A satellite image of yesterday’s inauguration, taken by the GeoEye-1 satellite. To the right is the blue-roofed Capitol building and the tiny brown clusters are the more than a million people who gathered at the National Mall. Download your own high-res version: Photo courtesy of GeoEye.
These are the times when I wish I could paint the world with words, spout imagery rooted in beauty and love and inspiration and meaning more than the combination of vowels and consonants and dashes and periods. I wish I could say how I felt yesterday as I sat glued to the TV and radio and Internet to see our country’s fate change, its history honored, its future become hopeful. Hope: What an amazing word! What a hard-won delicacy I want to savor. What a precious, precious thing to have suddenly, like a big, deep breath that fills your ribcage with undying optimism. Truly, amazing.
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January 21, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Kathryn Walker
when i was leaving the library to go to watch the swearing in at my folks’ house, there were all these people huddled around the circulation desk, waiting to watch it live on the internet. like time stopped. then at my folks’ house, the nurse who works a 12-hour shift all night and then comes to their house from 8am-noon every weekday, he stayed on even after he was supposed to get off work. and then the hospice nurse arrived and we all just sat there during the whole thing. it was something else. marcus, the nurse, he talked about how different it was from watching Bush 4 years ago where he was stationed in Iraq.