CrankyBuddhist   the learning never ends …

One of the site’s readers, Emily Troutman, created this slide show with photographs that she created during last week’s inauguration celebrations.

This week I made my way around Washington, D.C. and asked hundreds of people to pick words to represent how they feel now, at the dawn of a new beginning for the United States. Participants chose from 26 words:

Alive, Angry, Anxious, Awed, Believe, Curious, Dancer, Excited, Grateful, Happy, Hopeful, Human, Humble, Jealous, Joyful, Love, Obama, Patient, Proud, Ready, Scared, Skeptical, Tired, Together, Wonder, Worried

Children tended to choose the words “Love” and “Obama” because they are easy. But happy was a close third. For the other participants, “Hopeful” and “Proud” won the day. People with family or friends chose “Together” to represent the importance of experiencing the inauguration with the ones they love.

Read more on Emily’s Blog.

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge

In less than 24 hours we will have a new President. In all of my years I have never felt the changing of the guard at all, let alone as strongly as this. It’s like we’ve been asleep for eight years. People are starting to wake up and look around. It’s like everyone is holding their breathe waiting for tomorrow, Noon EST, so that we can heave a collective sigh of relief and begin living again.

Here’s another celebrity filled video. I think it’s amazing that throughout the last year, everyone has come around to trying to think and act collectively. I don’t think videos like this would be being made if the other guy had won the election.

Not from YouTube but rather from Funny or Die. Hollywood steps out in questioning the validity of Prop 8.