No Wordlessness Today
Here's something you don't see every day here: A line -- a long line -- leading to the neighbor's garage, a.k.a. our "precinct," where we voted in the rain. And, for the first time in our 22-year marriage, my husband and I didn't cancel each other's votes.
Seems like everyone at work had their "I Voted" stickers proudly displayed on their chest, not just the usual four or five regulars. Then a big group of us watched the East Coast results come in at a bar after work, all of us supporting the same presidential candidate and hoping for a defeat of Prop 8. We were black, white, Latino, Chinese, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant. One pair of gay brothers said their mother in Sacramento voted for the first time in her life, leaving the ballot blank except to pick Barack Obama and to vote No on 8.
Obama won, as everyone now knows, but Prop 8 is currently winning by a thin margin.
Whether your guy won or not, and whether a cause you believe in passionately succeeds or is defeated, thank you for exercising your right to vote and helping this nation heal. You did America proud yesterday.
Seems like everyone at work had their "I Voted" stickers proudly displayed on their chest, not just the usual four or five regulars. Then a big group of us watched the East Coast results come in at a bar after work, all of us supporting the same presidential candidate and hoping for a defeat of Prop 8. We were black, white, Latino, Chinese, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant. One pair of gay brothers said their mother in Sacramento voted for the first time in her life, leaving the ballot blank except to pick Barack Obama and to vote No on 8.
Obama won, as everyone now knows, but Prop 8 is currently winning by a thin margin.
Whether your guy won or not, and whether a cause you believe in passionately succeeds or is defeated, thank you for exercising your right to vote and helping this nation heal. You did America proud yesterday.
