President Obama

I took the day off to stay home and watch all the inaugural events. I wish I possessed the eloquence necessary to really explain how this event has affected me, but I don't. I've been back and forth between teary-eyed with joy and crying overwhelmed all day at the thought of having our first minority President. As a child I never really had many Hispanic historical figures to look up to other than Cesar Chavez with the farm laborer rights movement. As a minority, I connected most with African Americans such as George Washington Carver, (thank you for peanut butter!) Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the civil rights movement, etc.

I'm lucky that I never considered that it wouldn't happen in my lifetime. But to see all the men and women who had lived through segregation and fought for equal rights and lived to see a day they never thought they would see was inspiring.

from Reverend Joseph Lowery's prayer:
"when black will not be asked to get back
when brown can stick around
when yellow will be mellow
when the red man can get ahead, man
when white will embrace what is right
that all those who do justice and love mercy say "Amen"
Say Amen.
Amen."

I woke up today to find my goal for wheelchair met! But my hubby still needs a little help.

And I'll wake up tomorrow knowing that President Obama's got my back!





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