We were out walking along Connecticut Avenue here in the nation's capital at about 12:30 P.M. and suddenly we heard and saw a cacophony of horns honking, banners waving, flags flying in the breeze out of sunroofs, and a whole procession of cars parading down the avenue past the Zoo and on, presumably, to downtown DC as thousands cheered.
It's been much too long since we had something to cheer about like this. Even election night was muted because of the Congressional results. But now it was as if all the pent-up enthusiasm--absolutely no curbing allowed, Larry David--was suddenly released and exploded in a merry pandemonium.
As with every time one gets loaded, there'll be sober second thoughts in the morning, but today is just a great beautiful--70 degrees and sunny here--day for celebrating. Reminds me of the ancient ad slogan from my much much younger days: "They said it couldn't be done..."
Sermons and soda water tomorrow, comedy tonight! Everything is forgiven for Joe--and yes, over the years, there was plenty. But everything changes--now and then. I just received a note saying that the Year of Living Dangerously is over. As one who lived for a while in Indonesia, it really was like that here. Only it was for four years.
Skip Happy Days Are Here Again, even if they are. I like Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead!!
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