I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately.

Not overwhelmed by too many things to do, but overwhelmed by too many things to research and evaluate.  Too many topics on which I feel like I need to delve in deeper and learn more, in order to form my own education opinion.

Today, I’ll start with politics.  In this season of primaries, it seems like everyone has a strong opinion as to which candidate is the ONLY choice.  Like most of my friends, family, and co-workers, I am a Democratic voter.  But unlike most of the people in my circle, I don’t see a clear choice between the two potential candidates.  There are important reasons for me to like each of them… and there are things that concern me about each of them.  Neither of them completely inspires me or fills me with hope…

I remember this time eight years ago… I’d been leaning towards voting for Obama rather than Clinton in the primaries, and then I heard this song that incorporated quotes and excerpts from Obama’s “Yes We Can” speech.  I looked up a recording of the full speech, and I was hooked.  I was inspired.  I was proud to be living the American experience, and I was proud to be full of hope.

Right now, I haven’t yet found the speech or interview with either candidate that hooks me in and sets me firmly in their camp.  And I’m feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of needing to dig in, search, research, and evaluate piles and piles of info and : in order to make up my mind.