PuppyCat LillyListening to: This seems like a good choice for today.
Bliss: Today's festivities. Feeling hopeful. Feeling a bit safer from my own government. Feeling like we could travel and not have to say we're Canadian. Ha.
The first president I was really aware of was Ronald Reagan. I mean, really aware -- you know, watching what it was that he was doing and understanding the scope of the stage upon which he acted.
During my life, it has often felt like the White House might as well have been Buckingham Palace. I have grown so weary of the same names and the same old same old.
So today is a relief in so many ways, as most of you reading this feel.
But I pray that we don't, as we have in the past, waste this opportunity.
You see, I think that liberals in particular have this tendency to sit back and armchair coach. They just don't have the fire in their belly that conservatives seem to.
President Obama, we think, will take care of business.
And he will -- but on a global scale.
What will be happening in your neighborhood? How will you dare to change yourself? How will you push yourself to meet, I am assuming, his challenge to participate in this new world?
Will you celebrate today and then go on tomorrow as if nothing has happened? Remember, you are the only thing you can change. You matter. What you do matters; what you buy (or don't) matters; what you drive (or don't matters); what you say matters.
Bush did some bad, bad things...but how did you contribute? How are you culpable for the wars that are raging?
If you need that fire lit, here are some old posts you could read through:
"Return to Nature" is a Lie
Revolution = One + One + One...
What will you Give Up?
Planetary Bodhisattva: Taking the Vow
No Matter Who Wins, You Can Still...
Car Freedom 101
Have fun today watching that Inauguration -- we deserve some fun and celebration. But get ready, because tomorrow, the real work begins -- and not just for one man.
6 comments:
Right on, Sister. xo
Well written! :-)
Amen :)
Thanks for the links to beautiful past posts! Some were new to me. :)
I always felt Liberals are the ones with fire in their belly. I guess we all see things from our personal perspective. Today is a great day. I do feel people are inspired and will work toward changing their own personal corner of their world.
I love that you wrote this post at 8 a.m. and that by a bit after noon our man had told the country essentially the same thing. "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility " he tells us. Kind of like Yeats: "In dreams begin responsibility." we dreamed our way to this reality, let's act together to make it manifest.
xo
M
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