So sad, and so angry

[jenniferinclyde]

I owe you all a catch up post...with things like - my mom is miraculously cancer free, what's going on in life blah blah blah. Maybe I'll actually do that - maybe I'll just go forward. I think I need a place again. Whether anyone is reading it or not

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[knzbound]

{{{hugs}}} Ugh. This election has been so hard. All the lead-up and, most especially, THE RESULT. I was seriously distraught on Wed. Cried telling my kids Trump won, cried through Hillary's gracious concession speech. Just miserable. I somehow can't step away from FB, and I need to. I don't really have Trumpers on there. Unfollowed two people the other day, friends from high school, who didn't put so much on their walls as just like stuff that I don't want to see. I don't interact with them anyway, so NBD. I *just* talked to my dad, and we kind of skirted around the issue. He was not happy with either candidate, does not like Trump, but I am still not sure if he voted for him. And honestly, I don't want to know. I am in the camp of if you did, I think less of you, line in sand. There is no excusing it, as far as I am concerned. I felt fortunate that I didn't really have to interact with anyone other than my kids on Wed. I went for a lovely trail run that cleared my head...for about an hour, and that helped. And yesterday, I occupied myself cooking a meal for the mom of a friend of Sylvie's who just started chemo--I was already scheduled to do that, but I was happy to be purposely doing some act of kindness for another person...humanity. I think that's where it's at, you know? I would like to get involved in the 2018 senate campaigns, working to anti-gun, anti-violence initiatives. Hoping maybe this outcome will motivate me to get to work for literacy, helping women in some way.

Anyway. I am glad to see your post. Love from my Marin bubble. (This is perhaps one of the disturbing things. To be in this bubble of progressive liberalism and realize how very little I have in common with the rest of the country, incl. where I am from.)

And so happy to hear of your mother's good health.

Can you believe we've been friends for OVER 14 years? Would love to hear more about what's up in your life. (I haven't been posting as much either, but I still post. So many many people have stopped LJing that it can be hard to motivate to share, yk?) Peace to you.