My grandmother, who is 80 something and pushing 90 years old, pauses for a bit between telling me about living with a new, chronic pain in her legs. "If Obama is elected President," she said, "it would be an amazing thing to see in my lifetime. Wouldn't that be something?"
The sense of wonder in her voice reminds me of how much has changed in the last 80 years, if not the last quarter century in which I've been alive.
