Let it be.  It's done.  President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I congratulate him and am proud of all of us.

Just stop the fighting, people, just stop it now.  What's the point?  To prove your opinion is better than theirs?  Absurd.

I might be simplistic; I am perhaps childish, at best.  I believe that honors should be endowed to those that are humbled by them.  I believe that recipients of prizes should be grateful.  And I believe that those who awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama knew he would be both.  Even more ... that , just maybe, he would take it to mean what it does.  What is that?  Don't you know?

Volumes of words have been written since the notification, and I have no desire to repeat them in depth or otherwise.  They obviously speak for themselves.  It really doesn't matter if we wind ourselves up in a ball or fight to release ourselves from the fiber - we are still Americans.  Or am I dreaming again?

So let's remember what matters.  Let's remember what our country means.  Let's get past the stun-moment of the day and contemplate the importance of tomorrow.  It just might make a difference, and it just might make the United States, and it's President, worthy in the eyes of those who still don't quite see the possibility.

But it's really nice that most do.  It's really amazing that we're back, that we're better.  And by "we" I mean all of us, every single one.  We're not all the way there, we're not even echoing our promises.  Still hollow at best are we, still shouting from the rooftops.  With no one to listen. 

Ahhh ... take a breath. 

Imagine that.  We're finally listening.

So are ....