Cracks In Sidewalks

Today is our Presidential election and everyone says that this election in particular is and will probably be the most important election of our lives.  It’s been a long two years since the campaigning began and now we’re down to the wire.  My original first choice is not on the ballot, but I’m happy to say I do not fall in the category of undecided.  Actually it’s hard for me to imagine anyone being undecided in this election, the candidates, their philosophies and platforms are at such polar opposites that I don’t understand the confusion or how anyone could not know by now which side of the fence they’re on,

They say there is going to be a record turn out.  That the states that allow early voting have already been saddled with overcrowding and long lines.  My sister who lives in Ohio cast her vote early.   She went with a friend to avoid the November 4th lines.  One of them voted Republican and the other Democrat, canceling each other out making it impossible for me to know which way the state is going to go, blue or red?  But when they were through casting their ballets, they decided to put their political differences aside and go out for a drink, celebrating the fact that they could vote and that they had exercised that privilege.

I’m looking forward to voting today, New York does not have early voting, and I’ll wait as long as it takes to get in the booth and I hope you will too because every vote counts whatever your beliefs.  Many of our citizens throughout our nations history fought hard so that “all” of us could have a voice.  It took a long time for the black voice of our nation to be listened to in our political process; it was years before women were allowed to be heard; and it wasn’t until our sons between the ages of 18 to 21 were fighting and dying in Vietnam did the United States decide that if someone was old enough to die for our country they must be old enough to vote.

So please let yourself be heard today.  Vote!  Vote!  Vote! This is an election where the people really need to speak their mind.  I pray my candidate wins but I know you pray that yours does too.

“Isn’t life grand?”