It was another warm afternoon. At 3:30pm I had Hansel, Fritz and Zana in my Honda to drive nine miles to the San Pedro House North to let the dogs run for a bit. I hadn't taken any dog down to the river since moving to my new place.
I turned on the NPR news while still in my driveway and learned that former President Jimmy Carter, our longest-living president, had died earlier in Plains, GA. He had been in home hospice for two years, suffering from metastatic melanoma. He was 100 years old.
He was president when I graduated from high school and the reason why I have always leaned left politically. It is not because I am for tax and spend - taxes are necessary for revenue- but because as a nation we must take care of our communities in which we live. Carter embolded that ideology perfectly.
tbc
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