Archive for January 2009
Notes on the last day before Tomorrow
It took us eight long years to get to this day, but we are here at the threshhold. Or as the pithy movie quote put it: Busted old joint, new Hotness. Though that sums up nothing about this orderly transition of power demonstrated in America once again, the line does illustrate one simple and stark truth at the end of this day and the dawn which follows: one in, one out.
Fourty-four.
Yes We Did elect Barack Obama as President
Amid the pomposity and circumvention of our recent past, the promise and celebration of our future, a breath softly ends one era and starts another. Yet the power wielded by this moment sends imperceptible shock waves years and decades ahead, changes we can only recognize in unseen days.
I know there’s a great deal of media circus and extemporaneous ‘hype’ going on to fill the hours of live coverage today, but the general sense of hope, inspiration and optimism I’m seeing and feeling from these images are now palpable. This is no longer a campaign in the political sense, it is now a civic movement. Change is not coming, it is here.
Today is the last day before Tomorrow takes effect in America — an astonishing, humbling and uplifting moment to witness.
To crib from another such moment in our time: thank God Almighty, here at last!
