I tried to write, really I did. But how can you not watch history in the making? I wanted to be a part of it, even if from a distance. I wanted to see the numbers add up as choices were made and voices were heard. I needed to witness Andrew Young, a man I came to admire and respect during the years I lived in Atlanta, brought to tears and near incoherence by the significance of and his gratitude for this day. I needed to hear the graceful and gracious concession of John McCain and the eloquently hopeful acceptance of Barak Obama. It was not a night for turning off the TV.
There were numbers more important yesterday than pages in a manuscript:
- North Carolina elected its first female governor, a Democrat.
- North Carolina elected only its second female US Senator, sending a Democrat to fill a seat held by Republicans for the last 36 years.
- It appears North Carolina narrowly gave its electoral votes to a Democratic Presidential candidate for the first time since 1976.
- And the United States elected its first black President.
I've always been proud to be an American. Watching those results last night, I was proud of Americans.
There are times fiction can't hold a candle to reality. I couldn't not watch.
2 comments:
It would have been hard to write... it was easy to work out while watching the results. So much energy and emotion that it was almost palpable.
I hope you got some writing done today although if you are in the same dazed state I am, maybe you didn't. It still feels unreal.
But tomorrow, get back to the book.
tampelde - dazed, awestruck, dumbfounded.
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