Day of Arcane Light

 

Late post, but I was without power for part of this evening. A tree limb fell, apropos to nothing - no storm, no rain, no winds - about a block away and took out an overhead power line. We made it through Hurricane Helene without a power loss, but then this branch randomly falls on a placid autumn evening. Go figure. 

Despite what the polls say, I believe Harris is going to win the election and win by a lot. That's a gut reaction - I have no secret data or access to arcane information. I'm just a patriotic American - I love my country - and can't believe that a majority of Americans would willingly vote for a person so clearly in mental and spiritual decline and with such obviously ill intent for the country. And then I see the size and enthusiasm of the crowds at Harris' rallies. I know we all live in bubbles, myself included, and that many of the Cheetos' supporters say the same thing about their candidate for much the same reasons, but that's still my gut feeling. 

Plus, I still struggle to accept how catastrophically harmful another Trump term would be for the country, for the world. I can't accept that he might win for sort of the same reason that I don't think an asteroid is going to collide with the Earth any time soon, or that the Yellowstone caldera might erupt or the Cascadia subduction zone will swallow up the Pacific Northwest - seismic calamities are so rare that one can safely assume the chances are so remote that the probability of occurrence in our lifetime is close to zero. Again, the other side says much the same thing, but their ignorance doesn't affect my gut feeling.