Cutie, King, and the New President

I'm documenting Cutie's experience with the change, the dream and hope we all feel.Last week they acted out Rosa Park's bus experience at her Hebrew school. Cutie was Rosa and was told she had to move to the back of the bus. A Policeman came and she immediately started to cry. She took it very seriously. In the car ride home she told me about Martin Luther King who had a dream that it doesn't matter what color people's eyes are it just matters if they are nice.

Yesterday we were watching Martin Luther's "I had a dream" speech on TV interspersed with Obama's speech. She dropped her Barbies and came to watch TV with us. She was entranced. She wanted to know why there was no color during the speech. I did a poor job explaining how pictures get on the TV. She then compared "The Wizard of Oz" with no color in the beginning and then when they landing in Oz there was lots of color. She's 4.

As long as we believe there is a wizard who can make things better we will be fine. Or perhaps we should go back the gold standard. (Book, The Wizard of Oz is really about the economy changes that where happening at that). Commodities, yellow brick road, brains, heart, courage, the fed behind the curtain...)