What a day! How are you all doing? Simply earlier than midday, Joe Biden was sworn in because the 46th president of the USA and IT FELT SO GOOD!

Kamala Harris was formally sworn in as the primary feminine, first Black and first South Asian vp; and Sonia Sotomayor, the primary Latina Supreme Courtroom justice, administered the vice-presidential oath. What a second.

Did you see 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman? She recited her lovely poem “The Hill We Climb,” which started:

When day comes, we ask ourselves:
The place can we discover gentle
On this endless shade?
The loss we supply, a sea we should wade.
We braved the stomach of the beast,
We’ve discovered that quiet isn’t at all times peace,
And the norms and notions of what ‘simply is’
Isn’t at all times justice.
And but the daybreak is ours earlier than we knew it,
Someway, we do it.
Someway, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t damaged, however merely unfinished.
We, the successors of a rustic and a time
the place a thin Black woman, descended from slaves
and raised by a single mom,
can dream of changing into president
solely to search out herself reciting for one.

Her supply was unbelievable — her sleek fingers, her stirring pacing. Michelle Obama wrote on Instagram: “Hold shining, Amanda! I can’t wait to see what you do subsequent. 💕 #BlackGirlMagic”

Talking of… MICHELLE!!! I at all times really feel so calm when she’s within the room. (And what a glance!) On Instagram, she wrote: “Proper now, I’m feeling extra than simply reduction at placing the previous 4 years behind us. I’m feeling genuinely looking forward to what’s to come back.”

How are you feeling right this moment? I’m full of feelings and data that there’s a lot work to do. On that word, we can be matching donations as much as $1500 to the NAACP, whose purpose is to push Biden’s administration to “create a Cupboard-level place centered on Racial Justice.” (Merely ahead your donation receipts to whats up at cupofjo dot com.) Thanks a lot, and sending the largest hugs your means.

xoxoxoxo Let’s discuss under.