Thursday, January 20, 2005
[March 4] January 20
Happy inauguration day! No matter who had our support in the election, today is a day to reflect on the fact that we have elections and can live our lives expressively and openly. Little girls with no shoes can grow up to be fabulously successful singers, little boys in abusive households can grow up to be president, Austrian immigrants can marry famous women and become governors, rich daughters of famous fathers can marry unknown men and become housewives, well-educated people can choose to do construction, children of seamstresses can become college deans. On and on, trillions of words would have to be written to encompass all the variations on this theme, the point being that Inauguration Day is a good occasion to acknowledge that this is an amazing country and that we're lucky and blessed to be here.
Labels: anniversaries, politics
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