Fasten your seatbelts folks. The next four years are going to be a bumpy ride, but we have survived this before and we can survive it again. I let my wishful thinking get the better of me and was shocked last night when the returns rolled in. Now, I am forced to trade in a whole lot of hope for a lot of hurt.

Turning from one disaster to another, yesterday’s flooding still has us all reeling. Four people died due to the rain. Two in Saint Louis and two outstate. The outstate couple were both poll workers, driving to their polling assignment at the time. Anne made it to her assignment safely, but at the end of the day, she and her colleagues had their ballot drop-off spot moved due to local flooding. On a happier note, I checked this morning, and our basement is dry again.

The photo with this post is an example of naive art. We saw it in the Museum of Naive Art, in Zagreb. In this case, naive has a different meaning than normal. Here it is called naive, because the artists had not received any formal art school training. The sophistication and beauty of the art there bely the naive moniker.