I woke up early this morning, around 5:00 and instantly felt like I had to get to work.  On something, though I wasn’t sure what.   Somehow the  inaugural had seeped into the inner layers of my brain and  I felt like this morning was the beginning of a new chapter.  It’s a new chapter in everyone’s life, and I for one was raring to go.  Of course it’s just as efficient to think about things I could/should do while still reclined under warm covers…so I did.  What can I do to make a difference?  What can I come up with that combines things I love with things that are needed?

I’m still contemplating that as the sun rises in the eastern sky, the air warms and the snow glistens.  It’s going to take some thought, but I need to do something.  If every person found something to do that added to the good of us all…well…that’s almost too exciting to think about!  Sort of like Christmas Eve, when all the presents are under the tree, still wrapped, still untapped potential, and you’re about 8 years old.  Just too much to comprehend as a whole.

So I’m going to work on what I can do.  I’ll leave the contemplation about what all of you can do to you.

The cutest comment I heard last night at the library regarding the Washington events:  “Bush was the only president I’ve know my whole life! I don’t know if I’ll like the new guy.” –  by a little girl about 6 or 7 years old.