Dawn from Bond Street

Today I had to be up early enough to get in a run before heading to the airport again. This time the domestic terminal, for a meeting in Wellington. Everything very straightforward. Around the equinox, the weather in Wellington can be foul and make getting in hard and leaving even harder!! No such anxieties today.

Instead the anxieties were in the US, where voting has been taking place. Yesterday, according to the vagaries of time zones and calendars and conventions about date lines. Yet while we were in the meeting, they were voting. Two staunch supporters of NZ's conservative Governing party (the National Party) were in the meeting with me, and afterwards while waiting for the plane home. Both watching the results of the US election on their iPads whenever they could; both keen on an Obama victory.

Many people in New Zealand have been watching and caring about the election of the US President, because of the impact it will have on much which happens in the world. As I write this, I believe that an Obama victory has been predicted or perhaps even declared. I thought the former; daughter J says the latter.

Somehow this wonderful dawn seems apposite; the emergence of light out of dark. I hope that Obama will be more able to deliver for the people of the US who need him to and that he is prepared to challenge the domination of world economies by unelected financial barons who care only for their own wealth. That he will at least attempt to implement policies that will provide health care, education and other such social goods on a fair and equitable basis.