Still Floating Happily

From World Hum, Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking Planet. Photo by Frank Murray

Yesterday I sat glued to the computer and ate up every single second of the inauguration. While it was like watching a jerky stop-motion amateur movie, it was still fabulous.

I also made time to unwrap a shipment of Wally Ware, which I am VERY excited about. Here's a little peek:

I don't know about your cat, but my cat is a bit impatient. Pretty much a perfect bowl... These should be for sale on our webstore by Monday!

Change We Can Believe In?

Change We Can Believe In?
Originally uploaded by starbuck77

To the right: trash left behind the inaugural concert on Sunday. "We are One" big bunch of slobs.

Call me crazy, or just a crabby semi-old lady, but it seems that "change" begins with each of us. Dumping trash, however neatly, is just so....last administration!

Let Freedom Ring: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2009

As we are about to inaugurate our first African-American president, I find this speech especially moving.

"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."

As discouraged and disheartened as I have been these past long eight years, I am equally joyous and hopeful for the next four (or eight?). For the first time in years I am not ashamed to be an American.

For those with short attention spans, the "I Have a Dream" section begins at 12:28 .

For the full text, click here.