Quote of the Day

I love a good quote. You could say that I collect them, I have a book in which I write any quote that I stumble upon and want to remember. It is almost full and has been an ongoing project for over 10 years now. It's great to go back and look through them all, to see the changes in ink and slight changes in my handwriting and try to remember what was going on in my life that made a particular quote significant to me. I will probably post lots of Quotes of the Day here, today's is courtesy of the Real Simple Daily Thought email:

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."

-Anita Roddick (the late activist and founder of The Body Shop)

In this historically close primary season (at least on the Democratic side), people should not underestimate just how much their one vote matters. In the democracy that we all live in, where the government (at least in theory) is "of the people, by the people and for the people," all of us citizens matter and it is our duty to participate in the process. I always irks me when I read that average voter turnout in the United States is only about ONE HALF of people eligible to vote. There are a whole host of reasons that people choose not to vote, but I am of the mind that if you don't vote, you can't complain. Democratic voter turnout in the primaries has been incredibly high, especially when compared with Republican turnout, and I take this to mean that the Democrats are much more inspired this time around, with two very solid candidates and a hunger for, yes I am going to use that buzzword, CHANGE! What an exciting time.