inauguration

Hope you guys had a chance to check out the inauguration events on TV. I was downtown covering people's reactions this morning and it was interesting to see the different reactions.

A few people stared at the TV, mesmerized, even clapping after certain lines. Others simply ate their lunch as usual while the events played out like any other news broadcast in the background.

Sure, change isn't going to happen overnight, but all the hopes and dreams that accompany new leadership at least warrant a brief pause.

I'll leave you with this advice Alice Walker recently gave Obama:

One way of thinking about all this is: it is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is only what so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, but this is because it is not clear to them yet that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone.

(via Jezebel)