Senate President Beth Edmonds, D-Freeport, said she’s tired of the naysayers.

Throughout the fall, she’s met with different Rotary groups and others to talk about what’s good about Maine, and she brings her speech to the Augusta Rotary early Thursday morning.

“I’ve been trying to change the conversation statewide,” she said. “What gets focused on are all the bad things that are going on. In terms of the economy, that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

She said she’s found receptive audiences who are tired of hearing about gloom and doom.

“People are wanting some hope,” she said. “What’s part of our jobs is to say to people, there’s reason to be hopeful.”

Edmonds, who will finish her term as Senate president next year, isn’t sure what her future will hold. She has a regular job as director of the Freeport library and her immediate plans include catching up on her sleep.

But she hasn’t ruled out a return to politics, which could include a run for governor. She said financially, it’s not an easy decision to run for the Blaine House. Her library salary and her husband’s factory job don’t make them wealthy.

“The particular challenge of running for governor is, how would we live while we were running?” she said.