What a difference 2 weeks can make.
(A reminder that impermanence and change can indeed be our friends.)
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On January 6, 2021, the US Capitol was terrorized by an angry mob fueled by division, fascism, racism, violence, contempt for science, facts, and our country’s constitution and founding principles. The culmination of 4+ years of fear, greed, hatred, delusion, dog-whistling, and gaslighting: a democracy imperiled and held hostage.
Today, January 20, 2021, the Capitol was secure, and rose triumphantly again, peacefully and joyfully demonstrating the perseverance and resilience of our democratic ideals. Instead of division and delusion, there were words, songs, promises for revision, progression, cohesion, diversity & inclusion, and the celebration of history-making, glass-ceiling-breaking firsts. The long overdue return of respect, dignity, integrity, kindness, compassion, and conviction to, as National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman put it: “forge a union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.”
I’m feeling relieved, lighter, brighter, more hopeful, inspired and grateful that the peaceful transfer of power went smoothly today, and that we will usher in a new dawn where we will aim to band together as a nation to realize Gorman’s beautiful vision, to: “rebuild, reconcile, and recover in every known nook of our nation in every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful, will emerge battered and beautiful, when the day comes we step out of the shade aflame and unafraid, the new dawn blooms as we free it, for there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
I know I’ll be sleeping much more peacefully and soundly tonight (for the first time in perhaps 4+ years), knowing that the fate of our country and our world has once again been restored into very capable, compassionate, purpose-driven hands.
To all a Merry Inauguration Day, and to all a very good night!
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