Hope

Wow... YES WE CAN! What an awesome week it's been. I've never seen such global excitement about a US presidential election. Here in the UK, the atmosphere this week has been simply electric.

After months of depressing, recessing, war mongering news... the clouds finally parted. I've been rooting for Obama from the outset, through I must confess I never expected to be celebrating on the 4th November (or the 5th for us!). Its interesting how the 5th coincidentally happens to be Guy Fawkes night here in the UK... which is a night celebrating the near destruction of the heart of our political system, the Houses of Parliament.

I had wanted to stay up for the election result, but had a meeting super early on the Wednesday. The news came through to us around 4:30am; I was up just a couple of hours later and it made for a simply AWESOME 5th!

I saw the footage of the street parties on the 4th and desperately wanted to be part of it. It seems that this week the world has changed, finally the word Hope has a real meaning. Hope for the economy, hope for young black America, hope for the country but moreover... hope for democracy. Yes we can!