From TPM Reader DB …
It’s funny how difficult it is to get a handle on just what it is I feel about the election and now the inauguration — it’s a profound and subtle feeling. To be sure, there is joy. But it feels deeper than joy, and that’s the harder thing to get a handle on.
I’m adopted, and five years ago I met my birthmother for the first time. It was a life-changing experience (you can imagine) — I left our first meeting aglow with a very deep feeling of “rightness.” Of things in their place for the first time. The only time I’ve felt anything similar is the election and (today!) inauguration of Barack Obama. There is an aura of rightness around this moment, a feeling that things fit together harmoniously, finally. We are all reunited with our country today.
