sent a bunch of right wing state representatives packing and replaced them with moderates and progressives, at the same time that the national scene went the other way, even I knew that something significant had happened.  The saying is, "Where Kansas goes, so goes the nation;" if that's true, then there is a light at the end of a tunnel, and we're seeing it first.