Post election

I'm not doing so good keeping up with 23 Things at the VHS, I guess because I have 123 other things that I am trying to do, most of them before our Board of Trustees meets in November. But if I had time to do one thing, I would write about my experience at the polls in Goochland, Virginia, last week. I stood in line for 45 minutes with dozens of my Goochland neighbors, in the rain, in order to cast a ballot in our presidential election. In a way, casting the ballot was anticlimatic to the experience of seeing so many people, young and older, black and white, standing together, some quiet, some talking amongst themselves, but peacefully awaiting the chance to exercise a right that sixty years ago would not have been nearly so accessible to more than half of them. How far we have come in this country--even if we do yet have a ways to go. Just standing in that line made me extremely proud to be an American.