It's 5 am and I am up already. HIGHLY UNUSAL. I don't even get out of bed to pee at this hour and I'm almost 50 if that tells you how rare this is!
I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Like the day I had to have a double mastectomy - I want to get this day over with as soon as possible.
The polls are not open yet so I wait. While I am waiting I am thinking about our dinner conversation last night, and how different it may be tonight. Most of all, I want my son's to know WHY I vote - not WHO I vote for.
I am voting for the countless lives lost and millions who fought but never cast a ballot. I vote to honor the young men and women who protected my right like my Grandfather, and my Cousin and those who currently serve like my Nephew. I vote because staying silent makes me feel powerless.
Do you REALLY want to know who I am voting for??
I am voting for every woman to have the right to choose. I am voting for every child hiding in closet from a gunman. I am voting for the oceans, the forests, the amber waves of grain. I am voting so that no one EVER has to put off cancer treatment because they can't afford it. I am voting for black and brown rights as equal rights, finally. I am for the change I want to see in the world.
I am voting for my children, and my grandchildren, and ALL of the generations to come!!
Tonight, if my kids ask "who did you vote for Mom", I will tell them, YOU!
