Great Day in America...

...and the world. Hope you're enjoying the festivities. Hope you are somehow participating in the joy and hope of the moment. I like this post from daily kos; maybe we can make it last more than one day:

Cheers and Jeers: Inauguration Day

by Bill in Portland Maine

Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 05:03:32 AM PST

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...

For One Day

No cynicism
No anger
No rage
No rants
No fuming
No fighting
No teeth-grinding
No axe-grinding
No finger-pointing
No tut-tutting
No bitterness
No bloviating
No bickering
No bitching
No frustration
No pettiness
No worries
No quibbles
No quarrels
No squabbles
No seething
No snipping
No sniping
No whining
No wankery
No regrets
No fear
No hate
No agenda

Just celebration...

And jubilation...

And pride...

And hope...

And history so thick you can cut it with a knife...

And one word---originally spoken and repeated by John Adams to George Washington---that skips like a stone across 220 years of American history to echo on the steps of the Capitol at noon today with new significance:

"Finally! Finally!!"

For at least one day...

This one glorious day...

It's all good.