voting

As I walked away from casting my vote today, I was washed with an immense sadness for a country cracking around me in ways that I feel no one will be able to understand or comprehend for some time and that will continue to echo and chip away across the planet. This country has its problems and it always has- it began as a stolen land for those who were escaping a persecution. It started from a puritan base so the freedoms the founders spoke of are not the definition of the freedoms we stand by today.

The melting pot this country became is what I served for and what I stand for, but there’s never far a current that clashes against the vibrancy that lives in the heart and imagination of what this country could truly become. No matter how this election goes we are headed into harder times before brighter times. I hope my countrypeople shatter my darkest fears and we come out shiny, but that can’t be known til the time passes. Until then and after, just keep being good to each other – it’s the one thing we can always do.