Feeling really emotional...

Same here. Watching Harris being sworn in really got to me. The poet laureate was incredible as well... one of the highlights.

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Same here. Watching Harris being sworn in really got to me. The poet laureate was incredible as well... one of the highlights.

Yes!! I made it a point to write down her last two lines:

There is always light
if only we are brave enough to see it.
There is always light
If only we are brave enough to be it.
— Amanda Gorman

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poet laureate

She was amazing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/i...ds-the-hill-we-climb

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For the first time in a long time, the sun was shining bright in Chicago! Let the light shine in all the dark places uncovered these last 4 years....

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Same here. Finally, a woman in high office, Amanda Gorman and am realizing now, a weight and stress lifting.

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In my Japanese class, I taught students the word 感動 (to be moved) and told them how moved I was to see the swearing in of VP Harris.

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I’m a little sad that all the sh!t that’s been going on since the election feels like it’s overshadowed some of this. I don’t know about you all, but I’m wishing for a super boring 2021.

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I realized how much I've been enjoying the lack of drama and chaos with Trump off Twitter. No more Sturm und Dreck.

Add my vote for boring.

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I’m a little sad that all the sh!t that’s been going on since the election feels like it’s overshadowed some of this. I don’t know about you all, but I’m wishing for a super boring 2021.

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The whole day was joyous. I am so happy his picture won’t be in the media every day going forward.

The nightmare is over.

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While Joe Biden gave his inauguration speech on Wednesday afternoon, a lone man in a uniform kneeled at the grave of Biden's son Beau Biden at St Joseph on The Brandywine church in Greenville.

Why I took the photo at Beau Biden's grave that is going viral

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Wow.

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Wow.

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