Saturday I was out canvassing with my daughter for Chris Gorsek in East County. She has an awesome social studies teacher in Sellwood Middle School who has a service requirement (24 hours over several months) which includes things like food bank work or work with religious youth groups and also political canvassing -- he is very big on youth getting civically engaged. We got a big treat when we got back -- not only were the candidates there to rally the next shift -- Chris Gorsek and Shemia Fagan and Laurie Monnes-Anderson -- and Rep. Michael Dembrow who was on the doors to secure his ability to work in a majority, but also Sen. Diane Rosenbaum and Representative Suzanne Bonamici. It was an awesome line-up of women leaders for my daughter to meet and hear (she met Chris and Michael too). Shemia Fagan gave a pep talk that spoke exactly to service, about someone she had met on the doors who talked to her about how voting was her (the person's) chance to have a voice. I was also impressed by Bonamici, who focused like a laser on my daughter once I introduced them. A nice bit of serendipity.