Impressions from January 20, 2009

I wasn't there in person, but while I was getting ready to view the inaugural ceremonies on the living room TV, I decided I wanted to record the events with my camera anyway -- this inauguration was too important, too moving, too joyful; I wanted to preserve it in some way. So I was a tourist -- an excited American citizen -- in my own living room. My pictures of pictures are impressionistic -- pixels by their very nature seem pointillist anyway, and the images beamed electronically on January 20th are now deeply impressed in my own mind and the minds of millions. They are powerful testimony to and affirmation of a turning point for our country and the world, as Barack Obama -- a wise, egalitarian leader of deep intelligence -- takes office. Let us all hold him in the Light.