Obama won last week. I can hardly write it without tearing up. its taken me so long to process what this means while trying to access how it feels...and though the word is larger than life, somehow Hope doesn't encompass it all.
It means we still live in a country where anything really can happen. Where I really can tell both my son AND my daughter that they can be whatever they want to be-- even President. It means we are more alike than we thought. It means most of us still care, still believe in the promise that this country made to us, and still feel pride when we see the American flag. It means that though I live in the middle of a metropolitan city, I can still feel so much joy at that moment that I hug and cry with every stranger I see.
We were here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qL-CgzQ0FY
How do you capture that kind of joy again? That one man, this new President, has brought that in people even if just for a moment in time -- well that is worth my vote a thousand times over.
Godspeed, President Obama. The world is yours, and we are there to be on your team. Don't stop believing, indeed!
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