WOW

[songspinner]

I finished performing last night (a fun concert) and got in the car to drive home. Turning on the radio, I was three minutes onto the highway when the NPR announcer got very excited and announced that McCain was about to speak to his folks. When he began and I realized what he was saying, I starting crying so hard that I had to pull the car over for a moment.

I will always remember sitting with my husband and daughter (who came downstairs in her pajamas), holding hands, with my sister on the phone long distance from Ohio so we could do it together, and listening to President-elect Obama make his speech. There were fireworks set off somewhere over town, cars beeping outside, people yelling downtown at the clock tower, I think.

I remembered my grandfather, a Jewish lawyer who was blacklisted by the FBI for working civil rights cases for African Americans and Native Americans, and how his neighbors stood up for him as a community and refused to let hate and prejudice win.

As a mom, as a teacher, as an American, yesterday meant so very much. And today means even more.

I can't wait to see my students in a little bit. They were so excited yesterday (I teach in a majority Hispanic neighborhood that was very much in general for Obama/Biden)...

Score a big one for hope today...and as he pointed out last night, now it's time to workk.

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[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Congrats to you guys, even to us it felt like such a enormous moment to us. Will you let us know how the kids reacted?