Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Today Is the Day

We jumped from our beds like kids on Christmas morning. We couldn´t sleep any longer. Frightened that we would find only lumps of coal. But hopeful to find a new future.

We stood side by side. Breathless before the glowing television. And there was Barack. But we couldn´t tell. Had he won? Had he lost? The coverage was in rapid-fire Spanish. Breathless.

But then. . .

El primer Presidente negro de los Estados Unidos.

Slowly.

Llamadas de McCain a conceder.

We realize.

Victoria para Obama.

We watch the world celebrate. France. Spain. Kenya. We jump up and down. We embrace. And we say, Thank God.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Okay, he won. Y'all can come home now! Hooray!

I am so excited and wish we were all together to jump up and down and celebrate with wild abandon and glee!

Anonymous said...

Hip hip hooray. I LOVE Barack. My confidence has been restored in the American people.