screen-shot-2016-11-09-at-11-13-42-amYou may or may not like the results of the 2016 election year but I think we are mostly happy its over.  So where do we go from here? Travis Rice has an optimist outlook suggesting:

“Hitting rock bottom can be the start of a new, bright future… Like an addict, change for the better can be forced out of desperation. Here’s to never giving up willing a better tomorrow, today.”

While Tanner Hall is feeling media fatigue like many of us and just wants to zone out:

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Whether you like it or not, Donald J. Trump is president elect and if we are going to have a productive next 4 years we are going to have to accept that he won and get cracking on fixing what needs fixing.  Crazy times, buckle down America.

To check out the books in Travis’s post you can find here:

Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America by Dick & Liz Cheney

Suicide by Emile Durkheim

  [cover image from jskis.com]

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