Goosebumps
There are certain events that each of us bears witness to in our lives that we always turn around and say “wow, I never thought I’d see that”. Tonight was one of those nights. For me I’ve had two of those events in just a few years. Neither was impossible, but yet, neither seemed “likely” if thought about long in advance. The first was the 2004 World Series, where, I got to witness an event that my father and countless others like him never got to see in their lifetimes. When the RedSox won that last game a new reality came over me as I realized that thousands of people had been born, lived their entire lives, and died since the last time anyone had seen what I was seeing. New technologies had been invented, gone obsolete and faded into the past, political movements had come and gone, hell, entire countries had come into being, and been removed from the map in the years between 1918 and 2004. It was one of the most profound, amazing things I had ever experienced.
Now, again, tonight we see another new reality forming. Barack Obama is the nominee of the Democratic party in the…
