As time goes by...

There's a book our daughters used to love for us to read to them called "Oh What a Busy, Busy Day".

That pretty much describes the past year for me.

A year ago I was running for city council, for the second time in four years.  Election day almost a year ago had nearly the exact same results as the time before, with me coming up a few dozen votes short.  Interestingly enough though, in both cases, losing the election turned out to be a much better thing for me than winning would have been, in retrospect.

The first time, the result of my running for office was that I got to know a bunch of wonderful people and ended up being invited to be among the founding board members of Wheat Ridge 2020, and that three year experience was just great.  Full of ups and downs; some exciting beginnings and disappointing results, but overall very educational, worthwhile, interesting and fun.  It's hard to ask for much more than than, really.

This past year, there didn't appear to be any such positive outcome - at least initially.  I was spent, emotionally, physically, and even financially.  There were stresses in our family about a variety of things; the real estate business was showing no signs of improvement; in short, it wasn't fun at all.  Somehow though, I didn't get too down about it.  I'm a generally "glass is half-full" sort of person, and though very disappointed at losing the race again, and especially frustrated about some of the "politics can be messy" aspects of the campaign, I was generally just ready to set politics aside and move on to new things.

There's the saying that when one door closes, another opens - well that's what happened to me; and how.

I'll add that story in another post later...