No Place for Politics...

Sean and I very are lucky to have a family and friends who represent a diverse range of personalities and lifestyles and political opinions, and partly because of this, I decided when I started this blog not to venture into the dangerous waters of the current political scene. After all, this space isn't really intended to be just a venting vehicle for me, however much it may appear to be...

However... it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to NOT comment on recent and impending events! Putting aside my own ideologies informed by my experiences growing up in a rather liberal environment and studying what I did in school, I now have a totally fresh perspective based almost entirely on being an expectant mom with concerns for what my kids will inheret when it comes to our economy, the environment, the perception of America by the rest of the world, our basic human rights...the list goes on and on (and so did that sentance!). While I am so thrilled to be able to provide a life for our son where I will likely not have to work, where we can afford a lovely home and lots of luxuries, where he is surrounded by friends and family and is healthy and physically safe, still I'm very afraid of the things that are happening just outside our little comfortable bubble.

The upcoming election will determine so much about the world that our son will come to know, in, at the very least, his early years. Sean is so concerned about the outcome that he registered to vote for the first time in order to cast a ballot in the primaries, and we'll most certainly be at the polls first thing in November. I just hope that the growing numbers of people who are disgusted with the direction this country is headed, both here and afar, turn out to vote that day too. Of course, they did for the last two elections and look what happened anyway.