You know how authors aren’t supposed to have opinions and should just “shut up and write”?
Well, screw that tonight.
I stayed off the internet for the first half of the election reporting because I knew it’d drive me batty…but now that things are over, I am so so so so so so so glad Obama won, and that I got to watch one of the most epic and rousing speeches ever given. I’m totally crying over here because I feel like he means it. And now he’s got another four years.
No, not everything about Obama’s presidential term has been perfect. But he got more right than wrong, and I think another four years will give him time to get even more right. As a woman, I had no idea what I’d do if Romney won and all my rights began to erode away. I feel like our nation has been steered away from an iceberg of intolerance, anti-science sentiment, misogyny, corporate pandering, and general denial. I am so happy right now, and so incredibly relieved.
I was pretty excited about this whole Red Cross thing tomorrow because I wanted to help, you know? But I am even more fantastically stoked now. I feel like a lot of the time I’m the only one rowing the boat, like I’m the only one who cares. (Which I know isn’t always true, but sometimes it’s hard to see.) Now I feel like I’m rowing with a nation full of people who have the same priorities I do — health care, education, and inclusivity — and I honestly can’t wait to go do my part. I love all y’all. We can make things better. Let’s all keep rowing :D.