A New Energy

It has been a very long time since I've been around here, but I can help but feel inspired by our nation and the history we are making. The picture above is what our current artwork on our kitchen chalkboard. Though we are a white family, we are truly inspired by heart felt words. It is awesome for me as an independent woman in a loving same sex relationship to see a group who was once in my position rise to the utmost top of the world.

The door reads:

"Four score and seven years ago..." Abraham Lincoln

"I have a dream..." Martin Luther King

"Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations." Barack Obama

The other words I truly loved yesterday were these:

JOSEPH E. LOWERY: "And in the joy of a new beginning we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead man, and when white will embrace what is right."

I loved that the President himself touched on many races, creeds, and beliefs. Working in the airline biz you get to see the melting pot America truly is first hand. It is great to see so many in our country experiencing it all.

How AWE-some is it that over a MILLION people stood in harmony and NOT ONE SINGLE ARREST.

Words do not, and can not describe the feelings that my family had witnessing this. For so long we have fought the typical American "bigger is better, more is the most" attitude. I think that the time we are living in is giving many American a reality check of what is truly important. For me and mine it is: Faith, Family, Country, and Community.