What if business and logistics force me to move? To a place like Silver Spring, Maryland, or Arlington, Virginia?
Not up on the map? Both of those are … inside the beltway.
I feel a little dirty just thinking about this, but this may become unavoidable in very short order.
Well, here it is. The belly of the beast.
Wait, here’s a much better picture – the train comes to our little town twice a day, it’s a ten hour odyssey if I want to attend a yoga class or eat anything other than Mexican. The trains inside the beltway run into the wee hours of the morning.
This is one of the places I work now, high above the corn desert of eastern Illinois.
If I make this move I’ll get to sit in this seat a little more frequently. That will help move the Progressive agenda forward …
I’ll be able to see this …
But if you turn on your heel on a cold night you’ll see these guys – spin 180 degrees in the spot where I stood to take this and you can see the White House.
I’ve been castigating those in Washington since about my third diary here – people go, they get fattened up on cocktail weenies, and they forget that there is an angry, hungry country outside the bubble.
Given where I came from can I safely go into this place and not become that which I despise?
Maybe it’s crass to talk about money, but that’s part of it. D.C. will provide for me more in a week than I make for a whole month at my part time day job here in Illinois. I could, like, afford to go to the doctor and the dentist. Both of those are getting to be an issue again and I don't see a path forward here in the middle of nowhere that doesn't involve some sort of move.
Well, what do you think? Darcy Burner did it for a while and it doesn't seem to have harmed her. And if I get out of the bubble regularly as part of what I do then I won't get confused about what's really important.