Inauguration

What a day. From the moment I woke up around 5 a.m. and listened to the radio news of crowds at the Metro, etc., I knew it would be a huge crowd. So large, they closed the mall between the Capitol and the Washington Monument by 10 a.m., as no more people could safely fit into that space. It was estimated to be close to 2 million people downtown to watch Barack Obama be sworn in as our 44th President.

People are very hopeful. I am hopeful, too, but I am also cautious. It remains to be seen what this new President can do. Accomplishing anything in government, with the bureaucracy, is difficult, and we are living in particularly difficult times.

Still, today is a new beginning, and I am hopeful.

Change.