Yes, and I am still feeling it all from last night. I cried along with Oprah and Jesse and all the people in Grant Park Chicago last night, and with those gathered at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Martin Luther King's church.... A dear friend text messaged me around midnight with the words: "Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Barack could run."
Still...we know the challenges that must immediately be faced, and how formidable...and I recall a quote that I posted back on the 7th of October: "Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems." ~Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi
Paula at her House of Toast spoke words to ponder--as she so often does--in her post of this morning: "An amazing grace, indeed. We wake from a long nightmare, not just into the ordinary day, but into a brilliant new day ! But how can we be fully joyful this morning when California (and Arizona and Florida) appear to have voted to enshrine narrow, religiously sectarian, anti-family bigotry in their state constitutions ? How can we be unreservedly joyful until full human rights are afforded to all our brothers and sisters ?" Read the whole post here.
I am joyful this morning, but as Paula put it later in her post, there are still "miles to go before we sleep."
I am joyful this morning, but I feel compelled to post this tempering to my joy for my dear friends who are still not given the basic human rights that are their due...
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Don't temper your joy! That won't be useful. Instead, harness it. Embrace it. Use it to remind yourself in what direction you want to go, what direction our country should go, then start working for it!
ReplyDeleteBarack's philosophy of "Yes We Can", was not meant to just let us believe we could elect him. It a mission statement, of sorts. Last night was a first step on the mission justice, equity, and equality in Americica.
Val, I thank you for your thoughts about this.
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