Time Will Tell

 

I've fallen behind with blogging over the past few days - somehow Monday through Wednesday seemed to be totally dominated by the election "on the other side of the pond"; even though no one over here could do a thing about it but pray or keep fingers crossed. (Or whatever one prefers. Actually, here in Sweden we "hold our thumbs" rather than cross our fingers. Taking either of those two expressions literally would probably make simultaneous writing just about equally difficult, though!) Before actual results came in, there were of course endless speculations uttered. My impression is that most people over here were hoping for Kamala Harris to win, and deplore that she did not. But at least (in my opinion) the speech that she gave afterwards was a dignified contrast to the chaos that broke out four years ago when the loser did not accept the outcome of the democratic election...

Perhaps a quote from Alice in Wonderland may throw some light on it all? (Or not! LOL)

And the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’” — Alice in Wonderland, The Mock Turtle’s Story

Walking into town on Monday (and again today) I noticed this damaged tree in the park. I don't know what happened to it, but my guess is that a branch got broken off in the storm last week. I'm wondering whether they think the rest of the tree can still survive, though? I guess only the future can tell!