Even the Queen

So. Politics. Pretty scarey stuff.

I'm trying to do my best to remember to take my antidepressants and not think too much about it because, if I do, I'm back in that place where I spent my childhood, where anything good can be taken away for no reason other than the meanness of an angry person, , and you, too, could slip off the edge of the world and there's no safety net and no one will even notice.

That's what the world felt like to me before Alexx and Melville Keep, and I know that that's the past, but my inner child exists pretty close to the surface, and she's not always easy to reassure.

Anyway, that was what I was thinking about, or trying not to think about, and then this other thought just slipped in.

Just think what it's like for Queen Elizabeth.

This is a woman who has spent her entire life trying to live with dignity, diplomacy, and a self-discipline of trying to be a wise ruler.

The woman is ninety years old, she has got to be tired.

And now she has to actually be nice to DT, and try not to stab him in the eye with a fork at state dinners.

On the other hand, DT and King Phil will probably get on like a house on fire.