was it ever really realistic to think that americans were going to hold hands across the nation forevermore, and that their fundamental ways of interacting/sharing/bring inspired was going to change? no.

community, sharing, and caring still go on, just in the individual & grassroots ways it happens in all of our lives. if we continued in the almost deranged and hyper sensational ways they’re enhanced during a campaign, i’m not sure we’d find the desired result there either.

the spirits that were raised during the obama campaign were real and still do exist, but yes, people must continue with their lives, their businesses, their own changes. just because we’re not all hooting and hollering still, doesn’t mean that it’s not meaningful that that happened, and that that energy doesn’t affect us still today.

simply, life goes on.

This spot is actually where I was with a friend when the election was called. The bar in the building on the left was actually projecting CNN, from their second story patio, onto the wall of the building across what was then a completely open space.