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Yes, thank you, Bruce. It's incredible. It's actually stirring up in me all sorts of emotions and feelings that I haven't felt for a very long time. Mostly, our government feels like it's of the people and by the people again, rather than of the status quo elite few. I've never, ever before felt like my vote, my voice, even counted. I've always had a sense of apathy. I feel so hopeful and excited about our country again.

The grassroots aspect of Barack's campain was just amazing. We all came together, through the internet, and got involved on a local level. I'm realizing one voice is a powerful thing. Texas is a McCain state, a red state, through and through...so I casted my vote, but also used my voice in other ways. I made phone calls to voters in North Carolina, a battleground state. It makes me feel like I played a part. Everyone played a part. It was a group effort, a team effort. I really do feel a solidarity...many voices speaking as One.

Not only all that, but here in the south, especially, this is just such a racially historic moment. I've been teary all day just thinking about it. I grew up in a very racially prejudiced family. I've been around it all my life, I was taught to hate...essentially. I always knew it was wrong and vowed that when I had children I would teach them to not even see skin color. And they don't. They will say, "That guy in the blue shirt" rather than "That black guy." This is one thing I'm so proud of as a mother to have taught my kids. Skin color is just like hair color to them.

But people have fought, people have suffered, died for civil rights. And now, wow, I sit and watch the first African American be elected president...by the people at the grassroots level. What a beautiful moment to watch all the tears streaming down faces last night. The light is being elevated, the love is finding expression and people are finally letting their voice be heard.

I feel the collective surge, too, Sri. One people, one planet. I'm just so happy today...