I'm selfish

The pomp and circumstance is fun and beautiful, but I really just want him to take the oath and get to work. 

Liveblogging

Conspicuous lack of applause for Rick Warren.

8:58 GOODBYE DICK CHENEY!

9:05  It is done!  Hail to the Chief.

I am completely overwrought.

9:08 -- Have to listen to the speech later, time to take Maggie to school.

I miss my church

Most of my life I've had an awful time finding a church I feel good about being a part of, but back in the early 1990s in Sacramento I found a marvelous place, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento.  Under the minister Dr. John Young and a talented and involved Board of Directors, under the big wooden dome, I found a spiritual home that fit just right.  A few years later I moved away, and eventually Dr. Young did, too, and things changed as things do.  I've tried a few churches in different cities but never found anything that even came close to fitting the way UUSS did.  And today I wish I could share the joy and hope with my old congregation. 

Obama can't make me more eloquent, but I can

I'm hoping to improve my posts in the coming year(s).  I am frustrated by my relative lack of competence with words -- I'm out of practice, sloppy, and completely lacking in confidence.  But with practice, that will change.

Here's what I really started this post to say.  After the inauguration, which took place at 9am my time, I was headed for a physical therapy appointment.  At a traffic light I approached a Chevy Blazer with "I AM GAY" finger-etched in the dust on the back window.  My first response was, "I wanna go hug that gay guy!"  It literally took me a minute to realize that those words were far more likely to have been drawn by a youngster thinking he's making a clever insult than by someone proudly declaring his sexual orientation to a post-Bush America.

Which really barely begins to describe what it was like to be me sitting in my car oblivious to a homophobic "joke," but at least it begins. 

Televised inaugural ball

Mary J Blige performing in a formal gown. 

This is pretty fun.