Leon Bibb: We are brought together by the Great American Eclipse [Video]

CLEVELAND — It is not often we as a nation are brought together almost of a single mind. It happened yesterday.  

We were of one community, albeit for just a few hours. We looked skyward and away from ourselves and any differences among us.  

The solar eclipse of the moon and the sun in alignment with our part of the Earth proved also spiritual for me. Maybe you, too. Millions of us waited in joyous anticipation for the moon to cast its shadow across our faces. 

In the shadow’s path we gathered in large or small groups. But in reality, we gathered as a single community of humankind witnessing the spectacular. We found sweeping agreement with each other as a stunning display of nature …