In a democracy the only true public authority comes from the public or “the people”. This nation gave itself a gift yesterday and spoke with roar of protest and support for our democracy. This morning this writer celebrates not the defeat of the Republican Party, but the victory of a nation demanding to be finally and again, the United States of America. This is where I was born and hope to die so I feel like some kind of home coming has occurred. I suspect the entire world is having a moment to reconsider our demise.

This is an unanticipated stroke of good fortune offering us a chance to start again, but as we will see in a month or so, our joy today is tomorrow’s hard work. There is a lot of healing work that needs to be done and we have a President waiting for instructions. How we deliver those instructions and how he recieves them is very important. We have given ourselves such a great opportunity to listen to our better angels.

Modest Suggestion for Good

Celebrate this day. Feel that tentative string of relief and joy thread through blood and bones for tomorrow there will be much delicate work to do. Lets recreate ourselves. That will be good.