How is everyone doing out there?
My mom was sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette and looking very distraught. Ronald Reagan had just defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Presidential Election.
I was a freshman in high school dealing with all the bullshit that a fourteen year old already has in life.
Not knowing I was about to deal with another problem.
My mother was under the impression that I will be drafted and sent to war because of the looming Ronald Reagan Presidency. Ronald Reagan was going to send her baby boy off to iran in four years.
My eighteenth birthday came and went. I registered for the draft. Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term. A term that I can proudly say I voted for. That second term ended and I never was drafted and sent off to war.
Reagan came and went.
Clinton came and went.
Both the Bush’s came and went.
Obama came and went.
The one thing that made it through all of these mediocre presidential terms is America…
….and me and you
Everything is going to be alright. We live during a footnote in history. So did our parents and so did their parents.
There will always be a sunrise and sunset time on the bottom left hand side of the Morning Chalkboard.
In fact there has been 16,074 sunrises and sunsets since that day my mom was hysterical during my freshman year.
The one consistent thing throughout our entire life has been each other. We have had each other during all of these horseshit presidencies and we will continue to have each other for the next four years.
When I get up in the morning, the sky is at its darkest point. Especially this week with a very faint moon wisping across it.
The stars shine bright across the tenebrous skies. The dim of the Riverside streetlights give way to the calming glitter sprinkled above my life.
If my mom would have wiped her tears and finished her cigarette in the backyard back in 1980, she would have seen those same stars.
Good things are all around no matter who the President of the United States is.
Aw shucks…. The smile is on the sun and today will be full of astonishment
