"Tell me I got here at the right time, if I did it's probably the first time....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzf8QcZLXh4
Here At The Right Time by Josh Ritter
The cafeteria at work where I spend around an hour a night has music playing and it plays pretty good stuff. The other night I heard Trouble by Ray LaMontagne, Round Here by Counting Crows and the song above by Josh Ritter. His music has really grown on me over the past year.
Americans have elected Barack Obama as their first black President. The bigger significance of this is that they have elected a leader, someone who can work to bring together what is still a very divided country. A country with a lot of problems and a country that will need everyone as part of the solution. A historic President for historical times.
The division of America is still very evident by looking at the electoral map. Obama won mostly northern and coastal states both on the Atlantic and Pacific, McCain won Heartland and southern states. Obama won the biggest states New York and California. McCain won Wyoming 2-1, close to what Obama won New York by. I have a feeling race is still a major factor through the middle of America and it will take some serious work to bring everyone together. The voter turnout was close to 64%, the highest since 1908. Congratulations to all Americans who made their choice, this time you have made the right choice at the right time.
It has been a hectic start to the week but I did finish reading The Gathering by Anne Enright and it is a very good book. There is a comment in the book about how people don't change but are simple revealed to us through time. This might be absolutely true but change is possible, whether it is just another part of ourselves being revealed not only to others but to ourselves. Now it is onto the next book, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Below are a couple of live Counting Crows clips complete with audience singing from last week's concerts in New Jersey.
All My Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQA8zQN7Uk
Blues Run The Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyZMhyL6EaE
So begins another night.
john.