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athelindTo my surprise, I find myself praying.
This is hard to admit, this year, this hour. Not only am I an avowed agnostic, but the Religious Right has been so soundly mocked for praying for the victory of their Chosen Candidate, as if they could command their God.
The last eight years, however...
It's not much of a prayer, as prayers go. It's just a single word, but one that keeps echoing in my soul as I read Barack Obama's speeches, or watch them on video, or see the words and images of those who have come together, having finally found someone that they can genuinely support, rather than a mere placeholder for their opposition.
It's a single word:
Please.
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ounceofreason said, It's Christmas Eve, except that there's a decent chance that Santa will burn my house down.
That single sentence perfectly encapsulates how I feel right now.
Please.
Perhaps I'm praying to Old Man Coyote. The last election, for me, moved "Coyote Loves Us" from a wry acknowledgment of Murphy's Law to something akin to an epiphany. It staggered me that Americans could put that man back into the Oval Office even by such a slim margin after seeing what he'd done to this country in that first term; what better evidence that our little corner of the universe was in the paws of a prankster, a practical joker with a penchant toward the scatological, who'd just pulled the national-if-not-global equivalent of a banana peel?
Nice one, Coyote. But just this once...
Please.
I'm going to work now, to while away the next several hours in the ever-so-important task of unpacking and inventorying this week's shipment of comic books and pop culture trinkets.
I welcome the distraction.
When I leave the back room refuge of the comics shop, perhaps there will be good news.
Perhaps I can allow myself to hope.
Please.
This is hard to admit, this year, this hour. Not only am I an avowed agnostic, but the Religious Right has been so soundly mocked for praying for the victory of their Chosen Candidate, as if they could command their God.
The last eight years, however...
It's not much of a prayer, as prayers go. It's just a single word, but one that keeps echoing in my soul as I read Barack Obama's speeches, or watch them on video, or see the words and images of those who have come together, having finally found someone that they can genuinely support, rather than a mere placeholder for their opposition.
It's a single word:
Please.
Last night,
ounceofreason said, It's Christmas Eve, except that there's a decent chance that Santa will burn my house down.That single sentence perfectly encapsulates how I feel right now.
Please.
Perhaps I'm praying to Old Man Coyote. The last election, for me, moved "Coyote Loves Us" from a wry acknowledgment of Murphy's Law to something akin to an epiphany. It staggered me that Americans could put that man back into the Oval Office even by such a slim margin after seeing what he'd done to this country in that first term; what better evidence that our little corner of the universe was in the paws of a prankster, a practical joker with a penchant toward the scatological, who'd just pulled the national-if-not-global equivalent of a banana peel?
Nice one, Coyote. But just this once...
Please.
I'm going to work now, to while away the next several hours in the ever-so-important task of unpacking and inventorying this week's shipment of comic books and pop culture trinkets.
I welcome the distraction.
When I leave the back room refuge of the comics shop, perhaps there will be good news.
Perhaps I can allow myself to hope.
Please.
