I lost count of the times I read words like sad, devastated, or horrified today. None of my online or offline friends was happy or enthusiastic about the right turn chosen by the majority. Darkness descended upon us even before his first day in the White House.
I wonder how your day was.
Mine could have been more effective, even though I felt busy answering messages. But even after all the writing and reading, I still can't understand why it is so difficult for most Americans to see who of the two candidates would be an excellent president and who is, by all standards, utterly unfit for the job.
In other words, would the choice be hard to make if both would show up for a job interview in your office? If you would stumble in the street and break your leg, who would you prefer to be the first to pass by? The one who stops and would take care of you or the one who pretends not to see you?
Many journalists had no problem coming up with convincing analyses of why Kamala Harris lost and what she should have done differently. But if it's all so easy to explain, why didn't they say so a couple of days ago?
The bottom line is that we have to accept that most US voters believe they are better off -and that their children's future lies in safer hands- when he is running the country.
As a thought experiment, imagine she would have stuffed her bathroom full of stolen top secret files, would have been a convicted felon, would have sexually assaulted men, would lie, cheat, and threaten with violence. I know it's hard to imagine but try for a moment. Would that make her a better candidate? Would that draw the voters away from him? We will never know, but I believe it doesn't work that way. If she had as much as an unpaid parking ticket, she would get in trouble; the media and the voters would not accept it.
I'll stop there. You will have read enough today about the events of the past 24 hours. So, instead of writing an entire newsletter this evening (okay, I'm still typing one late at night), I found some draft videos of two days I walked the Camino last year. But there was no time or required wifi to produce these in Spain, and I forgot that I still had these draft versions. I finished them this evening, and while working on them, I relived the third and fourth day of walking the Camino from the French Pyrenees to Santiago the Compostela. Day 3 was when I left the mountains behind me and followed a quiet river through a green landscape to the wonderful city of Pamplona. The Day 4 video is from the next day when I left Pamplona and walked to Puente la Reina.
These short videos are not top-quality productions, and I still need to cut out some photos that don't belong there, but they're just for those among you who feel like taking a break from the news and spending a few minutes drifting away to Spain in the summer, far away from politics and daily worries. Enjoy!
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