by Tao Oliveto, Carrboro, NC

Vote. Vote Early. Vote now.

There’s some good voting videos going around in cyberspace. Sarah Silverman reaches out to Jewish grandchildren in The Great Schelp and the other one, 5 Friends Uncensored includes a couple dozen celebrity voices. Sarah was more poignant than anything else in both views (though she does take her bra off under her shirt), so don’t hesitate to click on and click in, wherever you are now.

Watching Sarah made me think and made me laugh, but watching the other made me cry. I can’t say why. So, I watched it again just to be sure, and, well, tears running down my face and everything. Celebrities, irony and redundancy usually don’t move me to this place, but, for some reason, this did. Please watch and explain to me what happened.

If we could have three things in this world to instigate change, I believe it’s honesty, passion and action. Maybe that’s what this message tapped into. Looking at ourselves and the world in an honest way and then taking action to make the world and ourselves better.

Take time to think, take time to act.

Yours in Change,Tao

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