The darkness in the light

| 12:01 pm EST November 8, 2024
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I’ll never forget that when this writer was a child, she spotted an exquisite doll on display at a store. This doll was a Costa Rican girl. How beautiful she was! All these years later, I still remember her tiger eyes.

That got me thinking; as a young child, I was interested in other countries and lifestyles: Greece, Egypt, and Cambodia. What would it be like to spread my wings, fly to these places, and live among their people?

Perhaps, had there been time machines, my girlhood self would have fallen through them. I would have witnessed the Great Library of Alexandria burned to the ground while its people wept bitter tears.

Perhaps I’d have seen the bitter Trojan battle and witnessed the burning embers of surrender as so many lay strewn on the ground. Or perhaps had I traveled to Cambodia, I’d have fallen into enemy hands, the hands of the Khmer Rouge, who launched a coup and captured the Cambodian Capital, leaving death, destruction, and misery behind.

My point is that many countries have endured the very hardest of times, and yes, they have also seen, among the darkness, an eventual light, a path back to sunlight. It won’t be easy for us, but I still have faith that we will prevail. We will also have a bit of revenge.

Revenge is a dish best-served cold, and those who voted for Donald Trump will be very cold for a while. A good example is the “uncommitted” voters in Michigan. How self-righteous they sound as they brag about “punishing” the Democratic party, whom they deem as to hard on Gaza.

Well, now they have a new commander and chief. How will HE handle the war raging so far from us? If it’s as I expect, these uncommitted voters might come to regret being uncommitted.

And Latino men? The GOP spent years scaring them into submission on Spanish radio. Evoking the word “socialism,” so Cubans would rear their backs in horror, not understanding that their real enemy were the ones to whom they listened.

Sometimes, hard lessons must be learned. I do not envy these people who made the wrong decision, trusted too quickly, and could not see what was right in front of them. But we could. And we will, as so many did before us in so many different cultures and countries, fight for a new beginning.