Welcome, PRESIDENT Obama.

I know there is nothing I can write that will add a grain of salt to the this sublime moment in our history. Those who know me, or have been kind enough to read my postings here, know – unfortunately – I am never at a shortage for words. I’m not now. I can think of much to say, much to write . . . but I won’t give in to it. Well, maybe just a little bit . . .

As a nation, in the last eight years, we have suffered true and lasting damage to our way of thinking about “freedom,” and “liberty,” and “compassion.” We have also caused the world much grief and enormous damage. Despite this we remain at heart a good and noble people. Last November we caught ourselves, I believe, just in time, just before we may have forgotten who we are and who we have been. I’m counting the hours until tomorrow, when, for the first time the sun will rise at Noon, and the darkness fade . . .

President Obama inherits a nation sharply divided, but never more so than in March 1861 when

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President Lincoln said, in his inaugural address:

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Let us pray to – and invoke – the “better angels” of our American nature and rebuild our honored place among the nations of the world.

And for fun, here’s Kool and the Gang’s Celebration!

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