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Upbeat or Skeptical, We’re Preparing for the Election With Sweet Treats for Stamina

With memories of 2016 still fresh, and the results that may take a week, working up some positivity for this election will take some effort and lots of patience

Cindy Eastman and Angelo FarengabyCindy Eastman and Angelo Farenga
Upbeat or Skeptical, We’re Preparing for the Election With Sweet Treats for Stamina

Ready for election night. Photo: Cindy Eastman

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In a reversal of roles at our house, Angelo has become uncharacteristically upbeat about the outcome of the upcoming election and I have taken on the role of cynic. It’s more like we switched personalities. He, who rarely tunes in to televised debates or gets involved in fundraising activities, is now glued to his phone, excitedly watching the polls that show Joe Biden a winner. Angelo explains it as his becoming more present-oriented; less prone to having his emotions hold sway over his moods as a result of past beliefs and mindsets. He can still engage in such past processes on occasion, but now more than in the past can sometimes catch himself and for no “reason” at all choose to instead feel content with reality exactly the way it presents itself.

Hillary Clinton, confident she would win. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Sure. I am not so upbeat. I am skeptical since those same polls in 2016 assured me of a Clinton win. Nobody in their right mind could imagine a Trump presidency and I don’t think anyone ever conceived that it would devolve into a narcissistic dumpster fire that would end–dramatically–with a rampant virus that brought the US the sad acclaim of being the world’s top outbreak hotspot in a global pandemic.

As soon as he was elected, the GOP jumped happily on Trump’s wagon and, with Mitch McConnell in the driver’s seat, they began shutting down rights and protections for people and for the earth. The Supreme Court was molded to include a questionable conservative ninth member in Amy Coney Barrett; health care and reproductive rights are next on the chopping block.

None of this seems to be bothering Angelo right now. Not that he isn’t concerned about people’s rights and protecting the earth–far from it; helping people is his job. It’s just that he’s so positive about a Biden win. (He is hedging his bet…he cleared his appointment calendar for Wednesday.) He keeps asking me, “What should we have for dinner on Tuesday?” I keep telling him, “We have wine, don’t we?”

I guess what has me so uncharacteristically morose is my tendency to absorb everyone else’s problems combined with an unfortunate naïveté about human behavior. I just can’t get over the single-issue voter thing. Many people are willing to elect Trump again over abortion and I don’t get how those same people–many of whom I know personally–can turn a blind eye to the rest of the mayhem he causes. And he does cause it; look how many people have died from a virus he uses as a campaign tool.

Joe Biden with Kamala Harris . (Image from YouTube)

Meanwhile, Angelo and I have both voted already. Another turnabout; although he usually votes–mostly national, often Italian and sometimes local–he didn’t always make it to the polls on Election day. And now he wants to prepare for Election night with a special menu and treats. The other day, Angelo giddily went out on a solo errand to buy supplies for individual Election Night care packages. Treats for special occasions is my thing! How’s that for role reversal? Maybe since human behavior is Angelo’s bailiwick, I should follow his lead?

I should try to feel less responsible for the worrisome course of my external community and attend to my individual body/mind/spirit community to start. I think St. Francis and Gandhi both had something to say about being the change you want to see in the world.

Working up some positivity for this election will take some effort, and it will be essential to access it in the coming months. It could be days before we know the outcome. Angelo may have to go out for more treats.

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Cindy Eastman and Angelo Farenga

Cindy Eastman and Angelo Farenga

Born in Connecticut and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Cindy Eastman holds a Master’s degree in Education.  She has taught writing classes to students between the ages of 5 and 85 and is the creator of the “Day of Her Own” women’s writing retreat.  Cindy also works with families going through divorce as a supervised visit facilitator. Her first book, a collection of essays titled Flip-Flops After 50: And Other Thoughts On Aging I Remembered to Write Down, won the 2015 IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award for Humor. She can be found in Connecticut, Maine or Italy at various times of the year and at cindyeastman.com.  Angelo Farenga is a Humanistic Psychotherapist with a private practice in Northwest Connecticut. He holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University, New England. His interests in Spirituality and Self Actualization are combined with training in EMDR and IMAGO Relationship Therapy to help clients discover more authentic connections and healthy adaptations to the demands of modern life and social adjustment. Angelo was born and raised in Muro Lucano, one of the many small hill towns of Basilicata, Italy. He is fluent in Italian, loves good food, a wide range of music and spends his free time creating visual art and poetry. Born in Connecticut and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Cindy Eastman holds a Master’s degree in Education.  She has taught writing classes to students between the ages of 5 and 85 and is the creator of the “Day of Her Own” women’s writing retreat.  Cindy also works with families going through divorce as a supervised visit facilitator. Her first book, a collection of essays titled Flip-Flops After 50: And Other Thoughts On Aging I Remembered to Write Down, won the 2015 IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award for Humor. She can be found in Connecticut, Maine or Italy at various times of the year and at cindyeastman.com.  Angelo Farenga is a Humanistic Psychotherapist with a private practice in Northwest Connecticut. He holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University, New England. His interests in Spirituality and Self Actualization are combined with training in EMDR and IMAGO Relationship Therapy to help clients discover more authentic connections and healthy adaptations to the demands of modern life and social adjustment. Angelo was born and raised in Muro Lucano, one of the many small hill towns of Basilicata, Italy. He is fluent in Italian, loves good food, a wide range of music and spends his free time creating visual art and poetry.

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