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From The Bitter Southerner

As Election Day Looms

 

Honestly.

I'm just not doing all that well.

Vicki Lane posted this at her blog and it spoke to me  -

May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter, so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within.

                                                             Br. David Steindl-Rast

I am feeling far from calm, and am seeking ways in which to feel grounded.

I'm feeling more like this normally very strong woman today -

(Trying to find the name of the artist - please let me know)

Truth be told, even having not smoked since 2008 I am craving, for the first time, a Virginia Slims cigarette 22 miles long.  Instead of caving into the craving, I'm spending a lot of time sporadically and enthusiastically shouting Fuck Donald Trump.

So.  Until my favorite football team plays this evening, I'm busying myself about the house making a pot of spaghetti.

And because I believe in self-care, I'm settling in with flowers, candy, coffee, and books.

Take care of yourselves, my friends.

And if you haven't already - Go Vote!  

And Vote Blue!

A Christmas Wish

 

Donald helped me bring in a few Christmas boxes from the storage building today.

Yes, I know, it's a little early.

And, truth be told, our Christmas decorating has dwindled in recent years.

But.

If our Christmas wish comes true this year, I intend to deck these halls like my name is Cindy-Lou Who,  the oh so happy happy little girl from Whoville in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” 

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If you haven't voted yet, go do it!

And Vote Blue!!!

Hard Days

 

Yes, these are hard days.  

We're witnessing the meanest, the ugliest, most hateful of men making a grab for our country for purely selfish self-serving damning reasons - for himself only.  

Dividing us with lies and hatred.  

It's impossible for me to fully grasp that there are people who still, after all the horrible things he continues to spew, the unbelievably scary things he promises to do, continue to support him. 

How?  

How can that be?  

I don't think I ever truly believed in pure evil before this man, but now I do. 

I do.  

I am so very thankful to have discovered a few women on-line that I lean on - more now than ever.  

Women I do not know personally, but seek out their wisdom, their humor, their goodness, to help me through hard days.  

Thanking Lisa Respers France , Connie Schultz , Anne Lamott , Heather Cox Richardson from the very bottom of my heart and the depths of my soul.

While that guy has spouted off ridiculous lies - easily proven to be lies IF his base would take it he time to just look a little beyond Fox - these women speak truths in ways that help me through these hard days.

Lies and vicious hatred.

That's all he's got.