another little piece of history....

In my short 33 (and a half) years I have seen quite a few marvellous things....

eclipse's of the sun and the moon, comets passing through the night sky, a new century beginning and not only that but a new millennium too!! I've been to a special place in the world where two different seas meet (that was weird), I've dipped my toes in the Atlantic, the Meditteranean, the Aegean, the Ionian, the English Channel AND the pacific ocean/seas. I carried and birthed 3 children, 2 of them together (which is not the easiest thing in the world) and I'm raising them, a job that I'm proud to be doing and I hope am doing it well.

I have friends all over the world, I've been to places that my Grandparent's could never have dreamed of going and all in 33 (and a half!) years and thats probably not even half of things that have happened in my lifetime that I have been either part of or have watched from a distance and I really should make a list, I remember my father telling me how he stayed up all night and watched the luna landings on the tv and its always amazed me how when my Grandfather was born there were no such things as televisions!! Something that is just "there" for us now...

So when the opportunity allows me to witness a piece of history being made I am sooooooo there with tv remote in hand, which brings me to this....



This week the United States had their first black president sworn into office. I can only imagine how it felt to be there but I can tell you that it affected little old me in Bradford 3554 miles away!!!

I don't know what it was, maybe it was his magnificent words, (he is a master of the spoken word after all), maye I was softened by the touching images of his young daughters seemingly so proud and recording the days events on her camera that did it... I used to look at my own father with such adoring eyes too, I knew that feeling of pride swelling inside that little girl and the cheekiness of the younger one that still sees him as just "Daddy" who just so happens to be the President too... oh how I hope she can hold onto that and she doesn't lose him under a pile of work related issues. ok my eyes are filling now just thinking of them, it could well be a factor in what happened in my mind the other day...lol.

I believe him, I believe in him and I want him to succeed. I have no idea why and I will possibly be proved wrong as politician's aren't the most reliable people in the world really are they? But still, I believe in Obama... I feel that he really can make a change and that excites me.

I wish my Dad had been here to see it. Ever the socialist, always believing in democracy and the "right" way to do things and so anti-racism too, I remember talking with him last year about who would win the race between Obama and Hilary Clinton to be the candidate and he said then that he would like to see Obama become the candidate and possibly the president but he wasn't sure it would happen, it seems funny that it infact did happen... and he missed it all! He would have loved to have seen it I know that.

Obama mentioned in his speech that "This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed - why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath."

It made me cry. I, like many millions am moved by this man, I'm intrigued as to how he will complete his list of "things to do" but I know he'll do it and I'm looking forward to watching him.