Life Trees, Bolivia
Even though both of my parents have aged into Republicans, I was raised as a Democrat. (Now there’s a mind game.) When Dukakis and Bush were debating on TV in 1988, my mother explained that the reason to vote Democratic was “because Democrats care about poor people.” (Her political party of choice changed when she became a born-again Christian.) The reason I like reading about the president of Bolivia is because I was taught to admire the attitude he has toward those people at the bottom of the economy. I also think Bolivia is a beautiful word. I have been sitting in Vivace, with its huge windows looking into huge trees, reading about “a country that’s seen 189 coups d’etat since 1825.”
You should listen to your parents more often...
"A young person who is a republican has no heart, an old person who is a democrat has no brain."