Today is the day
Today is the day. So long dreaded. An event, a future unknowable, populated by terrible possibility. Rank with fear.
Millions of people in this country (perhaps billions around the world) woke up this morning aware that today may well be a profound and irreparable shift. Fear. Hope. More fear.
I woke up today aware of another possibility. Today my mother goes in for heart surgery. She’s in there right now, as I tap this into my phone in a hospital waiting room. So yes, today is the day, long ominous on the calendar, with terrible possibility lurking ahead.
Donald Trump terrifies me. He goes so far beyond merely unqualified as to be genuinely dangerous to the assumptions that have made my life a safe place.
But the brutality of this timing, inauguration and operation, is forcing me to remember the things more important than presidencies and politics. Family, the human spirit, the existence of goodness in our world and love itself, these are not susceptible to the vagaries of a deceived electorate or a megalomaniacal demagogue. And these things matter more.
I wish us all good luck and safe passage through the next four years, the next stage of world reality. And I wish us all an awareness and gratitude for the things that matter more than fear.
2017 will only be as good as the effort we put into it. Instead of spending time being afraid and criticizing, how about we smile – the politicians couldn’t make things work – what if the businessman’s method does?
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I like it! It’s too easy to give the politicians more credit and influence than they really have. There are more important things than Trump’s Scandal of the Hour.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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Yup…the politicians have screwed things up. Let’s see…high unemployment…economy in the tank…millions without healthcare….
Oh…wait…that was 8 years ago….
Never mind….
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Memory or prophecy? Sigh. But we’ll be there to pull in the right direction, whenever we make the chance.
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Prayers for your mother for a successful surgery and a steady recovery!
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Thank you Dianne!
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Here’s hoping that surgery goes entirely according to plan; I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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Thank you Kerry. The surgery itself went smoothly, though not with the outcome we’d hoped for. Thank you for your thoughts.
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I’m very sorry to hear that (the part about the outcome). Very sorry indeed.
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A few days late…but I hope all went well for your mother
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Thank you Jack, I appreciate that.
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