I'm at my desk fighting tears today.

[M0rpheus]

The enormity of the last 24 hours is just catching up to me, this morning.
I woke to my alarm, smiling at my last thought before I went to sleep "Everything just changed, today".

My walk to the train was punctuated by people lined up at the newspaper truck as they added more papers to the box, because people were buying them as fast as they put them in. On my train, almost everyone had a smile on their face.

I generally don't discuss politics at work, because those divisions undermine the teamwork we have to maintain to get the job done. Today, we the formerly hopeful, speak without words. A look, a sly smile, the light in their eyes, says more to me today than I would have thought possible, yesterday.

The smile on my face will not go away. I still can't believe after all this struggle... That we now have a President who has an idea of what real people face, AND a president who is more like me, than any one prior.

I'm awestruck. No matter how much I hoped... How much I believed... I never thought I would see this day.

Thanks DU for helping make this front page possible.

(and for keeping me sane, for what seems like the last million years.)

[deaniac21]

1. Today the planet begins to heal.