I think Stephen Colbert
said it best:
“I’m a little stunned. I don’t know what to do with my happiness. I’m still afraid someone’s going to take it away.”
There is so much I'm feeling. It's difficult to describe it all. Nonetheless, I'll try. ;)
I fell asleep last night exhausted with joy. I pulled the blankets over myself knowing that this one day will be the catalyst for some much needed change; knowing that on January 20th, we'll be swearing in a man who will hold us to his heart as tightly as he holds us in his hands; knowing that walls that, for years, had been reinforced have come crumbling down.
Obviously, and unfortunately, there are still walls that need to be broken. Newly obtained rights are about to be torn out of the hands of too many people; marriage licenses dissolved. It's disappointing to know that there are people who feel their neighbors, their brothers and sisters, should be treated as separate but equal. I'm hopeful, though, that after embracing a black man as our President, we'll soon ALL be able to embrace the lives and rights of our GLBT community. Everyone's love matters.
More than anything, I'm overwhelmed when thinking about my nephews. They won't remember a world where they didn't have a President that shared their skin color. No child born after January 20th, 2009, will live in a world where every leader of the free country resembled one another. The inspiration this is going to bring to the future of our country is mind-blowing.
Today is a beautiful, beautiful day.
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