I was so wrong about who would win the election (electoral votes, not the popular vote), but then I'm certainly not the only one.  Welcome to our dystopian reality.  Things are not going to be pretty for the foreseeable future, so I'll just leave you with some simple beauty: a photo of one of the blooms on our Bird of Paradise plant that I took on Saturday.

I'm gonna try to keep it simple for a while and look for love and beauty wherever and whenever I can find it.