Working

I'm still working, not full time, but quite a lot. I find it a useful counterpoint to campaigning, an area where I find it too easy to lose perspective. I'm happy to be able to do both. We had a good week canvassing, went to a lot of houses, talked to a good number of people, and got some more signs put out. We're going to have a fundraiser, my first, in a couple of weeks, and a couple of friends have offered to have neighbors in to meet me. It's really been extraordinary.

This afternoon several people from the Solicitor General's Office attended the passing of the gavel at the Supreme Court. Once every two years a different justice becomes Chief Justice, today Justice Barbara Pariente yielded the gavel to Justice Fred Lewis. It was a very nice function, filled with affection and laughter, very different from most Court activities. I got a bit teary when he took the oath of office, Justice Lewis had his wife and daughter hold the Bible for him while he took the oath. His daughter, Lindsay, was helping her mother to hold the bible, and while he was taking the oath, she reached out with her other hand for a moment to play with the tucks on the front of his robe. He looked down at her and smiled, and for a second lost his place in repeating the oath. It was a touching moment, such a powerful man so tender to his child.

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