lavendertook

Tank you, hon. Well this really isn't optimism and faith--I don't have those. It's just hope without expecting much. I know, because when I was younger I was an optimist. And when I was depressed I tended toward pessimism. Now I got hope back, and I'm operating on hope--which is working well for me. So what resulted today was more than I expected though less than I had hoped, which is pretty good--as Garrison Keillor would put it. (-: What was more than I expected was that Sen. Boxer made a stand for the senate and caused them all to go into briefing; what is less than I hoped is that they would cause such a delay that the media couldn't ignore the historic quality of the moment and had to focus on it --we didn't get that. That door of opportunity did close today, but Boxer's foot in it does give some purchase still. So it's a wait and see still.