Like most good Vermonters, I took this morning off to attend to democracy. Vermont still practice it the old-fashioned way. The first Tuesday in March All schools are closed… Some businesses to and everyone takes off work. And he goes and stands in a gym, library or church or Grange Hall to take care of their towns business for the year. I’ve been going to our town meeting every year I was in town since 1981. Many of the same folks are in there. In fact most of the heads are gray these days… Not too many young people in there. I remember the days that these meetings were full of antiwar and anti-nuclear protest… Today was actually pretty tame. Our good friend Clint Buxton presided… Just like his father used to. We all got a good lesson in Roberts rules and for nearly 3 hours we discussed the town’s business. Maintenance budgets, salaries, repairs, police reports… Nothing very exciting… Which made the whole thing very exciting.

It’s one of the few days a year that I see all of my neighbors… And that feels good

We also got to vote… Nothing too big on the ballot today… Had to guess on a few but for the most part all people I knew and liked

Here’s what it looks like from the back of the room

Meeting was dedicated to our friend Mike Hustus died last year… It was a great guy. It used to be a state policeman… Also very senior in the Vermont guard.

Marshal was They are to keep us on track with Roberts rules… Jarrod was there to photograph everything

The rest of the day was insanely busy… I’ve got a lot of prep for next week.… I was really happy when 6 o’clock rolled around and Yoga started. DIane did a wonderful chakra class… Then we all came in to eat

Ok .. enough for today

Nite all, nite Sam

-me