My thoughts go to yesterday's big news. Governor Kitzhaber resigned before his fourth term had really much begun. He's been called a durable and ubiquitous Oregon politician. The controversy surrounding his resignation has been described as bizarre, unprecedented and sad.
One could say it was love that brought him down. But love was just one element. Cylvia Hayes played a role. Her carelessness with the truth, craven ambition and missing ethics proved the undoing of them both. But had JK not somehow begun to slip, he would have never fallen. What happened to his sense of right and wrong? Four terms may be too long a time to surround a person, anyone, with the kind of deference and power we grant celebrities of many kinds. My sense is that he had begun to take it all for granted. He started to believe he really was the big man that could never stumble. He'd been hoisted so high up on that pedestal that a tumble was due. Cylvia, lovely, beautiful Cylvia provided the romance that brought him down.
Happy Valentines' Day. Cupid's arrow has brought equal parts tragedy and bliss since the dawn of time. John and Cylvia are just today's star struck lovers.
The Google doodle quotes ee cummings. Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.
We'll see how that works out for them.
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