A convalescence (Hummer)
I will confess that for the past eight years I have felt as if there were a dark force field at the center of my psyche; I have interpreted it variously, and am even medicated in response to it. When I woke up this morning, having witnessed Obama’s masterful victory, it was gone. My body, embedded in the larger body of humanity, was responding to an illness of massive proportion. Today, a convalescence has begun. But it has only begun. It is still nascent, still fragile, still uncertain.
Labels: quote
