Day 4,217—Seeing the Moon—

 

      I was happy to see the election results last night and this morning. They make this difficult year a little better, and I am happy to see the blame for the shutdown be shifted to republicans even as they continue to lie and misrepresent the truth. There have been no other comparable shutdowns in recent history, except in the first Trump term, which was one of the many things anyone could have seen as a failure and a sign that someone is not good at negotiating or leading a party. Yet so many Americans didn’t remember this?

        I am going to try not to think about it anymore for the time being, but Trump’s refusal to pay for food stamps as he continues to demand that he and his friends deserve millions of dollars and government funds. He asked the DOJ for hundreds of millions of dollars, just because no legal precedent was offered. The only reason he needed was he felt wronged because someone held him accountable for his unlawful conduct. I know so many people like him. As soon as you call them out, they play the victim. Yet, they’re the first person to say someone else is shirking responsibility by playing the victim. The lack of self-awareness is maddening and yet somehow comical. It makes you wonder what some people won’t do. I continued to debate the best option for my last race of the year. I am now almost a hundred percent sure I want to do it, but deciding on the right one still has me in a pause. If I learned one thing after the OT, it is that I need to start practicing running trails at night more. I am just not very fast in the dark.     

I loved gazing at the moon as the light got caught in the clouds, diffused, and came rushing to the ground.