It is my birthday today!
I was given the option of the day off, but I turned it down. There is a gift I want to give myself, and I can't get that by sleeping in. I had to go out and create it, and for my birthday I want you to help me.
I want the world... but not this world. I want a world for us to share where people are active and involved - where they put their values into action! Not just at caucuses or in November, but all around the calendar from birthday to birthday.
Let me tell you about what I am doing for my 41st, and what I want from you...
I got up today and went to my desk at the non-profit service organization Democrats Work and put videos on the website that shared what Democrats did to bring Christmas gifts to the poor in Denver, Colorado and Wichita, Kansas.
I got up today and helped spread the word about North Carolina Lt. Governor Beverly Purdue, who took time out of her campaign for Governor (and took twenty of her volunteers) to work at the MANNA FoodBank.
I am sitting in a library study room right now, waiting for fighting Democrat Joe Whitcomb to arrive for 'call time' so we can raise the money to help him oust a Republican from a seat in the Colorado State Senate. Not just because Joe looks good on paper, but because Joe showed up in the freezing rain to collect coats at a coat drive for the people of his district.
I will be at Drinking Liberally tonight, tilting one back for Cindy Lowery, a candidate for the Colorado State House who finds time to take off her heels, put on her boots, and volunteer in her community.
I want you to help by wishing me a happy birthday in the comments!
Maybe if we get enough, people will come to see what is up in here.
With so many eyes are on Presidential politics in distant places, people need to know there is a place here for those who want to talk about what is going on in their states and want to get together to do service in their neighborhoods.
And I want you to pledge to do something, anything, in that big offline world that makes it a small bit better. Plant a tree. Give blood. Recycle. Make this the world you want for your birthday.