Personal Musings Ahead of Super Tuesday
Yesterday my months of work on the Hillary campaign culminated in VIP status at a huge gathering in the arena at San Diego State University. And Hillary came through big time!
Of the most interest to the crowd at hand she outlined ambitious, forward-looking ideas to bring our education process into workability for the benefit of students, teachers, parents, the whole of the U.S. and indeed the entire world. And she was animated as she detailed the way her proposed healthcare plan would cover everyone, explained ways to tackle the complexities of the immigration system and voiced plans for green energy and resultant job creation.
Remarkably, she told us the reason she was being so specific is that if she holds the office of President she wants to be held accountable!
In my case she certainly wasn't preaching to the choir. Nevertheless, I was so buoyed by the end that I barely noticed the 100-some steps I had to ascend to exit the arena.
And now I continue with a few more tasks I've taken on in Hillary's San Diego campaign. But I have to admit to a level of anxiety I wish was not with me. It would be so much easier to be dead sure that Hillary will win enough delegates in Super Tuesday elections to lock up the nomination. Then we can get to work in earnest on the "big" election.
But in the absence of that certainty, I am engaging my own personal method for such situations. Refusing to consider negative outcomes. And cocooning myself within an environment that involves music. (I've spent a lot of my life listening to and writing about music.) Today that has meant being drawn into an entrancing 4-hour documentary on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Their 35+ years are the same span as Hillary's career. And oh how emotionally I recall Fleetwood Mac's "Can't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" as the theme at Bill's inauguration, when the world of possibilities lay ahead.
But today of all days I'm clinging to Tom Petty's "The Waiting." And it's helping me -- maybe it'll help you too.
Listen here ...
Positively,
Carolan
Of the most interest to the crowd at hand she outlined ambitious, forward-looking ideas to bring our education process into workability for the benefit of students, teachers, parents, the whole of the U.S. and indeed the entire world. And she was animated as she detailed the way her proposed healthcare plan would cover everyone, explained ways to tackle the complexities of the immigration system and voiced plans for green energy and resultant job creation.
Remarkably, she told us the reason she was being so specific is that if she holds the office of President she wants to be held accountable!
In my case she certainly wasn't preaching to the choir. Nevertheless, I was so buoyed by the end that I barely noticed the 100-some steps I had to ascend to exit the arena.
And now I continue with a few more tasks I've taken on in Hillary's San Diego campaign. But I have to admit to a level of anxiety I wish was not with me. It would be so much easier to be dead sure that Hillary will win enough delegates in Super Tuesday elections to lock up the nomination. Then we can get to work in earnest on the "big" election.
But in the absence of that certainty, I am engaging my own personal method for such situations. Refusing to consider negative outcomes. And cocooning myself within an environment that involves music. (I've spent a lot of my life listening to and writing about music.) Today that has meant being drawn into an entrancing 4-hour documentary on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Their 35+ years are the same span as Hillary's career. And oh how emotionally I recall Fleetwood Mac's "Can't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" as the theme at Bill's inauguration, when the world of possibilities lay ahead.
But today of all days I'm clinging to Tom Petty's "The Waiting." And it's helping me -- maybe it'll help you too.
Listen here ...
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Positively,
Carolan
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