my America

[hermetic]

My America is a thousand peoples, a myriad tongues, a full spectrum of colors

Comments

[kalient]

My instinct was to hit the "Like" button. And then I realized this wasn't facebook. It's ... unnerving to realize how much a website has influenced my thought process. ;)

Anyway, this was neat. Thanks for sharing.

[hermetic]

You're welcome.

[sparkymonster]

This is so wonderful. Thank you.

[hermetic]

You're welcome. And thanks, for all that you're sharing, too.

[easwaran]

Very beautiful! And also very true about what makes America special, at least when it works right.

[hermetic]

Thanks!

[matociquala]

My America is full of people like you, and that makes me hopeful.

[irismoonlight]

What she said. Thank you.

[hermetic]

Thank you.

[hermetic]

Awww, Bear...

[ckd]

Thank you.

For all the problems that my city[1], state, and country have, there are still many things which are better than they were last year (or even last week), and that will be be better next year (or even next week).

I walk down my street, in the "other" Cambridge of people who aren't professors or policemen, headed toward Harvard and Prof. Gates's house. I pass the corner convenience store with a sign in the window-in English and Amharic-that says "We have injera". I pass the Haitian barbershop and the Korean restaurant and the Tibetan rug store with posters in the windows that say "Free the Panchen Lama". I hear Spanish and Kreyol and languages I can't even identify...and I smile, and see smiles in return.

I remember the long line when I went to vote last November, and the number of people there, and the number of colors and languages and faces and ages represented.

That is my day. That is my hope.

[1] Cambridge, MA. Perhaps you've heard of it lately?

(Here via matociquala's link.)

[hermetic]

Oh, yes! That's lovely, and it's our future happening right now. Thanks for sharing.