Yesterday was such an inspiring day. I was still in some pain from my wisdom teeth operation, but as soon as I managed to get Obama on my laptop, I forgot about everything else . . . well, my son did his best to get involved by gleefully typing on the keyboard and insisting that the speech needed a background soundtrack ("Wubba Wubba" sung by Grover several times). But all that just made me feel like it was a real day and not some fake political moment.
Just about everything Obama said touched me. I kept thinking, "He's our president? Really? We get to have him?" It's so exciting to have a leader who seems so thoughtful. I don't know quite how so many people decided that conservatives have a monopoly on values; I'm proud to say that I'm a liberal who votes based on values. It feels so good to have someone with such fine character leading the way.
I watched the inauguration speech on the CNN broadcast with Facebook, so I got to see some of my friends writing about their reactions as it happened. I wasn't the only one getting teary-eyed. I really loved his line about parents making a difference for the country by choosing to nurture their kids. As important and demanding as parenting is, I'm not sure it's on the same level with the heroism of firefighters. But after teaching public school, I know for sure that America is a whole lot better every time a parent consistently cares for a child. When that doesn't happen, it takes a lot of people to try to do enough good to make up for it.
I was pretty annoyed by the Starbucks commercial at the end of the CNN/Facebook broadcast, and I remember thinking it was very tacky. But I guess I'm going to be equally tacky now and use this as a forum for sharing my designs.
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