“Seismic.”
“Seismic” is how the pundits described Barack Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic party’s nomination for President of the United States.

Shaken free of my cynicism is how I feel right now.
I experienced this history with Twitterfriends and my mom on Twitter. Simultaneously I was instant messaging my oldest friend, who is in all ways except biology my “sister,” and who was at Mile High Stadium. And I was also on the phone with my dear husband who is in Europe on business; we watched together. I cried less than I thought …

Forty five years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I have a dream speech” and changed America. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, one man with a vision exposed America’s abandonment of “justice for all” and pushed basic truths into the light. Dr. King’s dream, that all people would be judged “on the content of their character,” proved so beautiful, so clear and so powerful, that it still echoes intact through the endless, cavernous debates about America’s soul; and probably will continue to for all time. …