Sept.1 - Issues for Nepean-Carleton

September - my favourite month. Not sure why as I, as a high school teacher, go back to work! Perhaps it is the old song:
"Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow."
It is election time - usually not a time to be slow and mellow - perhaps that is why only political junkies like elections and the rest of us just want to get it over with. This election - let's all - inlcuding me! - slow down, take time to REALLY think and ponder the issues and avoid sound bites, avoid negative advertising and simplistic jingoisms and most importantly say what we are going to DO once elected and DO IT.... slowly, patiently.
So as the song says; follow, follow the Green Party, follow us into a future which we can be proud of, a future where our children and grandchildren can look back at us today and be proud of us because we sacrificed form them.
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Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.