Editor’s note: the following piece was written by Judith Gayle, a regular contributor for Planet Waves via her blog, Political Waves and the weekly subscriber edition: Planet Waves Astrology News. –RA
Dear Friend and Reader,
Pundits have it that the youth vote, no matter how often it is encouraged, is not dependable; well, times have changed. Look at this video clip from Penn State — similar is happening across this nation. In every state, turnout: young and old, black and white, gay and straight is huge; people are engaged. Apathy has disappeared. Politics is personal.
Over at the Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan is posting voter’s commentary and you can feel the high in their tone! You can add your own thoughts and a picture from your polling experience over at Planet Waves.
My son reports a wait to vote in the Pea Patch; this doesn’t happen in S. Missouri villages like ours. My daughter is working the polls today in S. California, and she just called to say the lines are into the street and have been since they opened; old timers she’s working with say they’ve never seen this before.
I’m not entirely rational today — it’s not that my brain isn’t working, it’s that my heart is too. It occurs to me that I’ve spent the last five years, day in, day out, cataloging Bush’s crimes and encouraging readers to keep the Vision.
FIVE YEARS. And all that energy is converging in this one moment in time; solidifying in a pregnant moment of bright-blooming change. My brain can’t hear itself for the loud thump of my heart.
I’m sure … make that absolutely sure … that we are all in that kind of haze at the moment; we do not truly realize how much Bushian PTSD we’ve suffered. We are hesitant to hope, wary of promises. We’ve lived in the twilight zone between bitter acceptance and a kind of fight-or-flight adrenal overload. If it is, indeed, over now — tomorrow we will wake up not knowing how to react.