Post Obama

We O-people are indeed glad and heartened by the results of the election.  On the actual day, I was driving back from Providence, exhorting, "America, do the right thing!"  And it did.  Lovely.  As Ken said last weekend in New York City, "I look around and think, everyone I see is a member of the family."  We are one.  This election has turned cynical, hardened liberals into sentimental patriots and it feels pretty good.  

We are in the dog days of November, gray, not yet really cold; but what is ahead is obvious.  With the time change, it is dark by 5:00 and my walk home is via Main Street, brandishing my flash light on the streets of my neighborhood.  But it is light enough in the morning for me to do my walk or run at home, instead of going over to the Wellness Center on campus.  I expect that by Thanksgiving week, I will be back there, however.  

We were in New York last weekend, in a New York arts/culture trifecta:  Radio City Music Hall and the Christmas Spectacular; Joe's Pub and a monologist; and separate movies for separate movie tastes.  Radio City was pretty spectacular, if emphatically Christian and heterosexual.  The 3-D - wowie.  Mike Daisy, the monologist, was energetic and funny/depressing.  His performance was titled "If You See Something, Say Something."  As to movies, I saw "Rachel Getting Married" and Ken saw "Soul Men."  Perfect for both of us.  It rained like mad on Saturday and, as I was thoughtless and even stupid, I managed to ruin my cell phone.  So a new phone for me.  This weekend, we are there again to see Columbia play Cornell in football and another play at The Public.  

The news from the New York budget is pretty dire.  We have been in New York during good times and I am worried about New York City, and about my sweet college.  I keep asking people how long they think it will last and the consensus seems to be 2-3 years.  Timing is everything in life.

Stay warm.