I'm not sure I how this is going to turn out. My ability to write this is not real good at the moment. I'm sorry this is short.
The day after the election in 2004, a good friend who works in England, emailed me the following:
"The whole world is laughing at you. You people are fools."
I couldn't argue it. I was upset, I agreed, he was pissed. Just a bad day all around. We stayed in touch, but I probably hadn't heard from him in a year.
I have this pile of call and walk lists I was keeping on a table in the living room that I did for data entry. I kept it as the butchers bill of my effort for Obama. Every night, the newly finished lists went in that pile. It grew to the point where is was high. Really high.
He wins. After a lot of crying, I measure the stack. 14 inches thick the stack was. I hold it like it was my child, I think I even gave it a kiss. All that work. All those late nights. It all MATTERED.
I get a text. Its my friend. It just says:
"Glad to see America has returned. We missed you."
Words fail.