I have been trying over and over since the November 4. 2008 to really EXPRESS my awe and reverence to how I have been feeling over the past two years. How to put into words that evening and todays swearing in.

I have deleted EVERYTHING I have written because-it just doesn't capture those moments nor my deepest emotions.

As smart as I am, as lucky as folks tell me how I am-nothing seems to be HUMBLE enough.

I can truly see my mother grinning over the IDEA of an Obama. She and I are so much alike. Jessie Jackson, though I appreciate and will NEVER be what Obama has presented himself as: A man of the people WITH accountability and solutions no matter what.