Contemplations At Dawn

The folks who are on staff at the Green Party's national headquarters are very friendly and down-to-earth. Blair Bobier has been quite kind and swift to reply to my emails, and although he had to inform me that, at this late stage in the campaign, David Cobb has practically no time whatsoever to interview with me, there is a fairly good chance that I might be able to do an interview with him after the election.

I only have one day of vacation remaining, and for the first time (out of all the vacations I've taken in my life), it actually feels like I had a full nine days worth of vacation. All of the other times when I've taken vacations, the end of the vacation has run up on me so quickly that I found myself wondering, How could this be over already? Where did the time go?

You've just read the beginning of my post...and here is the rest of it.

Staying home for most of it, I think, has been the key factor in making this vacation feel like it didn't slip away from me. When you take a vacation and spend it running around, doing lots of things and rushing here and there-or even travelling from one point to another, to another, to another...you aren't truly resting and relaxing, so your time will go by much faster.

Of course, there is something to be said for traveling, for visiting loved ones, and for seeing the sights. And, for many people, staying at home for most or all of their vacation wouldn't feel like a vacation at all.

I've enjoyed it, though, and I've especially enjoyed spending time with my daughter. We've grown closer over these past eight days, nurturing a friendship which every parent should have with their child(ren). I only hope that this friendship can be maintained, onward through her childhood, through her difficult teenage years, and into adulthood.

While it is difficult, I know that is not impossible, for I've seen other parents (my older sister, for example), who have done this successfully.