Face the shore and step out boldly

[sovay]

It may be a popular index of the low bar of our country that I woke with a jolt at noon and realized no one had called to tell me that anything dreadful had occurred pre-inauguration and then fell back asleep until one o'clock when no one had called to tell me that anything dreadful had occurred post-inauguration either and now I am catching up on all the meaningful real and ritual gestures that I missed while finally in a post-Arisia state of collapse. I know there is a plague still raging, I know white supremacy has not been hurled forever out of time, but I am glad of the safety and the beauty of the ceremony. I am glad of the inaugural poet. I am glad of the diversity of an administration that does not aspire to kill me. selkie sent me "God Bless America" af Yidish courtesy of the Folksbiene. May the day set the tone for the future. I have been having a lot of conversations about tikkun olam.

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[gwynnega]

Here on the west coast, I woke up a little after seven a.m. and wondered what I would find out if I turned on the TV or my tablet. I waited a little longer, and then I did, and nothing bad had happened, so I watched the inauguration (not literally but figuratively through my fingers). It has been a good day.

[sovay]

It has been a good day.

I am glad it has been. I look forward to a time when that definition does not require an absence of assassinations. (And plague.)