Time to Move Forward

This is what I love about Bethany.  As I'm writing this, I'm sitting on my back porch after work listening to the birds all around me and watching the cats wish they could catch them.  The hustle and bustle of work is gone, replaced by the relative peace and quiet of home.  My garden needs work, but there's still time.  Bethany really has a small town comfort and rural, neighborly feel.

Unfortunately, there seem to be some who are intent on changing that.  As opposed to previous years, when the post-election period was a time of letting bygones be and rolling up sleeves to pitch in together to make the town better, we are assailed with continued partisan bickering and whining.  A recent letter in local papers seems intent on dragging Bethany into the same sort of continuous partisan sniping that is ruining DC.  

I hope we are not going to be driven into a pattern of chronic campaigning like we see in Washington, with a two year cycle of attacking and posturing beginning as soon as the voting machines are sealed.  I understand that campaigns can get bare-knuckled and more than a little emotional.  I like to think we all realize that and can look past the rhetoric.  But the election is over, now is the time to bury the hatchets and get back to work; time to put personal grudges and personalities aside and do the right thing for the community.  Our first opportunity is coming soon.  We have the Annual Town Meeting coming up on Monday at 7PM in Town Hall.  I hope you all can come, speak, and listen to your neighbors, and then vote.

That's it for now.  I will post as often as is feasible, and will probably range over a variety of topics, political and not.  I welcome reader comments, but will ask that you keep them topical and avoid language that is  offensive,  inappropriate, or directed at a person rather than an idea.  Hope you keep reading.