November 5, 2008: The Walls Come Down

Dear Friends,

I feel so ALIVE this morning!  What a momentous day. I have been crying on and off for the last 24 hours, as the magnitude of this election and this moment in history sinks in to ever more subtle levels of awareness. A man who is the son of a white mother and a black father, a Christian who is the child of a Muslim, a Harvard graduate who came from limited means, a community organizer and a Constitutional scholar, young, dignified, intelligent, articulate and a born diplomat—Barack Obama is the new America. He is the exact person the world needs right now, and the perfect symbol of unity. He is the synthesis of why and how this nation was founded, what we longed for, and what we are becoming.

He has a tremendously difficult task ahead, and he needs us, whether we voted for him or not.  Cynicism is the most dangerous and destructive poison for us at this moment, and a desire for unity the impulse that can bring real change. The wall came down in Berlin because Germany wanted to be one country, and the walls can come down here—between red and blue, South and North, black and white, Christian and atheist, young and old—if we want it.

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
                                                                                                –Goethe

Love from Mrs L,
in the Striped Zone

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