It’s World Kindness Day and we’re warming up after a four-day snowstorm this past weekend here in Colorado Springs that eerily coincided with a tumultuous presidential election. The snow is almost gone. In my little world, the painful divisions of 2016 has once again ramped up. Family members are polarized to opposite sides of the political aisle. It’s a significantly painful division. If you don’t want to read my two cents. Feel free to scroll on, this is my space and I say want I want.

I don’t know if Kamala Harris would have been the ideal alternative, but she would have been the lesser evil, by far, to the president we have ended up with. Again.

Look, I’m a woman of a certain age. My childbearing years are behind me, yet I have reason to be concerned for not only myself, but for every U.S. female everywhere. Every U.S. citizen. I have friends that don’t fit “gender norms”. I have friends with kids who don’t fit “gender norms” and if you don’t think I won’t speak out for them, you are mistaken. I’ve read Project 2025. If you haven’t, if the nine hundred and twenty pages is too much for you, well then, it’s clear where your priorities lie and wow, good luck to future blindsided you.

I have been diagnosed with multiple chronic illnesses. I have real reason for anxiety around pre-existing conditions and health insurance. Because my husband and I had to get our insurance from the marketplace this year I got a good look at how this could kill me. There are marked differences in pricing my part of the policy as opposed to my husband’s. He is healthy for the most part and only on one medication. I’m on a number of medications that make a feeble attempt at controlling the symptoms of the chronic illnesses I deal with. I’m financially penalized as if I developed these illnesses on purpose. So yeah. I’m concerned about who will occupy the White House.

I get platitudes from family members saying that the incoming Oval Office occupant “tends to exaggerate” or “pops off at the mouth sometimes” or “he doesn’t agree with Project2025 and he’s not really going to put it into action” WTAF?! We can already see that he’s working towards exactly that. I mean,

We have just elected a convicted felon to the highest office in the nation and that’s the best I can say about him. Those who voted for him, I’m baffled at how they were sucked in. He won this election with money and slick, unsubstantial but expensive, commercial culture campaigning. Most the the claims of which were just straight up false (ya know, just exaggerated a little). I mean, Pete Hegseth as defense secretary? Are you kidding me??? It’s just one example of the ridiculousness forming the future circus of our national government. He gave them the old razzle-dazzle and half the nation totally fell for it.

So, here’s my game plan. I will continue to be kind. I will continue to support those that will become more vulnerable than they already are wherever and however I can. I will continue to practice spirituality according to my own beliefs. I will continue to love. I will continue to be my own advocate in managing multiple chronic illnesses and my overall health. I will continue supporting writers and artists. I will continue writing. I will continue creating. I will continue to maintain the big fucking fence that allows my heart to remain open. I can’t guarantee I’ll always be kind or compassionate because sometimes circumstances call for something else, but I will continue with my game plan.

I. Will. Continue.

How about you?