I write this as tears roll down my eyes. I truly have had my soul touched and my spirit lifted today. As I watched the inauguration on television and saw the multitude of people, the smiles, the flags, the hope, the tears, as I witnessed Cicely Tyson speak from the crowd, like an ordinary person, when Obama gave his inauguration speech, I felt such a rise in my spirit for this country that I haven’t felt in many years. The benediction was a gift to me to be able to hear it. I know Martin Luther King was standing beside President Obama as he gave his speech and when he walked down the street, he and First Lady Michele, waving to the people. This is what I am watching as I sit here and write through my tears. I haven’t felt this way since a child when John Kennedy was president. I loved John Kennedy and Jacqueline. He was a great president, and there was just “something in the air,” back then, a Camelot. President Obama and First Lady Michele gave me back a little of that feeling I had when I was a teenager, that there is hope, people can see people instead of race and get to know a person for his heart not his skin color. This was a dream we had when I was young in the 1970s. Treat everyone equal. Our parents were not so ready to change, but after many years, it seems we babyboomers did make a difference, not only the babyboomers, but the younger generation now who have had enough and I believe the long-awaited Change Has Come To America.
God Bless President Obama and God Bless the United States of Amerca.
