We are concerned right now with electing Bernie, but we are also aware of the much larger issue of climate change and of how the results of this election will affect our nation's response to the peril.

If you have not read any of my other essays then you must understand I am a very upbeat and positive person. Please note I understand there is harm and evil in the world, but we have the ability and capabilities to help to make a positive difference and confront these issues. I believe in luck and that I am living a charmed life- greatest country at the greatest point of time in history.

I posted last week about trial balloons being sent up by the PTB regarding the DEA "re-thinking" pot as a schedule I drug, two states passing a $15.00 an hour minimum wage, and Obama sending a message to Pfizer on moving to an Irish tax haven. We seem to have a new dawn of liberal thinking on matters that have been slammed as wild-eyed for years.

I am old school that is why I used this phrase from my distant past.