2008 The Northern Lights of Happiness
posted by on November 5 at 16:53 PM
It’s the fifth day of November. It’s nearing 4 pm. I’m standing on the corner of 6th and Main. Behind me is a small beauty business, and heading west on 6th is a truck for a plumber. As it passes, I read on its side: “A way goes trouble down the drain.” An old black man is slowly walking down the steep hill between Main and Washington. Two white woman in a red BMW (dented door, dirty windows) stop and let a very pregnant Asian woman cross the street. In the distance, cars flowing up to the freeway. Further still, a string of airplane lights. Then it seizes me. A rush of joy. It emanates from a warm area deep in my being and terminates with tingles on my flesh. To see the inside of my body is to see an aurora borealis on an arctic sky. Obama is the president of the United States of America.
Noooooo shit.
January 20th, Charles Dear. Bush is still president, and can still do a lot of damage between now and then.
Catalina,
Don't rain on the parade of the USA and indeed the rest of the world.
Bask in the joy of a good man gaining access to the power to help you change your nation.
Those pictures are goddamn amazing.
The horror! The horror!
Loved the rain photos. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Thanks, Charles. That was lovely.
When the rush wore off did you realize that all we really got is a career politician with a poor grasp on liberty and economics?
Thanks - those pictures made me get all misted up again. I swear I have not teared up this much in forever.
@8 After the last 8 years, for you to write that is amazing.
What color is the sky in your world? Mine is blue.
Don't worry, John Bailo. The Obama Youth Brigade will be by shortly to escort you to the nearest re-education camp.
Beautiful. I was captivated reading & munching kettle corn... then smiling a lot.
:)