(#5768) I am getting my power back

      Yesterday I started to feel like I was over the worst of the gut punch from the election. This morning I am really feeling much better and a bit feisty to boot! Which is what I was hoping for. Less than two weeks from the devastating news and I am almost back to normal. I like the rebound time as I wasn't sure if a rebound would even occur. Yet here I am feeling like fighting for our rights and freedoms with some power. Not my full power but a reserve of it that makes me smile, if only a little. Where I go with my new injection of strength is still undetermined but know this it will not align in any way with those forces that just crushed my soul.
     Apart from reassessing my agenda and how that looks, I will carry some known battles forward. Helping Ukraine in anyway possible will remain. Fighting for our democracy without a doubt will always be my number one mission in life. Nothing about this coming time is of a personal wishlist on my part it is all about how I can contribute to our collective desire to instill equality, liberty, freedom, justice, and fairness back into our social order. There is no time for me to think about what I personally would want in what is left of my life because I don't have a second to waste on my own selfishness. I get by well enough and somewhat better than those who are less fortunate, so no ego here.
     All of this is a new type of experience for me in that I hadn't anticipated being even more a stalwart defender of democracy. I thought, rightly so, that a new generation of determined democracy defenders would step up and continue our fight to improve our society. Yet, it seems that is not the case and more so I am left to improve myself to be even stronger in order to finally defeat the forces of hatred and ego! I needed some time to replenish my reserves and regrow a new resolve to establish who I am and what I must become to fulfill my hopes and dreams for our democracy. What I hope for is a fighting chance to survive the next four years and work to build a groundswell that will not be overcome by deception and greed for power!