More election aftermath.

1) I've been listening to Philip Glass's "Satyagraha" like I have been the past two weeks, only a lot more, and although I knew that it was in Sanskrit, only two days ago did I realize that there was a lyrics insert, and that every single word is actually a close adaptation of the Bhagavad Gita. So, I had actually been immersing myself in the words of the Gita for hours on end each day. And, it turns out that the most moving parts that I had found myself listening to and re-listening to without knowing what they were, were Krishna arriving to teach Arjuna, and Krishna talking about his many incarnations across all time.

2) I've been thinking a lot about people who I know from other countries -- my (Thai) coworkers and the speech restrictions and abolition of political parties there, and an old (Tibetan) coworker whose mother hid food in caves because she knew that the (Chinese) were coming, and then when that began happening, she went away and lived from cave to cave and moved by darkness until she made her way to (India), and an old (German) (Jewish) resident at the resthome where I used to work who saw a synagogue go up in flames as a little girl, and to this day she won't go back to participate in memorialization services put on by (Germans). And a (Sudanese) relative of my (half Sudanese) (half British) friends (the brother-sister pair), he recently fled Khartoum with his young family and had to live in Egypt and find work to support them, and this was in the past several years. Such different lives, and not all under functioning democracies. I think about all of them, and I think that I've been relatively fortunate in my life so far.