Sunday, January 18, 2009

History has started to be made...

Today, the festivities have begun in Washington D.C. for the most historic days of our lives with the Inauguration of our first Black, true African-American President this Tuesday January 20.2009, Barack Hussein Obama OUR President Elect who just so happens to be half white too, oh how soon you all forget, but what about his loving deceased Mom and Maternal grandparents?!
Do you know what we call a man of his heritage in this day and age?
Do you really?
You may think you know, but what I call him may be more important than what others see him as…I call him an American!
Why do people forget that we are the original melting pot of the world? All of us except the Native Americans are from elsewhere.
It is true that half his ancestors may have not come on their own for the same reasons that ours did, but his Dad was able to be a free agent to go home when he chose to.
Don’t think that I don’t know that this is the most important inauguration ever, because it is; the honorable Reverend Martin Luther King’s dream is definitely being realized beyond anyone’s imagination. And all this has set the stage for a whole new generation with the reality of limitless possibilities.
All I can say to that is …it’s about time!
And I will be tuned to my TV with a great view of the whole amazing process.
I know so many, millions will be there to see it in person, but even I know that they will never get close enough to shake the great man’s hand or see the first lady or first kids.
Believe me I learned the hard way about in person and TV viewing at such an enormous event as this.

Well, maybe not quite so big in comparison but crowded with thousands not millions at; now don’t laugh, at a NASCAR Race the Firecracker 400 in Daytona.
I was lucky enough to receive free tickets while working in promotion way back in the early 1990’s and it was for the infield tarmac, hotter than blazes in Florida in July, anyway, the noise, the dust, you know what I’m saying… we left before the race was over, just in time to see the end in our air-conditioned home just ten miles away and considerably more comfortable!
I know, I know, there is something to be said for the contagion of excitement that live exposure gives you, but in this case I believe you also might get frost bite, maybe?
Anyway, I will be glued and tuned in like everyone else not there in person.

It is so wonderful with all that has gone wrong over the last year that we finally all have something right happening!

On that happy note I will say good night to all and to all take care.

PS: Updates: The Hubby tiling is complete and so is the grout, all it needs now is to cure for about 16 hours, and so by tomorrow night I will be back in my own shower, yippee!
2nd update: Electronically filed taxes, I have repaired mistakes two times and hopefully this last time is the last! NO emails are good emails.
Let us all pray…kidding!

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