Yesterday

I watched 17 not-so-little heads bow as Rick Warren spoke the invocation.

I smiled at those same seventeen faces when they asked me to hold their hands as President Obama began to speak.

I was amazed at how quiet they were when Obama spoke... and remembered how quiet they are not when I am trying to teach sometimes. :-)

I refused to believe that this excitement could be linked to something evil - some right-wing fear-induced "sin" of my country. A country I am proud to live in. A country that chose change. Change that begins today.