We both cried, my mom and I, through both the speeches. The first time, ever, we can say Madam Vice President. The first time in four years the leader of our country speaks calmly, with empathy, and for all of us.
So we drank wine and snacked on crackers, cheese, and snap peas, and then held our hands over our mouths or grabbed tissues and cried together.
I know a lot of us did last night. Four years of horror and then a win. A good win. An important win. And my emotions have been so tangled up and twisted all week and I know we wake up tomorrow in the same America as today and we have so much hard, impossible-looking work to do to change the very character of our country — but we needed this win. I was so, so afraid we weren’t going to get it.
I feel cried out today after holding it all so close to the surface this last week and I stay off social media and the news and just be in my home (I’m home for the first time in a week and a half) and rest and breathe that fresh Door County air on a walk with my mom and cuddle with cats and read my stories and try to let it sink in.
With Love,
Natalie