Hi. Hey Wesley. How are you? How am I? I'm here looking at you. Happy for that.

Grateful for that. Sorry. So, um, is this still processing? And I'm Wesley and this is Jenna and um,

it's, uh, it's Wednesday after the election of, uh, Donald Day Trump.

And I have about 450,000 feelings and, um, yeah, I think it's kind of some, it's entirely rational

to be upset and it's sort of, sort of, perversely irrational at the same time. Yeah.

Because I can't do anything. There's, right. How upset I am. And, uh, I don't know, well,

I don't know what to do with all this energy. Uh, it's not even energy. What is it?

In our turmoil, I mean, it's, you know, we both said the only reason we got out of bed is because

we knew we were going to see each other. Mm-hmm. And I think it's just, it's the clash of denial and, and,

and the reckoning, the reckoning that this is still our country. We can't go anywhere.

I'm not going. I'm not going anywhere. I can't, well, I am going somewhere. I have a plane ticket.

I have a plane ticket that on the week, but you better come back. I'm sure I'm, I'm sure nobody

will want to keep me. I feel like we're all stuck for better, for worse. And we have to deal. I

mean, I, I think that's the biggest thing underneath all the fear, which is the biggest thing for me.

I have a lot of concerns about personal safety for me in my community and my family. I'm very anxious.

And I'm, you know, sadness and grief and, and doubt and also

acknowledging all the things that I ignored about what was going on and what probably would happen

is just the realization that this is it for worse, you know, we're here for better, for worse,

we're here. And we don't know what that looks like, the uncertainty, you know, if it had gone

the other way than at least we had a sense of what would happen, we have no idea what's going to

happen next. No. No. And that's really difficult. That's a really, really difficult thing to grapple with.

I have been thinking a lot about, you know, what my weaknesses in life, which is empathy.

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