Today begins the winter tour of Boise junior high school gyms starting with Hillside.
If the fifty states were divided by population, so the Senate would be more like the House, here’s what it might look like.
My old office in the Idaho Statehouse
I had a chance this afternoon to visit the Idaho Capitol Building that will officially open this Saturday. The above photo is taken looking out one of the windows of my old corner office. The office is now a private stairwell for use not by the public but for legislators and staff. The stairway also ate up the adjacent office, and the one next to that is now converted into a private elevator. The corner offices on the northeast side are also now stairs. Sort of appalling that a $100 million project could not find a better solution than eating up the most coveted space of any office building: the corner office.
I plan to spend more time on Saturday and give the building a close look. I worked in the Statehouse for seventeen years on three different floors for the Governor (1987-1994) and Secretary of State (1977-1985). So I’ll have more to report at that time.
Behold the Dark and Bitter Night
Behold the dark and bitter night
when shunned by kings, a king is born;
in stable cruel, a tiny light
brings hope and peace for the forlorn:
Behold, behold, this night.
Behold this dark and bitter night
where bombs yet fall and lives are crushed
and children scorned still raise their plight,
the Christ Child brings his Word of hope:
Behold, behold this night.
Behold a new and blazing morn
that blinds a broken world ensnared
in greed and pow’r; but love is born!
This tiny light of Christ is shared
and love, love, love, is born;
and love, love is born.
- Thomas Fielding
