it's election day!!! i woke up this morning with the feeling of childhood christmases past. it's finally here! election day!!! i voted weeks ago in oregon's across the board absentee-style voting method, casting my super-excited vote for barack obama, and today we will finally know if he won! this is the most exciting election of my life, and i think the most exciting election in recent history, in general. as well as one of THE most important elections ever. we are on a precipice here--socially, environmentally, economically...i cannot contain myself, i want to jump up and down squealing "election day! election day!"--this is our chance for real change, this is our chance to change america--the way it is and the way it is viewed world-wide, this is our chance to unite as a nation and really step up to our duties as humans on this planet...our chance for a leader that will encourage sane, healthy environmental choices...our chance for the lower and middle classes to THRIVE, rather than just survive...our chance to bring our troops home and let iraq get to their own business to figuring out how they want their democracy to be. i am SO DAMN EXCITED at the prospect of having obama as the leader of our nation that i am all aflutter inside, wired with energy and passion and eagerness. i have never felt this way before, and i love it. it's so important! i am so proud of our country that we even made it this far, that the democratic choices boiled down to a totally capable woman and a totally capable black man--it's exciting!!! it feels like equality--the gender and race didn't matter, for reals! and we'll finally know, tonight! who our next leader will be. it's awesome!
so if you haven't voted, go vote now!
when i was little my dad always took me to the polling place with him, and i was in love with the mystery and the grown-upness of it, the democracy-in-action. i always knew that it was a responsibility and a joyous right of adults, to inform themselves and to make thier selections. i couldn't wait to turn 18 so i could vote. i miss being able to do that with my kids, but they've picked up on the excitement anyways. when i came out this morning shouting "it's election day!" they, too, were excited, casting their sympathetic votes with obama (i admit i don't know exactly how they came to that choice, but i'm happy for it). vesta has been looking forward to the election day themed opb cartoons for two weeks!
yay! it's election day! go vote!
i am grateful for:
democracy
choice
hope
opportunity
grace
(and...the end of those horrible ads!)
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