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01/20/2009: "Obama Inauguration"

It's finally here! I've felt like this before when JFK held his hand on the bible and took the oath of office. I just can't help but wonder how this country might have been different if only he'd been allowed to be our President for 8 years. I have the "Audasity of Hope," that this wonderful family will be leading us for his full two terms.
Aretha singing. I still love all her music.
Joe Biden getting sworn in. He's got to be better than the last. Cheney wrecked his back lifting moving boxes, so he's in a wheel chair. He doesn't have someone to do that?
The big boys of the strings are now playing. I wonder if their fingers are cold and were they given hand-warmers while they waited to play. They played past the time that he should have taken the oath. It's five after noon when he put his hand to Lincoln's bible. He's just a bit nervous, a couple of pauses. I wonder how the sound is back by the Lincoln Memorial and are there huge screens televising the speech. I think that I have a better view of the proceedings here at home and I didn't have to travel all that way or put up with the crowds or pay all that money just to be a part of history.
"We Need To Find A Place That We Are Safe." 'Praise Song For Walking Forward In That Light" Two lines from the poem after his speech. Two more reasons why I have to keep spreading the word for the need for safe havens that are needed in every community.
The sun is poking through the fog so I'd better get to work. I'm sure I won't miss any of the proceedings, they'll keep showing it over and over again for days.