windthread

the road there wound through curving,  asxending, descending  winding through beautiful country,  homes all just Fine on many acres.  Further out from Olive Highway,  the beginning of large ranches and then,  the Olive ranches….HUGE sprawling holdings of miles of Olive trees.  Towering Gateways of rock and wrought iron.  One,  a sign for oil tasings on Saturday and Sundays.   and then this small PLAIN building.   In Polvadera, New Mexico,  i voted at the newish local elementary.  A zillion times more fancy than this.   California.  I live in California now.   I could say that,  over and over in any day…like a mantra….I live in California now and it doesn't have any more meaning than it does which is surreal, really,  but what was the same as in Polvadera New Mexico was the  smiling women who signed me in and directed me to the little cardboard privacy thingy,  gave me the big ballot and a pen.  Just the same as in Polvadera,  i filled in the ovals.   

today there was a good feeling of Exhale.  What was done was done.  All around this country.  All of us.  For our own reasons, did what we did.  Voted or didn't.  Marked this oval,  not that.   It's Done.  This part.  For now.   

Dana Milbank,  Washington Post op ed:  "  the laws of gravity have been restored. "  that sums it up,  i think.  With gravity, we can just GO.  and Go Well into the future of this country.  I feel ok.  like,  really,  just ok,  ok enough and committed to finding ways to hold those laws of gravity,  in place,  one person at a time.  i feel good.  I really feel good.