[Dialogue] "Yes We Did!"

[Patricia Tuecke]

I started this message last night but didn't send I til  now..

 

I just got home from the Reno Obama-Biden Victory Party. I'm too excited to
sleep. 

We've turned the campaign for change slogan of Yes We Can to Yes We Did. Now
we must turn it into Yes We Will."

 

Tonight, when I saw the crowd in Grant Park in Chicago it brought tears to
my eyes. I was in Grant Park 40 years ago during the Democratic Convention.
As a new intern in Chicago in 1968, I went down to Grant Park with a car
load of others (I can't remember who) to be, in our jargon,  participant
observes in whatever was going on with the demonstration. Then tensions
heated up between the cops and the demonstrators. We weren't in the middle
of things and were able to work our way out of the panicked crowd, but not
before I got a whiff of teargas - not strong enough to be troublesome. All
this is to say that last night, when the big screens showed the huge crowd
in Grant Park, my heart filled up and overflowed as tears filled my eyes. 

 

What a different mood there was tonight.  Rejoicing and celebration instead
of anger and confrontation. What a difference 40 years makes!

 

P.S. If any of you  reading this were with me that night, please let me
know. I have images of the events but none of my colleagues. I'd love to
hear your story of that evening. 

 

Pat

 

Patricia R. Tuecke, Sierra Circle Consulting

Facilitating Amazing Results!

775-333-6998   ptuecke at charter.net

 

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