Election Season, Fall 2020 -Longing

It is 5:00 PM on a Beautiful fall evening. I have just returned from a walk through my neighborhood to finish the very last of my election info drop offs. The people have been kind this year, in general. I love that about my fellow Democrats. They seem calm and equanamous even in the face of this year's trials, pandemics, insults from the other side, economic uncertainty and hardship, school closures... all the many events of this year that could cause a person to be negative. Now I say my prayers. I filled out my own ballot and toasted with a glass of wine as I did so. Here's to changing the leadership and repairing the country. The background worries and night sweats hover around the edges of every day. I imagine how devastated many Germans were when they got the results of their 1933 election. Tough cookies, many fought the regime any way. I think of the years we've spent in political activism and it brings a profound weariness. I send all my best energy out into my country, my cosmos. I wish I knew magic, I would cast a spell. For now the sweetness of this fall evening belies the dire events going on in my country. I won't list them here, it's time to watch the sunset and pray, pray, pray.