As the days dwindle down to election the volume of words about the election seems to be ratcheting up.  I don’t think there will be a lessening or slowing down even AFTER the election.  This is one serious cyclone, hurricane, earthquake, tsunami and lightning storm all rolled up into one memorable election experience.

I was particularly swallowed up in the plethora of words in the News of the Week section of today, Sunday October 26 issue of the New York Times. It was a masterful job by a host of writers.  Even before I got to this section, Carol and I were entranced by the pessimism of the talking heads on the different channels with respect to the chances of the Republicans making a decent showing when all the votes are counted.  On the national scene it was not only the two Parties’ headliners and second bananas but the races for the House of Representatives and the Senate that excited the observers.

Just from the evidence of this morning’s review of the Times, the Miami Herald and the Television Channel programming, it seems that the Bush years will become history and a new page in American History will be turned because Race didn’t matter.  It is just a matter of time when the sex of the leading candidate doesn’t matter either.  The education of the American voter will certainly be upgraded to include the things that No Child Left Behind, Vouchers or Charter           Schools did not bother with in creating an educated and savvy public.

While what was said above seems evident, there will be a wild ride into the future because of all the problems left unattended to while the election excitement was going on.  The big issues that were left until after the election must take center stage.  The Wars, the Recession, new sources of renewable energy, our ailing health system, the foreign workers who want to come here to work and a middle ground in the philosophy of what America is and who is an American – all these must be attended to.

I have some personal problems to solve.  One is to pick up writing about the hunt for Nebuchadnezzar’s Pillar, another is to prepare for my second Bar Mitzvah which includes a little reworking of the internal structure of Me at age 13 and the last is to really take up carving Yads since I found the last one I kept which was missing in plain sight for years.  Then, too, we (but mostly Carol) are planning a Caribbean trip and Carol has been counting out our pills and making sure that there is nothing left un-thought of. The days do dwindle, don’t they?