Last night I started reading Nicholas Kristof’s memoir Chasing Hope.  It offers an opportunity to learn what journalists risk to bring us the news.  I was enticed when a friend told me the story of Kristof’s son’s birthday party in Japan.  Kristof set up the game of Musical Chairs. 

He writes on his blog: For Gregory’s birthday, we invited his classmates over and taught them to play musical chairs. Disaster! The children, especially the girls, were traumatized by having to push aside others to gain a seat for themselves. What unfolded may have been the most polite, most apologetic, and least competitive game of musical chairs in the history of the world.

Right now we have an election where one side blatantly lies and somehow it’s seen as okay.  In my opinion, there are a multitude of reasons to vote for Kamala Harris but there’s one that defines a democracy, health care for all including those with preexisting conditions.  We’re in this together, and we each contribute in our way. Just that one issue should decide the presidential election.

Life is not a game. We live on a planet of abundance in a country rich with resources. There’s no reason to leave anyone out. We have enough chairs.