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Many thoughts run through my mind as this election nears its completion. Those banging around in my head today center on the hard-won changes that have allowed our country to progress in a really positive way. For me, the best kind of change is that which allows us to gain greater rights for our country's citizens, and to advance in our journey as humans.

Civil rights, women's suffrage, and marriage equality are some hard-fought changes on full display this election. Although none has fully eradicated the huge problems they set out to ameliorate, they allow us to begin seeing each other as equals + begin to work toward a better understanding of everyone, everywhere.

Here are some scenes from the 2004 movie "Iron Jawed Angels", which covers a piece of the women's suffrage movement in the U.S. It was a huge struggle for our sisters to gain that basic right; the movie shows only part of that journey to pass the 19th Amendment... in 1920. I can't believe women have been able to vote in this country for a mere 88 years! So many impediments to voting have existed for so many in the not-too-distant past, and some continue.

I am so glad to be able to vote.



VOTE!