Yes We Can (hold babies).

Here we have the the Chandra triplets of Cleveland, OH in 2004:

After the cut, see how they’re doing now…

Something’s different… I just can’t put my finger on it. It’s somehow giving me this strange feeling of hope…

Proud parent Subodh writes of early November 5th, 2008:

My four-and-a-half-year-old sons are third-generation Americans of color.  They run around at reckless speeds blissfully unaware that their lives are filled with anything other than endless possibility.  They will not know of a time in which what happened yesterday was a big deal.  And that is good.

Last night, after returning home in the middle of the night from celebrating, Meena and I went to the bedside of each sleeping boy.  I kneeled, caressed their hair, kissed them gently, and whispered in their ears, “Tonight, something very important happened.  Barack Obama was elected the first minority President.  Martin Luther King, Jr. is smiling down from heaven because his dream is coming closer to reality.  You can contribute anything you want to this country–and this world.  You can be anything you want to be.  Do you understand?”

Meena and I smiled at each other in wonder as one of our boys, Karthik, with his eyes still closed, from the depths of sleep, whispered back, “Yes.”

My heart is full of hope that better days are ahead for us all.

Thank you for everything and anything you did to make this happen.