The incoming administration...

I woke up this morning worried, a little anxious, a little scared. I've been waking up like this for a while. I know the origin of it and I know that I need to take action to resolve it, but feel scared about the consequences of those actions. When you tear away the masks, the drywall, the veil, the simulations you call a life you come to this point where you have to own up for your actions, take responsibility for the consequences, move beyond the question in your head of did I really do that or have I really been like that, and say this is who I am.

Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young commented on The Colbert Report after Obama's victory the people in this country "rejected fear and they decided they were going to have faith in America." I feel the same way about my life. The only path forward that allows me to breathe, blossom, and flourish is the one that rejects fear, the worst case scenario fear, of trusting another person, of failure, of rejection, of getting hurt, of the circumstances that life throws at each person. I know these fears were there when I was young and continue to be there because of tragedies that have befallen those people, because they believe I guess that having the fear somehow protects them and in order to warn me against taking too big a step into the unknown. But being so afraid also paralyzes those that practice this. They are too scared to take a step in any direction. I have seen it and continue to witness it with my own eyes. The next generation becomes the catalyst for the previous generation. As I write this Barack Obama is speaking in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration in Washington D.C. I leave you with the line that struck me the most from his speech today.

"Our future is our choice and that if we could just recognize ourselves in one another and bring everybody together...Democrats, Republicans, Independents, from the north, from the south and east and west, Black, White, Latino, Asian Native-American, gays, straight, disabled, not, then we would not only restore hope and opportunity in places that yearn for both, but maybe just maybe we might perfect our union in the process."