Alien for a Day

Between the holidays, my worry about my own family’s health and the fact that a person who is mentally unstable is about to be president, my desire to be present in 2017 is gradually diminishing.  I like to think that things are improving in the world, that there is a forward trajectory.  As a woman I like to think that my position is getting stronger and not weaker.  Since I can not magically disappear until all my worries have resolved themselves, I have come up with the next best thing.  On days when the reality of living in 2017 is just too much, I am going to imagine I am an alien from another planet who has come to earth only for the day.  One given day can be all that bad.