you have one week left

spooky times for a spooooooky season

Here’s how I think about it: you have one week left to determine what matters to you in the next four years.

I don’t claim to know exactly what those years will look like, though I do have a guess. But if you live in the US, you know that the next four years will look different regardless of the outcome of next Tuesday.

So I’d get to figuring out what matters about those next four years. What do you wish would happen? Is it certain policies that you wish enacted? Is it a kind of life that you’ve been too afraid to live? What’re your values — in this moment, before we know how things will play out?

Because my sense is that we’re in a liminal space. A liminal space where we have to prepare for the best, even if we expect the worst. Personally, I am noticing little things in the culture that I am noting, that I am writing down — because if things can change, I want to be able to imagine something new.

Conversations around climate change and renewable energy, abortion and fertility, foreign policy and diplomacy, women’s rights and the gender binary, etc. have all changed in the past 8 years.

But that’s all they’ve been — conversations.

What could the reality look like?

I’m curious to hear what you’d say.