Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be Happier.

This week we'll talk about why you might create a blues bag and discuss a hack that relates

to both reading and parenting.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness could habits in human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

Elizabeth, it always makes me happier just talking to you.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA and Gretchen.

It makes me happier, voting.

Ah, before we dig in to this week's episode, we want to remind everybody of all our listeners

here in the United States that Election Day is coming up on Tuesday, November 6.

So remember to register to vote.

You can go to www.usa.gov slash register to vote and we will put all these links in the show notes

because it's really important to figure out what you need to do and buy when in order to be registered.

Yeah, and Gretchen, it can be slightly different in every state like Missouri and New York and

California all have slightly different rules so you want to check your state.

Right, those are all our home states and they're all very different and what they require.

And thinking about voting and registering to vote reminds me of one of my favorite lines from

Winston Churchill because you know Elizabeth when I was writing 40 ways to look at Winston Churchill.

One of the great things was all these amazing quotations from Churchill.

Yes, this is a speech that he gave in the House of Commons on November 11, 1947 and he said,

many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise.

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