A Vision for Our Country, For the World

For months I have been working full time for the Obama Campaign for Change in the Gainesville,GA office. I have been giving the campaign "more than full time". The rewards have been incredible. I have lived in Gainesville for 31 years, and I am just now learning about my community...and most importantly, it's people. My path has been crossed, and my heart invaded by people who I would never have known if not for Senator Obama's Campaign for Change. The vision for our country must be one of hope and prosperity and equality...and we must work hard to have this become a reality.
The volunteers of the Campaign for Change are doing this one person, one relationship at a time. Many of us have never worked on a political campaign before, but after this experience, we are determined to keep working for the betterment of our community, society, our country and the world at large...no matter the outcome of this election.
I took this picture at a campaign fuction at our office this past Saturday (October 25). ("A picture is worth a 1000 words";" A picture confers importance.")To me, this picture shows the vision and possibilities for our society and our country...most importantly, our world. The future is in our children...but the future is also with us...at 62, the future is with me...the future is NOW!
RalphWaldo Emerson said: "Every man is a quotation from his ancestors" When we become 'ancestors", let our quotation be one of equality, possibility, hope, and continual change for the better. Namaste, diana

Oh What A Feeling

Today I watched as Senator Barack Obama gave a speech to 200,000 people in Berlin, Germany. There has been nothing to compare to this event, and there doesn’t need to be!

Senator Obama presented himself with poise, honesty and respect. The core values of Senator Obama, his love of America, his respect for the world and all the people who inhabit it, and his respect for our planet were expressed concisely and with sincerity. He is a man of integrity and vision. I know of no one who shares my values to any greater degree than does Senator Obama.

The votes have not been cast, the conventions have not even taken place, and yet today I was given a glimpse of this country and the world that we can have when Senator Obama is President Obama. He is a man of elegance and sophistication, and yet he honors and exercises the values instilled in him as a child, and which he continued to develop as a young lawyer on the streets of Chicago. He is a man of intelligence and courage, tempered by humility.

Hamilton Fish said, “If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in a time of peace.”