Pendulum Swinger

Not sure Blogger will let me embed a video, so here is a link.... but I thought it was appropriate to hear this song today. LOVED it the MOMENT I heard it.

Pendulum Swinger by Indigo Girls

I meet you for coffee
We get together periodically
I got a bad case I can't shake off of me
The fevered walking round wondering how it ought to be

You work in the system
You see possibilities and your glistening
Eyes show the hell you're gonna give 'em
When they back off the mic for once and give it to a woman

I dream like a mad one
Brutal fantasies I catch as catch can
I'm a psychic and a laywoman
I see love and I like to make it happen

What we get from your war walk
Ticker of the nation breaking down like a bad clock
I want the pendulum to swing again
So that all your mighty mandate wasjust spitting in the wind

It doesn't come by the bullwhip
It's not persuaded with your hands on your hips
Not the company of gunslingers
The epicenter love is the pendulum swinger
She is she is she is

It's fine about the old scroll
SanskritGnostic gospels the da vinci code a smash hit
Aren't we dying just to read it and relate
Too hard just to go by a blind faith

But they left out the sisters
Praying to a father god so long I really missed her
The goddess of benevolence
You should listen to your mama if youhave a lick of sense left

Pushed under by the main press,
buried under a code of dress
Relegated by the Vatican
But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again

If we're a drop in the bucket
With just enough science to keep from saying fuck it
Until the last drop of sun burns its sweet light
Plenty revolutions left until we get this thing right

Voting Day!

Last night recap in the ongoing saga that is my life: I stay late at work, don't get home til 7:30pm, turn around and do parent-teacher conferences at the kids' school til 8:30, come home, eat a late dinner (yummy mac & cheese casserole with onions and sausage and garlic that Chris made, which I love every time he makes it), take a shower and then flop in front of the TV to flip between football and Bridget Jones Diary. I know - I'm so fucking eclectic.

ANYWAY.

By 10pm, I was beat. And I mean like dragging my ass to bed beat. Damned clock-turning-back time-of-the-year.

But did that stop me from waking up at 5:30 this morning to go vote early before I came in? Nope! Now, did the time change this weekend have something to do with that? Yeah, it did. So what! It's voting day, bitches!

I *LOVE* to vote! I love the IDEA of voting! I love that we GET to vote in this country. It makes me feel so happy to have that RIGHT. That PRIVILEGE. I feel truly honored. Blessed. Completely fucking lucky.

I have never voted early before. I always go after work. This year I wanted to see what the polls were like at 7am. I dragged Chris with me (he always wants to vote together, it's like grocery shopping or something, it's cute) and we got to the polls about 10 minutes before 7am. There was already a fatmongous line queued up all the way inside the church. Yeah, we vote at a church. Isn't that funny? Church and State anyone? Ah, nah, don't worry - just come inside this BAPTIST church and put your vote in! (ok, i've never had any problems voting here, but i just thought it was funny when we moved that we found out we voted at a baptist church)

But oh, how it warmed my heart to see that line. I was ECSTATIC to wait in line with those folks. I LOVE not only voting myself, but hearing that other folks have voted, too. I *hate* hearing folks who don't vote. Why would you not vote? Isn't that what this country is all about? Get out and vote, people!

Anyway, we saw our neighbor in line and the line moved pretty quickly. We were in and out in an hour. I admit I did not vote for every single item on the ballot, as I'm not knowledgable about who should sit on the U of M board or the Wayne State Regent Board, and I know NAH-ZING about judges. But I voted for my rep, my senator, the 3 proposals, and of course Mr. Obama.

I practically skipped out of the precinct, my heart full of hope and just real love for this country. I really hope that people WANT change enough to go vote for it, and that Obama can surround himself with the support team he'll need to get us out of this hellhole. I think he can. Hell, I wouldn't have voted for him if I didn't think that.

What a historical moment. I am trying to soak that in. This is such a MOMENT. I can't wait to relish in all the coverage and what not tonight. Even though I've been sick of it the last few weeks, I'm now ready to reel it in and watch everything unfold. It's history, people!

GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!