I tried to write, really I did. But how can you not watch history in the making? I wanted to be a part of it, even if from a distance. I wanted to see the numbers add up as choices were made and voices were heard. I needed to witness Andrew Young, a man I came to admire and respect during the years I lived in Atlanta, brought to tears and near incoherence by the significance of and his gratitude for this day. I needed to hear the graceful and gracious concession of John McCain and the eloquently hopeful acceptance of Barak Obama. It was not a night for turning off the TV.
There were numbers more important yesterday than pages in a manuscript:
- North Carolina elected its first female governor, a Democrat.
- North Carolina elected only its second female US Senator, sending a Democrat to fill a seat held by Republicans for the last 36 years.
- It appears North Carolina narrowly gave its electoral votes to a Democratic Presidential candidate for the first time since 1976.
- And the United States elected its first black President.
I’ve always been proud to be an American. Watching those results last night, I was proud of Americans.
There are times fiction can’t hold a candle to reality. I couldn’t not watch.
KD James 
It would have been hard to write… it was easy to work out while watching the results. So much energy and emotion that it was almost palpable.
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I hope you got some writing done today although if you are in the same dazed state I am, maybe you didn’t. It still feels unreal.
But tomorrow, get back to the book.
tampelde – dazed, awestruck, dumbfounded.
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