I’m stoked!

by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton

I would love to share beer or coffee and chat with Kamala Harris, and I would even buy a deep-fried Twinkie from Tim Walz, which is saying something. (I’m told they have deep-fried Everything at midwestern state fairs.)

As it turns out, and much to everyone’s surprise (including mine), we are moving to Tim Walz’s state, Minnesota, at the end of the month. I thought Montana was Home, but then I met Lake Superior and realized we could have that and be within a 3-hour drive of one of our kids and one flight of the other, and that did it. We are both sad and happy to leave the Bitterroot.

I am so grateful for our 12 years here – even for whoever it was who called me a “feminazi” for my letters to the Bitterroot Star. Thank you so much to the Star for printing just about every letter they receive and providing a community forum, so we can have a sense that some of us may have strange perspectives, but we’re all in this together.

As the Rev. Raphael Warnock, US Senator for Georgia, says, “A vote is a kind of prayer about the kind of world you want to live in.” Please keep that in mind. Since Harris and Walz came together, the joy of possibility is palpable. We can all be kind. Imagine where that can lead!