Thank You Baby Jesus and Moses!

  I truly want to thank everyone, light a candle for Mother Mary's cousin Saul, send prayers out into the universe, for President Obama being elected for a second term.
One of my friends called him the pro-abortion president. I wanted to tell her it is called Pro Choice, and that we hope no one ever needs an abortion, but if they do, the people of America will help them. Maybe instead of hating, the forty some odd percentage of people who voted differently than I could go volunteer at a Planned Parenthood facility. Another friend of mine made a list of things that disgruntled republicans could do, to take their mind off the hard loss. Mags wrote that all of us should volunteer to help a teen in trouble, work at a woman's shelter, soup kitchen, look at your elderly parents and thank whomever that they will have affordable health care. I wanted to add, Hospice is always in need of people, watching a family say good-bye to a loved one dying teaches us much. Support small business in your community. To whom much is given, we have to give back. Of course that is the liberal speaking in me.

We do, as a country, have much work ahead, but we always do. You see, we are young and growing. The country is becoming so much more diverse. The demographics have changed. We are not a "Mad Men" TV show anymore, we are a "Modern Family."

Some of you know that my sweet Ward, age 25, died over five years ago. In his lifetime, due to mental illness, he was on many medications. Those medicines made his life normal, at a high cost. You see he stopped taking all of those meds when he was no longer on our insurance plan. He could never afford them, so he stopped. One pill was 800 dollars a month, Ward took four or five different pills a day. He no longer went to the Shrink, because that was 250 dollars an hour. One July morning we found him dead of an apparent accidental drug overdose. Street drugs, they cost 15 dollars. He came off of our insurance the day he graduated college. Now you can keep your children on your policy until 26, thanks to our president. In my heart I wish, that I had been able to help Ward for a little longer, maybe if I had a few more years to keep him safe and functioning, you see affordable health care is personal to me. Yes, to your questions, we took out many loans to help him, tried to get him in many programs that would not take him, because of his insurance. Yes, you see, he did work. Now even his precondition of Autistic, Social Anxiety disorder, Schizophrenia/ Bi polar problems would be covered. He was lucky to live in a time when medication made his life awesome, and unlucky that was taken away from him.

This election has made huge divides between people, both sides can argue their point. I have no fight left in me. I believe in my party and I have hope for the Republican party. Our country needs both parties, we have to work together.

I am a child from the 60's, I believe in love.

I also believe in hard work, it will take all of us.