How is change treating you, this year? We're about up to our necks in it. Bill is still working with the mighty Reactivity engineering team acquired by Cisco last year - now with a new role and a new product to work on. He manages more than he codes these days and he still likes his work. Mary wrapped up nearly 10 years at Nortel in January and just started a great new gig at Symantec this fall.
And what about national change? On our way to see family and birds, we kept running into the presidential campaign, energy and food politics, gay rights and immigration. It was McCain signs all over Orlando when our niece Sarah celebrated her third birthday in January. By June, when our younger niece Alison was baptized, it seemed For Sale signs had largely replaced campaign lawn signs. We saw the border fence threatening important bird areas of the Rio Grande this spring, farmers' markets in six states, wind farms in three, and hybrid cars everywhere.
In late October, we drove past hand-painted Obama signs in rural Wisconsin, a closed Mexican restaurant in Postville after the raids, and the dark, locked McCain office in Decorah, Iowa. When Mary's Mom visited us in July, our gay friends were legally able to marry. In November, we watched the election returns with Bill's folks and Adam here in Santa Clara and those rights were taken away.
In December, we stayed home and let the news come to us with our account statements. And we were at Erik's San Francisco Boys Chorus concert when they announced they will be singing at the presidential inauguration in January. Change happens and the national story goes on, whether we go to see it or it comes to us. When we're lucky, hope comes with it.We send you all our love at Christmas time and prayers for peace and happiness in the New Year
-Mary and Bill
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