It Is Almost Over

The perfect way to keep my mind off what is about to happen tomorrow was to celebrate the birthday of my friend Nancy. A group of wonderful friends gathered at the restaurant Elements invited my Nancy’s sister Sally. Not one word was spoken about the national exhaustion of the most divisive campaign in my lifetime. Just fun as birthdays should be.
It was just nice to celebrate Nancy. I was so happy that she made it to this birthday because just two months ago it was her goal to make her birthday. Not that she had any reason to think she wasn’t going to live to see her double nickel, just felt weighed down. I told her that day, two months ago, that she needed to set a bigger goal.
I love birthdays now at this age because it is a chance to be frivolous and light hearted. With all the arguing in the world we need more birthdays. We need more friends just having fun. We need more excuses to eat cake!  
For tomorrow reality it going to hit us square in the face. Then we need the great coming together to begin. No more fighting. We are one America and we need to find common ground to be the great country we are. But today we eat cake.