Maybe this is crazy but I feel that we are on the cusp of some kind of wonderful.  Call me the perennial optimist but I believe the struggles that America is facing are just the precursor to a greater shift in consciousness. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.  We want more meaning from life, not more things.

So it may be that we are still inundated with the same negative campaign advertisements, same negative discourse amongst pundits or negativity in our own backyards but we cannot deny the fact that there has been an influx of hope into our psyche.  We will still have our own opinion about the current political climate, but we are changed because the general conversation has changed.

Sitting in the front seat of history, watching the alteration of a nation’s landscape and ideology has brought me to tears.  From this point forward a person of color or a woman can now plausibly run for the highest office of our land.  This means that I can now look at my daughter and honestly tell her that she too can run for President.  How huge is that?  How can it not make you well up?

For the first time in history gay couples are being legally recognized as married couples.  So maybe it’s only in a couple of states, but come on … in the same year that we have a African American man and a woman run for President and then another woman for Vice President? At a time when we are demanding more innovation in the fight against global warming?  This is not Obama, this is not McCain.  This time it’s the American people speaking here.

And despite the outcome on November 4th, I can still say that our country has evolved.  It’s crazy and it’s beautiful to watch and it makes me proud.