Yesterday I got a piece of pretty glossy campaign literature in the mail. It was from Jean Godden, excellent incumbent Seattle City Councilmember, running for her own seat again. If you live in Seattle you may have gotten it, too.
What Seattleites may not realize is that before Jean Godden could become a friend to the Environment, she had to meet it and get to know it. I mean, we all hear about how great the Environment is, but people tell us George Bush is hot stuff, and I don't think that's true.One day Jean Godden was standing around at Occidental Park, when a voice in her head said, "Lookit all the trees around here. Pretty!" She asked a cameraman if the trees were the Environment. The camerman didn't know. He was from the P-I or something. He said, "You should ask somebody who knows, like Al Gore, maybe."
Jean Godden thought that was a great idea, but she didn't have Al Gore's cell phone number. So instead she went to North Seattle where all the smart local people live (some of them even went to Roosevelt!) and she asked a local. He pointed her east.Going east from Crown Hill isn't easy! Fortunately there was this boat thingy on the shore of the big lake that was in the way so she didn't have to turn back.
When she got to the other side of the big lake she met a big scary Indian man. She saved herself by staying very very still. She thought, "They go for the motion. I will be as one with the weeds, and the danger will surely pass." And it did!
Finally Jean found the Environment, in a far off land the natives call Sno-kwal-mee Nash-un-nal For-est. Now the voice in her head was telling her, "Get me out of here!" But she ignored the silly voice in her head just this one time, and told her cameraman to set up his tripod. "We're going to make campaign literature right here!"
And that's how that glossy mailer came to be!
2 comments:
This is so awesome. How did I miss this?
You were on vacation. I sent you an email and got an automatic message telling me you were out of the office.
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