S W O O N D: we got it right! yes, we did.

11.04.2008

we got it right! yes, we did.

A new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To our friends around the world: Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

:nytimes, callie shell for time

6 comments:

Janelle said...: oh oh OH! SO MIND BLOWINGLY FANTASTIC!! here in africa the streets call his name...! there is a public holiday in kenya. sadly not in tanzania..but this is the best news for a very very long time... again. thanks for your awesome blog. x janelle; 11/05/2008
Jen said...: I'm dancing, I'm crying, and I'm so loving all the images.

We are unified.

We are diverse.

We have a true leader.

Wooooooohoooooo!!!!; 11/05/2008
Bhixma said...: A Blessing Day to all the World
Carlos (from Portugal, Europe); 11/05/2008
Vanessa said...: This event brought tears to the eyes of this jaded, world-weary politico. This is powerful, and I am just humbled by the chance to witness this transformation in America.; 11/05/2008
tangobaby said...: What a gorgeous post. I just can't get enough of reliving last night.; 11/05/2008
paris parfait said...: So so HAPPY! WE DID IT!!!; 11/11/2008

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- w. b. yeats

sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

- tom robbins

the same dream returned each night until i dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. i dreamed i had a child, and even in the dream i saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and i ran away. but it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. until i thought, if i could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps i could sleep. and i bent to its broken face, and it was horrible . . . but i kissed it. i think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.

- arthur miller, after the fall

YIN AND JUNG

who looks outside, dreams;

who looks inside, awakes.

everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

when we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. we wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. but to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

- carl jung, the stages of life