A Path

I don't intend to write much about the election. I do not proselytize in my emotions (or really anything else). Just a few thoughts, then.
How might a hopeful America proceed differently than a fearful one?
Will we take two steps forward and one back?
What obstacles will we overcome that are of our own making?
How many friends will we have to help us surmount those obstacles?

I saw this in the NY times:
Rosa Parks sat in 1955. Martin Luther King walked in 1963. Barack Obama ran in 2008. That our children might fly.

I liked it.