Sometimes you just cannot believe your luck.

Seeing the candidates in person was really not a possibility in either of my first two election forays.  For reasons of timing and range, it simply could not be.  And while the cargo city bus allows me so much more flexibility and greater range, I barely allowed myself to hope that my path would cross with either of the candidates.

But there I was on Tuesday when my morning campaign website check in revealed that Hillary Clinton would be at Iowa Democratic Party “Women Win” early vote rally in Cedar Rapids just as I was arriving.  Newbo City Market at 1:00.  Register, send, celebrate.

No such luck with the Trump calendar.  That is, not until yesterday morning.  It appeared as an added stop on the Trump schedule. McGrath Amphitheater, Cedar Rapids at 7:00pm for the same day.  Register, send, celebrate.

And in the spirit of celebration, please meet Jade.  She is a poet and youth activist that I met at Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church.  A local, she is currently working in New York City and I think you will see that she takes the GMBC spirit wherever she is.