“We are near the end of a long road. The road began for me one night, years ago and many miles from here. I was home after a long day, a long day in the law profession, a profession where I fought every day for the freedom to give our citizens access to our country’s great resources, to protect the jobs of working people such as yourselves. I was dedicated to my profession, but until that night I had no idea that dedicated as I was, that profession was not my true calling.
“I remember I stayed up late that night, because when I looked up, the night sky was full of falling stars. Meteors – the heavens reaching out to us. Somehow, that was a special night. Somehow, without a continuum threshold or a church or a following to guide me, another world came very close to me, reached out. That ni
