(#5767) Moving from devastation to resolve

      It is still early days but I am starting to feel the transition from my utter disappointment and the gut punch sensation that encompasses the election result. Don't get me wrong, there is still a dumbfoundedness that will likely never be transitioned from but the cruel and brutal despair that knows what is coming has a way forward. I spoke of this in the last few posts as time. With some amount of time all will come around for me to put this crass and depressing feeling behind not only me but so many like me. Understanding that there is hope in aligning ourselves together to buttress against the worst trump will throw at us is the first line of protection that we will continually add to.
     What has happened has already happened and that helps in making the case that losing any more time to despair is not what I need. Yet my whole being is hurt and needs some kind of salve. Time is usually that salve but too much time is not healthy when a healing needs to take place with some urgency. I am not the only one who is smarting hard from disappointment. The many of us who were with me and others to work to get our candidates elected are all in the same predicament. We must all quickly process our pain and then reforge it into a burning activism that will allow us an outlet to fight with a mettle much stronger than before.
     As I am transitioning to a more battle ready individual I am finding a calmness that I hadn't expected. Instead of being angry and frustrated I am quieter and more ready to be keen and aware. My stature has moved from being shrunk toward being tall. I am not a being who is accustomed to accepting defeat no matter how hard the loss. I am a fighter who has been deeply wounded but it seems the wound is healing faster than I had imagined and I am getting stronger than before. Even though one fight ended in a crushing defeat the next fight is looming. I have a mission to protect and expand and it is our democracy. Not a perfect democracy to this point but my fight is always toward perfecting it. That is my catalyst for picking myself off the floor, dusting myself off, and then charging back into our battle to have every individual person matter.