A New Day in the USA!

Our dog, contemplating the promise of a new day... or just looking for deer!

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1-20-2021. 

Today, the United States inaugurated Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States and swore in Kamala Harris as Vice President. The ceremony went off without a hitch. The speeches, music, and poetry were uplifting and held a promise of hope many of us have not felt for four years; particularly in the last two weeks. Regardless of who we may have voted for, it is time for America to heal and unite. We can celebrate that our constitution held fast and our democracy remains intact.

Photo of my tv screen: President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden walk from the motorcade to the White House.

While recent current events have been unfolding, I've been reading a young adult novel called The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani. It is a 2019 Newbery Honor book, told as letters/diary entries written by a young half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl to her deceased mother. She shares her perspective of the events in 1947 when India became independent of British rule and separated into two countries: India and Pakistan. Hindus and Sikhs would occupy the new area designated as India and the Muslims would live in Pakistan. This meant the uprooting of many families, sometimes violently. Many perished in the migration.

When I closed my Kindle last night, I thought about what would happen here if Americans ever split up our country. Can you imagine being uprooted and told you had to move to a different place; just based on the way you voted, your religion, or the color of your skin? It is too awful to even contemplate.

World's Toughest Job.

Once again, inspiration for my topic today has come from Facebook.  

My daughter shared the following video on Facebook yesterday, with a note telling me that she loves me and that I am "literally the best."  Of course I got teary-eyed.

Watch the video from American Greetings, and you just might too.  

(This is my first time embedding a video into a blog post - so I hope it works!)

World's Toughest Job

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This post is for anyone who is a mom - or has ever had a mother.

Now I need to show MY mom this video, and tell her that I think she is "literally the best"!  (Actually, I probably won't need to show her, because it is likely she will have already seen it.  She has always been supportive of everything I do - so of course she reads my blog!)   

Thanks Mom - for everything.

Feel free to share this message with your mom too - now, or perhaps as a gift on Mother's Day! 

( I promise a future post about the specialness of Dad's!  They are pretty awesome too!)

What is the toughest job you have ever had?