Thank-you America...

In your darkest hour, you chose hope over fear, light over darkness, the future over the past. You turned out in numbers too large to ignore or suppress or steal. You saw the importance of this moment and did what so many have failed to do in the past - show up and vote.

America has turned a page to a new chapter in this infancy of our third millennium. It's the morning after in America. The hurricane of the last 8 years is moving on and the sun is shining. There's a lot of damage to clean up, but like the good people in the small towns across America, we offer each other our hands and our sweat and whatever else we may have to give to help our neighbors in need. The sparks we've created together will shine a light down the hallways of the next century.

Thank-you Obama for seeing the responsibility we're asking you to accept, and - knowing the enormity of the weight - willingly hoist it upon your shoulders and ask for our help to share the burden.

Thank-you to all of you on this blog. You've helped keep me sane, let me spew my turgid prose upon this electronic page... You are all important nodes in this vast electronic web, spreading the message in all directions. Although it may feel this way at times, we are not an echo chamber... we are a way station on the information superhighway, and our voices are carried on by all those we contact on a daily basis. We are a voice in the crowd, but it is all those voices in the crowd together that have brought us to this momentous occasion:

President-elect Barack Obama.

Yes, we could.
Yes, we did.

Thank-you