There are three different ways from which I choose to drive to and from work each day.  Stopping by the bank in the early a.m. today caused me to drive the street less traveled by - at least by me most mornings.  Heading down the hill to the last stoplight before turning on Pacific Street I saw three simple words headlining two sets of windows:

Read. Think. Vote.

A beautiful statement for this time of year - election time - that always makes me feel emotional about being an American.  And a public librarian.  As the bookmark says "Public libraries are both a symbol and a cornerstone of true democracy."  As is voting in free and open elections.

So exercise your right to read, think and vote.  And whatever the way each of us decides (via mail-in ballot or in the privacy of a voting booth), whatever the outcome unfolding when we head to sleep Tuesday night, I choose to hope that, despite our different paths, we will all arrive together, indivisible, when we wake up on the morning of November 5, 2008.