I Voted for Hope

Onward, by all means.

I voted today, and hope you did (or will), too. It’s a good feeling—to vote your heart and head. To vote for decency, to be heard, to believe change for the better is possible.

Before I voted, we walked in the woods, as we do every morning. Windswept snow flurries stopped as we began. The sun pushed through the clouds and carried a sheet of blue along. It looked like hope.

There was just a coating of snow, but we were spoiled to make the first tracks across it—that is if you don’t count those that belonged to fox and coyotes, chipmunks, fisher cats, a rabbit, several deer, and one good-sized black bear looking for the last of the food before he slumbers the winter away.