* BLOG POST # 26! * (A Celebration)

As I write my Blog Post #26, I Celebrate the fact I have written weekly for six months!  I feel accomplished to say the least.  I always wanted to write a book and those that know me - know I talk so much that I probably could write one and will.  My sister and I use to joke around with different titles I would use.  ( I won't write them down here - that was between my sister and I.  But when I do decide to write that book I hope to use one of those titles and dedicate it to her memory.)

We also celebrate a day in history, that on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day it is the Inauguration of our First Black President Barack Hussein Obama - who has been re-elected for a second term!  "Four More Years" is what all people of color are chanting on the Nation's Capitol.  What an auspicious occasion it is, not just for myself but for my sons who are also African-American.

I will not bore you with my soliloquy but leave you with an excerpt of our 44th POTUS Inauguration Speech:

"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.  (Applause.) 

It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began.  For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.  (Applause.)  Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law  –- (applause) -- for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.  (Applause.)  Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.  (Applause.)  Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity -- (applause) -- until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.  (Applause.)   Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm."

January 21, 2013