The morning after

the last debate, and I'm exhausted. By it all. First off, remember when I made my new-school-year resolutions? Well, these seemingly endless debates are throwing bedtime way off, as are several other things we have going here. I feel like both of us are working 'round the clock and still aren't getting everything done.

When I look around blogland, and talk to people here on earth, too, so many of us seem to feel the same way. About these debates, and the election in general. People young and old have had enough, already. It's getting ugly and it's getting stressful for all of us to look, listen and process all the nonsense coming, frankly, from both sides.

Even the kids: last night when I quickly tucked them in for the last time because I had "to get back downstairs to watch the debate" said "AGAIN?"

I think our friend Bret said it best: "Couldn't we just have the election NOW?"

But I can't really blame it all on politics. My scatter-brainedness may just be tied into Fall. I have been driving around looking more at the trees and the bittersweet than the road. I seem to have several projects going at once now: surely just a result of the gather-store-nest mode that the season puts me in, naturally.

And, the weather has been spectacular. There have been lots of walks and outside play during times I might have spent more productively.

But it will all soon be over.

The election-and I am as hopeful as ever, even after last night. I am hopeful, are you?

The Fall-and then we will miss all of these fleeting pleasures.

So I will not wish it away. But I'm going to bed early tonight. I mean it.

Here's to hope, and a good night's sleep. Thanks for reading.
tt