Soapbox

Change is Coming

    This morning so I went to the NewsStand to see if they have that new Time magazine special edition with the great picture of Obama on the cover. As I was walking around peering at the shelves I caught the tail end of a conversation between the woman running the place and an older black man and woman.
     "Excuse me- what is it you were asking about?" I asked, and sure enough, they’d been looking for the same magazine, and the store doesn’t have it yet, and will get just 15 copies tomorrow morning. The three of us started talking about how we wanted to have something nice to keep as a momento of such an historic moment, and it turned into a 15 minute conversation, starting with the election but moving on into other areas.
     At one point I dug my ipod out of my purse to let them listen to a John Legend song which I thought they would like- and they loved it- and they asked me about ipods and how much they cost and how hard they are to use and could someone as old as them figure one out?
     I’m have to go to work this afternoon, so I wound the conversation to a close (we were in the parking lot by then) and we all shook hands and introduced ourselves (Gwen and Jim) before we parted.
      Gwen said "Well I must say, this has been the high point of my day."
      "My new sistah!" Jim. agreed "You sometimes find one in unexpected places, don’t you."
      "We usually have more in common with that person who seems so different than we realize" I said.
     Gwen nodded and said thoughtfully,  "You know, I"m not normally the sort who just starts a conversation with someone I just met, but… "
      And I said, "There’s something in the air, isn’t there? Change is coming."

They both smiled broadly at that.
That’s my prayer, anyway.