. . . just feel entirely different.
Sure. On this particular “Sometimes Monday” I woke up in a different physical place – in my little cabin on the lake up north. My view is different. The smells and sounds are different. The map of my day is different.
And, as it turns out, the national landscape is different, too.
Like many of you, I have been deeply mired in dread for the past several months . . . and especially so for the past few weeks. Deeply. Mired. I have been trying to reconcile myself to a long and ugly election cycle . . . and (gulp) the end of democracy. And decency. And integrity. And hope. And, frankly, it’s felt a lot like . . . despair.
So I was surprised and amazed at what the words of someone (that would be President Biden) . . . doing the right thing at the right time . . . could do to elevate my spirits. (And so quickly, too.)
Sometimes Mondays . . . feel different. Really different.
They feel energized.
They feel fresh.
I think there’s . . . a glimmer of hope again.
(Can you feel it, too?)
“It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world.”
—Mary Oliver
I am SO EXCITED – haven’t felt this level of energy for months. AND I cannot wait to get my Kamala for President shirt 🙂
I feel a sense of lightness since President Biden made his announcement and I feel more hopeful about our collective future.
I think I’m afraid to hope. I plan to work on releasing that fear and focusing on hope instead .
I am thinking a lot about hope and who gets to influence my own personal hopes. It IS a serious thing to be alive and to grasp hope 🥰
Is hope tinged with a bit of trepidation a thing? I don’t know if President Biden wrote his letter with the help of advisors and/or speechwriters but it was a beautiful thing.
Great quote and at a minimum I feel like the national dialogue will greatly shift now, and that’s a great thing.
I still have some dread, but I am feeling a lot lighter today!
Echoing Sarah…still feeling a bit of dread, but also relieved to a degree. The landscape has changed and that is a very good thing.
Who better to run against a convict than a prosecutor?
At first it felt late, but thinking about it, the timing may be perfect by catching the other guy on his back foot.
I was shocked at how quickly the relief settled in… followed by real, actual, achievable HOPE. It’s going to take a while to shake off the nervousness — that went way deeper than I realized.
I keep my ears tuned, but the volume is turned way down. But, the last 24 has felt like I can breathe again. Fingers crossed.
I feel like Carole, afraid to hope, but I think things are beginning to move in the right direction.
I feel the short time to November will be a positive thing: less time to tear her down, and a shorter period to keep this renewed hope and enthusiasm high. Yesterday’s news was such an emotional turnaround!
Yes, I also felt entirely different this morning. It’s amazing what a glimmer of hope can do for the outlook.
The selflessness of President Biden is amazing in an age of “power keeping” but how this all happened feels magical and I am so excited to see great huge cracks in that glass ceiling!
, LA forever!