It’s been one week and a handful of hours since Obama became our 44th President. Seven short days and climate change, torture, ethics, and a whole host of other issues have already come to the top of his agenda. This has been a long time coming, this change. This week it still feel strange and peculiar—will we wake up tomorrow and have Cheney-in-Wheelchair back and in charge of far too much?
We are the people we have been waiting for—and we’re there. And now here. Now.
The public domain photo above was taken by Peter Souza and is entitled “Obama silhouetted behind flag in Dubuque, Iowa.”
I write therefore I am. My six-word memoir? Teetered on the precipice then jumped.
Interests: Reading, writing, not arithmetic. The art and craft of poetry. Photography. Vegetable and flower gardening especially heirloom bulbs and dahlias. Movies in real theatres. Theatre on real stages. Art in real galleries. Crossword puzzles and, of course, Wordle. Singer-songwriters like Aimee Mann and Patti Griffin. All kinds of music especially 1930s jazz. Venice, Italy! The Dude abides.
Interests: Reading, writing, not arithmetic. The art and craft of poetry. Photography. Vegetable and flower gardening especially heirloom bulbs and dahlias. Movies in real theatres. Theatre on real stages. Art in real galleries. Crossword puzzles and, of course, Wordle. Singer-songwriters like Aimee Mann and Patti Griffin. All kinds of music especially 1930s jazz. Venice, Italy! The Dude abides.
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