Having been absent from the blogosphere since October due to family difficulties, what a welcome change to return to it only twelve days from the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Unbelievable. Unprecedented. Indescribably delicious.
The USA is about to have a President who understands the concept of the human shadow, although he may not call it that. Who understands that name-calling, fact-twisting, blame-mongering or sending-to-hell will not solve any of our problems, and is, in fact, holding us back.
Who shows a graceful awareness of his country's shortcomings as well as his own, and shows the willingness and the ability to confront both.
Hallelujah.
While you wait for inauguration day, read both of his books, available now in paperback: Dreams from My Father, a clear-sighted and thoughtful memoir, and The Audacity of Hope, a succinct history of how the US got where she is today, and what can be done about it.
That creaking sound you hear, right there at the edge of your hearing, is the sound of the wheel finally starting to turn...
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