Thursday, November 10, 2016

Dusting things off

The past few days have been very challenging. Challenging to think through myself, challenging to explain to my kids, and challenging to stay motivated to rally behind a country that voted someone into office who has behaved in a way that, had I done so, would have been (fairly) fired at my office. Should I have seen my children behave that way, I would have punished them greatly & questioned myself as a parent. Someone who has vocalized a perspective and cultural values that I find deeply unsettling. As a woman. As a mother raising minority children. As a friend & lover of equal rights for everyone in this country, including those who do not look like me, share my gender, my faith or my sexual orientation.

So, I'm left asking myself about next steps, and how we heal. We are all sick of this election cycle, and now it's over. Thank God for that. We are all entitled to our voices, and votes.

I will do more to stand up for the values I care about. I will donate more money &, more importantly, more of my time to these issues. And, I will continue to try & better understand the voices that I'm currently not hearing in my life. Because, there are good people on all sides of these issues.



12 comments:

  1. Yes, hugs to you and your family. I do believe people like you will stand up to him :)

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    1. We will continue to fight for continued equality for everyone in this country. It's already shaping up to be a rough start.

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  2. Well said. I feel very much as you do.

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    1. The country is clearly very divided. Let's hope we can bring everyone together again.

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  3. I live in Australia and we can't believe how this has played out either. Even my 14yo daughter is confused that someone that says and does the things that Trump does can now be in charge. My hope is that the next 4 years aren't as bad as the last 18 months or so.

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    1. There's a great deal of confusion out there, for sure.

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  4. I can only hope he is better than I think he will be.

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  5. Hmmm...we have a secure email system at work and if I used my own email, I would be fired, too. We don't have classified information at my work but we do have clients' information. I would certainly be fired for doing that. Maybe Trump would not have been elected had the Democrats not cheated everybody and forced Hillary as the nominee.

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    1. You are entitled to your perspective, and I respect that. I see that you choose not to address the issues I raised. Do you also see those as challenges, or just the emails?

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  6. We can hold hope that there are enough checks and balances in place. It's the insanity of the whole election cycle that was wearing and now the real issues need attention.

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    1. Totally agree. We need to move forward together, and it's going to be really challenging.

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