Pearl Jam – W.M.A.

This morning I was really feeling the anger stage of grief about the election. By the time I headed home after work I was back in the depression stage, after cycling through all of them throughout the day.

But in the car on the way to the office, I was making my way through the early Pearl Jam albums. Young Eddie Vedder with his barely contained rage. YES. More of this, please. When I got to this song, with those drums pounding and Eddie belting it out, I felt stronger than I have this whole past week.

I am probably going to keep pinballing around between denial, anger, and depression for the foreseeable future. One thing I really have to do is limit my news and social media intake (she says while posting on social media). Every time I hear about some new cabinet appointee, or some plan to destroy fill-in-the-blank, it sends me reeling. There’s nothing I can do about those things and losing my footing is really not helpful.