a little further down the road

Well, now that the election is over, there really seems to be a new optimism in the air since our sensible guy, Obama, won!!
everybody seems to be thinking somewhat the same. We may have to wait for a while and work hard for a change,but it seems that the administration will make more sense now. And that is half the battle I think.
As Jon Stewart put it last night, "I feel like he speaks to my perceptual level" or something along that line. It's so comforting when you feel like there is actually someone in power who's listening and not just spouting sound bites.
Now that there is that, the earth feels so much firmer under the feet! Give the people what they want, oh, and that's another phenomenon, the collective motivation to vote was so incredible this time, given how results came in so fast, there seemed such a strong determination that it carried across the country! Jeez, I think I have a moistening around the eyes just thinking about it. I sincerely feel patriotic, now that things make sense.
I am also making connections about my story from the reading that I have been doing, and I am going to make a big effort to go to a writing group tommorow, run it by them. It's not hard to see why the writing advice given most often is to read,read,read, you pick up alot, consciously and unconsciously and from very unsuspected places. For example, the other day, I was reading "Waiting for the Barbarians" (J.M.Coetzee) and got a great sense description for my story. No spoilers here but it had such an impact. I knew instinctively that it was a clue to what I was getting at in my story,something akin to choppy kind of shots in a film. Also, I just really love Coetzee, just when I might be losing interest, he zaps me with a beautiful description or some suspense, he knows how to keep ya coming back for more. And I hope I can start to get subscribers to my blog soon, like to have some stirring dialogue about, art,life, art and life, and, of course, sublimation. I think I may have to research sublimation and put a few searching questions out there for people to respond to. And I promise to blog more often.