How Can I Return?

For months -- about 8 months out of the past year -- I canvassed for Warren in NH. I'd never done that before, not for any Presidential candidate: knocking on the doors of strangers, trying to figure out how to assess in about 2 seconds what sort of approach might keep them from shutting the door on me, could just maybe interest them in opening up and considering what I had to say.

Most of the time, the doors stayed closed. No one was home, or at least not answering. (This is what writers call "a metaphor.") And every time that was the case -- every single time, I am not kidding -- this introvert who felt deeply uncomfortable about doing this at all, would feel a little rush of relief, followed by a surge of guilt at my own relief.

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