A Beautiful Thing

I cannot vote.  I am a permanent resident, but not yet a US citizen.  I wish I could vote.

I took my daughter to daycare today in our jogging stroller.  We ran past a polling station.  I saw the long line of voters waiting outside and my eyes got moist.

My husband returned from his polling station and said he saw an African American woman in her late forties or early fifties come out and say, "This is the first time I've voted in my life. We've got them."

Democracy, with all its problems, is still a beautiful thing.