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It may be appropriate that I would write again today.  I want to write more and about various things.  I want to find my voice and refine it.  So let me start with a subject that I’ve felt much about lately.  Hope.

I write this while I’ve been organizing my finances from ownership of a home in partnership these last five years.  It has been a great blessing for me.   I have seen the great opportunities and ramifications of home-ownership.  These past years have allowed me to feel responsibility and purpose.  It has allowed me a great prosperity.  

Recently I decided to purchase the same house from my business partner.  I did this in the beginning of october.  I had many reasons why I wanted to keep this house.  Most of which are due to my financial position in the world.  It made more sense to buy the house than sell and part ways.  I now feel differently about homeownership.  Mostly the feelings are of a great weight upon my shoulders.  Again, this comes from my current position in the world.  

Some of this position comes from the cutback in hours of where I work not two months after I take on sole-proprietor ownership. From the places that I would normally rely upon for extra income experiencing a “freeze” in hiring.  People who would move on in their lives are staying put.  My chance for advancement has not been prescribed.  I’m starting to struggle to have a good night’s sleep.  

So how humbling to watch the presidential inauguration today.  From a place where it would not normally be seen, hope is found.  I want to point on some of the things that were said today, but I want to do it with a transcript of the Obama’s speech in hand.  I am presently watching as Obama sees Bush off in a helicopter.  Now standing with Joe Biden and their significant others.  I won’t say how I feel about Bush.  I won’t say how I feel about Obama.  I will say that it is sad that it requires a time of crisis for we as a people to come together.  I can’t imagine the thoughts going through Former President Bush’s mind as he passes over the white house looking back.  Not to mention Obama’s thoughts regarding what’s ahead.

This is my point.  The road ahead it hard and we can all feel that.  But at least there is hope.  At least there is a light.  Some may not see it that way.  I offer this thought though.  I have been brought up to believe in progress.  Partly that comes from my Mormon background.  The thought of eternal progression.  We as a human race have progressed in so many things the last century but it feels like the places that we haven’t progressed in many places that need progress.  If half of what Obama promises happen,we will start that progress.  I’m ready.  To quote Stephen Sondheim’s charecter Bobby, “I’m ready.”