I just want to live in a world where Kamala Harris is President.

This was my mantra over the weekend. IT HAS TO BE JOY THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION.

I know this post won’t reach many, but I’m putting it out there anyway. We need to keep our energy positive. Don’t click/share articles about polls, we know better. Don’t click/share the next 270 outrageous things that horrible excuse for a human is saying or doing. No one wants to see/hear that reprehensible vitriol.

Share and spread the good.

Here I am, tears in my eyes liking every single post talking about long lines and first time voters and volunteering and and and…THIS IS WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT!

I was using the blue heart to share my love, but I decided ❤️🤍💙 is really what it’s all about.

I was a Republican <RINO> for 20 years.

Around 2012, I had enough and went unaffiliated. In 2020, I registered Democrat to vote for Warren in the NY Primary and to serve as an election inspector. I’ve only been NOT A REPUBLICAN for 10 years.

It’s remarkable how much the political landscape has shifted in my lifetime, especially this last decade. This election is not about PARTY its about safeguarding America or surrendering it to a fascist regime. Vote accordingly. Full stop.

The other night after scrolling, soaking in the snoring sounds of Harley Boo and enjoying my Moonbeam on Pumpkins candle, I found myself reciting the *Hail Mary* overandoverandover. Apparently my long (long) ago lapsed inner Catholic needed a source of maternal comfort and grace sent out into the world…🙏🏻🌎

We are all in this together. And we are way, way, way, WAY BEYOND 2016.

“Women are not without electoral or political power.” – Justice Alito, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022).

Of course, this morning I woke up – on the verge of crying. All the tension, stress, hope, fear — all the energy of America. If I start – I won’t stop. A primal urge to just release it all.

And I know I’m not alone.

IT HAS TO BE JOY THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION.

I’ll be working the polls tomorrow up early at 5am — and home by 10pm. (Hopefully.) Praying the entire time.

I might bring my RBG coloring book and glitter gel pens to keep me occupied. Most important and consequential moment of my lifetime – And I’m looking forward to never saying that again.

And now time for a little inspiration for y’all this Election Eve.

  • Letters from an American: November 3, 2024 – Heather Cox Richardson – “In the 1860s the work of those people established freedom and democracy as the bedrock of the United States of America, but the structure itself remained unfinished. In the 1890s and then again in the 1930s, Americans had to fight to preserve democracy against those who would destroy it for their own greed and power. Each time, thanks to ordinary Americans, democracy won. Now it is our turn.”
  • Pete Buttigieg Convinces Undecided Voters to Back Harris in Key Swing State – My God this man is doing the Lord’s work because I made it through the 2nd “undecided voter” and I almost lost my shit. Trying to be positive -sharing in case this inspires others – he is ONPOINT. But my-oh-my the stakes are so high. I will never understand. Ever. And these aren’t even low-information & low-propensity voters.
  • Live in Boston with Doris Kearns Goodwin – Politics War Room
  • Must remember this feeling from 2020 MADAM VICE PRESIDENT. People are dancing in the streets. ALL OVER THE WORLD. Church bells are ringing. THIS IS WHAT A MILLION CHRISTMASES AND FIRST SNOWFALLS FEELS LIKE!
  • We got this. Keep going. BILLS fans – think Tyler Bass and that incredible FG.  Tied 27-27. 10 seconds left on the clock. Only needed 61 — could have probably made 70.  #LFG. ❤️🤍💙

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?

“Tomorrow we’ll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!”