What's a World-Dweller to Do?

Friday, still in post-election recovery, and curiously feeling detached from the results. It's odd this mixture of extraordinary emotional investment in the process--being a total news junkie throughout the campaign, flipping across all the networks on Tuesday, surfing between the LA Times graphic and CNN's stats on Ohio--with a detached hovering, observing the playing out of power struggles between men (since they're mostly men). It's the combination of the letdown of not having your man win (and who did win), with knowing that it's part of a bigger chain of events not controlled by any human being, and that the eventual outcome will be so unlike what's transpiring down here that it's "all gonna be okay." It's sounds kind of goofy writing it down, and that's because it is--it's the greatest goofiest thing ever and it makes me start to get goofy just thinking about it.

Still, it's interesting negotiating this newbie believer trail with all of the other beliefs, assumptions, opinions about the world and how we are supposed to act in it. Most recent sermons have included something saying that as Christians we have an obligation to vote--part of the obeying your government/render unto Rome that which is Rome's clause. Of course, the Big Guy's rules trump all of that, and there is a lot of trumping going on.

More daily life stuff: library work has been incredibly hectic, with our major domestic vendor recovering from a systems migration, one of our critical staff's about to start a job in another unit, gifts workflows to manage, committees to serve on and report to.... Very draining. Tonight's solution? Pizza and beer with friends--a couple of the things that make being in the world not so bad at all.