Hope

I'm packing to leave Monday morning on a bus for Boston. From there, I'll meet my friends Zac and Margaret and we'll drive up to Rochester, New Hampshire, where we'll volunteer until Tuesday night for Get Out The Vote efforts. NH is a state that is likely to go for Obama, but we want to make sure. Whether or not the landslide I'm hoping for comes, I want to know I did what I could to ensure this country has a hopeful, inspiring, intelligent leader, and we can begin to crawl out of the hole we've dug for ourselves with the rest of the world. To quote Obama, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

For some extra inspiration, I walked around one block in my neighborhood (the block next to ours) and took a photo of every form of Obama support I could find. It resulted in 22 photos! Many of the people of my neighborhood (Clinton Hill) probably never dreamed a man of color would be elected president in their lifetimes, but are they seriously motivated by it. Here is a selection of the photos. I hope they inspire you to get out and vote, no matter who you vote for...