Yes, we can move forward!

Yes, we can move forward!

We did it!  President Obama won a second term.  This is just awesome.  His speech on election night brought me and the entire nation to tears.  I truly felt like the spirit of the entire campaign was moving through me, as it was the thousands who were crowded in that Chicago Auditorium.  For the first time in months, I woke up this morning with incredible optimism.  I feel like the world is mine.  I woke up feeling like the only thing holding any of us back is our own pessimism and self-doubt.  As a nation, we have everything we could possible need in life, and for many of us, we have many of the things we want.  I know that I am thankful for health, happiness, love, hope, prosperity, sunshine, rain, family, friends, and forgiveness. 

As I took my morning walk through the neighborhood today, I embraced the views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco bay and I felt badly about the times I have woken up feeling overwhelmed and depressed.  I thought of the many people who have never had the chance to visit such a magical place as California and I gave thanks for being blessed enough to live in such a progressive and beautiful place. 

We live on a street in a house on a hill that overlooks the gateway to America, a place people crave to visit and to call home, because of the freedom we have to choose our leaders, the freedom we have to choose our lifestyles, the freedom we have to make good and bad decisions.  America represents freedom.  President Obama represents freedom.  He represents the freedom to dream the impossible, chart our course in life, and to follow the path to our dreams.  Thank God for enabling me to live in such a great nation and to experience such a historic event, and to make my own decisions and to learn from my every mistake.

Now, it is time to get to work!  We have a lot of work to do if we are going to maintain this optimism and spread the spirit of freedom as far and as wide as our dreams take us.

carladenise