Thank you so much for all of the pictures and blog reads. We cannot tell you how much it means to us to get these kinds of personal links to something hopeful and proactive happening in the U.S. We see it in the newspapers, and read about it online, but there is nothing like hearing it from someone who was there.

Thank you as well to all of you who went and marched. I cannot speak to how effective the protests have been in the States, but they are certainly proving inspirational abroad. Countless people at the University of Auckland have taken time to stick their heads into my office since the November elections (and a half dozen more in the few days after the march) to tell me how relieved they are and how much more hopeful they feel now that “America finally seems to be coming to its senses.” It has been interesting and more than a little bit disconcerting to me to be seen as so representational.

At any rate, I am incredibly grateful to all of you that for the first time in a very long time I have not felt the need to be embarrassed of my accent.

So as we would say down under, “good on ya, mate!”