Feel Good

Welcome to the White House Mr. Obama, soon to be President Obama. I for one am very happy to see this moment arrive and I thank you for serving us as I know you will–in giving us your best in what you believe is our best interests. That’s all we can ask of you.

As for the rest of us–Barack Obama won his upcoming presidency, a presidency to which the whole world looks with baited breath, on a message comprised of two words:

Hope & Change

The challenge for the coming year, the call to action, now falls to us–as citizens, as family and household members, as lovers and friends, as human beings–is to find ways to harness hope and enact change in our own lives.

Can we heed this call as more than just a rally cry? Can we heed it as an oath? A contract to give no less than we expect of Mr. Obama these coming 4 (and dare I hope, years?

This can be a transformative period for each of us as individuals, for America, and for the world. But only if we each take the courageous responsibility to keep the candle of hope lit and dedicate our days and nights to the kind of change our children can be proud of.

Happy New Year one and all.

The list started last week of Classic Feel Good Songs for helping you pick yourself up off the ground, dust yourself off, and shake - shake - shake your booty. In fact, that sounds like a perfect track to start us off, again in no particular order:

11.  “Shake Your Booty” - KC & the Sunshine Band

12. “Blue Skies” - Irving Berlin

13. “Greatest Love of All” - Whitney Houston

14. “We Are the World” - Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie (songwriters)/USA for Africa (performers)

15.”All Night Long” - Lionel Richie

16.”Rhythm of the Night” - DeBarge

17. “Smile” - Nat King Cole

18. “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now” - McFadden & Whitehead

19. “You’ll Never Walk Alone” -Rodgers & Hammerstein (songwriters)/Elvis Presley (performer)

20. “Holiday” - Madonna

Add these 10 Classic Feel Good Songs to your iPod. In fact, why not start a Feel Good Playlist beginning with these 10 songs and the first 10 from last week? Then every day could be a little more of a holiday (or at least have a little more holiday in it).

10 More Classic Feel Good Songs: 21-30 coming next Friday.