Recently, I passed the 12,000th day I’ve spent alive. Had I the forethought to have planned better, I’d have done something celebratory. And perhaps I will for dinner or something.
I’ve been marking every 1,000th day since 10,000. I stumbled across a website that does it for you and you might find this more interesting than your own birthday…especially since it takes nearly three years to log a thousand days.
There is something different about America today. Something substantially different. Subtantially.
That’s the word — “of substance.” What we’ve experienced today is personally moving, and the best is yet to come as it’s so obvious that the President is ready to go to work.
I have had many moments today, of absolute joy about Barack Obama’s inaugural ceremony.
If you weren’t able to see or hear President Obama’s speech today–even if you did–I encourage you to give it some time. It will be well spent.
You can listen to it here. And I’ve uploaded a PDF transcript, along with my annotated comments about the speech, for you to follow along. It truly bears a second and third review.
Written by Jon Favreau, who is quite dialed into the literate and eloquent Obama, I believe there are a few phrases in there that we’ll be quoting.