Last Sunday morning like so many Americans and people around the world I woke up able to take a deep breath of fresh air and consider a host of new possibilities.
When the networks finally called the election on Saturday and told us Joe Biden was president-elect and Kamala Harris was vice president-elect we could finally believe we are moving forward into a brighter future.
We took to the streets to celebrate. Living in D.C., I headed to the White House with thousands of others. We cheered each other, touching elbows with strangers, all the while wearing our face masks.
The same scene occurred in cities around the country; spontaneous, jubilant crowds celebrating Biden and Harris’s win and Trump’s loss.