Not at town meeting

[asakiyume]

Today is town meeting in my town. I started to drive there--I'm all upons my civic duty these days--and then I turned around and came back. Why? Because I actually hate town meeting. Not the part where people get a chance to speak for or against something--that can be interesting. No, it's the part where people shout yay or nay to vote on things. Eleven years ago on this very day, I wrote an LJ entry about it.

I like a secret ballot. I **LOVE** a secret ballot. I am intimidated by public shouting and think there may be other people like me. I don't think who-can-shout-the-loudest is the best way to determine the outcome on issues of importance to people in town.

... I got home, and the wood thrush, who has returned to us, was singing.

Have a picture from yesterday: water, sky, something thin and green connecting them.

Comments

[petrichor_pirate]

Your picture reminded me of the Jewish concept of to-hu va-vo-hu, which basically means chaos, but it's what the world looked like before God created the world. In some versions (or at least the way I remember it), it's not that there was nothing, it's that everything that could create the world already existed, it was just all mixed up together at once.

[asakiyume]

I really like that idea. It's hugely consoling, because if everything always was, but just mixed up, then maybe everything always will be. Also, I like the idea of everything all mixed up, and God putting the pieces together in a way we recognize.

[sovay]

Have a picture from yesterday: water, sky, something thin and green connecting them.

That's a good world tree right there.

[asakiyume]

It is!

[shewhomust]

Town Meeting always sounds like such a great idea, I'm sorry it doesn't perform as well as it should.

But that's a very soothing picture.

[asakiyume]

The people who love it, love it--I'm in a minority. I don't even know that I can say it performs poorly; I just think it's susceptible to being manipulated (but then again, what isn't) and I personally don't have a constitution that's suited for it.

Glad you like the picture! The spot was lovely.

[cmcmck]

Which one is the reflection?

[asakiyume]

Quite!

(But I was boring and posted the picture in the ordinary way, so the bottom part is the reflection.)

[amaebi]

We USians use Who Can Shout Loudest a lot. And stuff some throats with muffling stuffs.

[asakiyume]

If you enjoy shouting, it must all feel very exhilarating, but ....

[syom]

I should have done the same thing.
I am intimidated by public shouting and think there may be other people like me.

Your waters beautiful!

[asakiyume]

Thank you ♥

[wayfaringwordhack]

I'd rather listen to the wood thrush, too.

[asakiyume]

The wood thrush was a little piece of eternity :-)