Yesterday was a big day: we elected a new president, after a long, heated, powerful campaign season. Based on the intense public discourse during the past year, we can assume that people are experiencing everything from euphoria to despair. My pre-dawn idea this morning was: We should write a letter to our future self, to describe our thoughts or feelings today, and then compare them to how we feel at some point in the future after the rhetoric and hypotheticals have been replaced by tangible experiences. There is a very cool little website that allows you to do just that: www.futureme.org. You simply write an email to yourself, and postdate it to the day and year of your choosing, and you’ll find it in your in-box on that date. ta da.