That is an expression my mother used. I don’t know if it is still used today but it means restless, anxious, excited, stressed all in a tight bundle. Revving with no place to put the energy. I woke up that way this morning. I had one of those college dreams. I just forgot I was enrolled or something. Anyway I never went to any of my classes and there I was at the end of the semester trying to figure out a plan. Thankfully, I woke up.

Still keyed up after reading the newspaper. I resisted the news leading up to the election but now I cannot turn away. Why are we not talking about impeachment? I want to scream this. I guess the reason is that the Republican party holds both the House and Senate. Is there really no man or woman on that side who is not scared by the unhinged abuse of power that is happening right now. Elon Musk scares the crap out of me. Why won’t anyone stand up to these bullies? 

Still keyed up after my morning run. I use my morning run to work things out in my head and reframe negativity into positive thinking. I deliberately went for a little longer this morning because, as you know, I was all keyed up. There were a few moments of positivity mostly involving birds and my hips. A bald eagle was spying overhead and then swooped down about twenty yards from me to get breakfast. Poor rabbit, I know but still it was majestic. A few moments later I was in the midst of a black blizzard as a swarm of grackles with their collective whoosh took off surrounding me. But again. Why are we not talking about impeachment? Then there was a moment of gratitude when I realized hey, my hips don’t hurt but that’s a topic for another essay. 

Still keyed up after my post run stretch. So here I am at my keyboard typing these words quite remarkably fast. When will we start talking about impeachment? How can we let these two men, one of whom was not elected, ruin our majestic nation? We are flawed for sure but checks and balances are a beautiful safety net and if that net is not gone completely there are sure some gaping holes in it.

Still keyed up. Join me. Let’s start talking about impeachment.