President Biden inaugurated

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office Wednesday in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, where, just two weeks before, a mob of domestic terrorists had tried to prevent Congress from certifying the presidential election. Biden focused his heartfelt inaugural address on the need for Americans to work together on the multiple crises facing our nation: COVID and the economic calamity the disease has caused, racial disparities, and the global climate. In a sense, the election of Kamala Harris as the first Asian American and first woman elected to national office, showed Americans are willing to be inclusive and want to heal the wounds of disparity. Also, widely praised at the event was the poetry of twenty-two-year-old Amanda Gorman, who urged us all to “leave behind a country better than one we were left…” and “raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.” An inspiring way to begin the next four years.