I'm sitting here with a cup of decaf coffee and it's finally starting to feel like fall which is appropriate given the lesson we had today in my class for those learning ESL (english as a second language). We spoke about trees, leaves and corn mazes; apple cider and climate patterns of their native countries. All things fall.  deciduous  With the election coming up, and the creeping-in-feeling of hopelessness with everything going on in the world - I decided to make a plan. A plan that would help deter the usual anxiety/depression that starts to invade my head around this time of year and is only amplified during election season. The major component of the plan was to find some place to volunteer and it needed to be a place where I'd feel like The Work was being done. You know... the work . The Work being direct community actions and assistance for those that need it with little to no barriers in receiving that help. I went to my little weekly trip to the library to pick u