'Grandma, this pie is soooo good!'

Finally it is OVER......and today is the day after the election.....we did survive!
Looking at today's newspaper there was one article that really 'spoke to my heart', written by Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer........
It was called....'Mend the hole in partisan hearts'....
Paraphrasing the article it boils down to this for me...(using some of Connie's words)
...."There are many lessons to be learned but the one I choose to focus on is , 'even the best among us struggle when things don't turn out the way we'd like.'
Take the presidential race.
Most of us were attached to a particular outcome, which means a lot of us are mighty disappointed right now.
Remembering the 2004 race, there were people who, for months after the election, insisted they still hadn't recovered from the outcome.
The election is behind us....it is time to look forward and....move on.
During the past few months, too many people told me they never, as in NOT ever, would speak to this relative or forgive that friend because of their choices for president.
They used phrases such as 'dead to me' and 'out of the will'.
Maybe you were one of those people.
It felt so right at the time, didn't it, that righteous anger?
It was hard discovering that people you love harbored no affection for your judgment.
And they weren't always nice about it, either.
Well, you'd show them!
Here we are, though, only hours after the election, and this forever thing already is starting to sound a little silly, don't you think?
For one thing, Thanksgiving is only, WHAT, three weeks away?
Maybe you're dug in.
All I ask is that you imagine that the person you're so sure you never want to see again....
..... just dropped dead.
Boom!
On the floor and in the ground.....
You (and I) would cry and cry and cry and wish that he or she would come back to life...this life!
So take down the yard sign and pick up the phone.
Say 'hi' to your friends, your family, your neighbor....
And go tell Grandma you LOVE her 'ambrosia' and tell Aunt Terry you can't wait to eat her sweet potato pie on Thanksgiving.
Despite our differences, we all just survived the longest presidential campaign in American history. The nasty ads are gone. So are the robo calls.
Take a deep breath, and savor the joy of....silence.
Remember....you still have your health and all of your teeth....and you still live in this great and wonderful place called.....
AMERICA....."