I talked to my best friend, Nicole, yesterday.  She's a teacher.  She said that a student of hers, we'll call her Mary, wrote a letter expressing her gratitude for all Nicole had done .... specifically Mary said, and I paraphrase, "I may not remember all that you did for me, but I'll never forget how you made me feel.  I thank you for being nice.  But I thank you more for making me believe that anything was possible."  I get chills just thinking about that.  Nicole told her students our story, about how we banded together in high school to make it happen: we were accountable to each other to do our best in everything.  We supported each other when we fell, not just with kind words of encouragement - which mean alot - but with action, even if it meant that we had to carry each other's burdens.  And we made it together.  And I love her.  I've felt the way Mary feels about Nicole towards many people in my life, but never have I felt this way about a government official, civil servant or politician.  Obama has reminded me not to place my faith in lack and limitation, but instead to place my faith in what I want to experience, and my belief in the FACT that what I want to experience IS possible.  I am so thankful.  So very thankful.  And I am not the only one.  Yes, we can.... Yes I can... Yes... Yes...