daw aung san suu kyi.

Yesterday was one of those moments where I could feel myself standing in a moment of history. Aung San Suu Kyi came up to the Capitol to accept her Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. I have written about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi before (see a previous post here) and she has long been one of my most admired people. I have long put her on my list of five people in the world I would want to meet (I even bought her book again last week and it is sitting on my bedside table!). And while I didn't meet her yesterday, close enough. By fortune, I ended up escorting someone into the ceremony and ended up with ticket to stay in the Rotunda. It was beautiful and inspiring and more.

In light of the past week with violence abroad and bickering at home, this was one of those moments that should remind us that we are missing the forest for the trees. Her life and her work is just too much to be true, and yet, there she was as graceful and eloquent and as kind as I had built her up in my head to be. Just astounding.

With light streaming in from the roof and sitting on the stage with Hillary, Pelosi, Feinstein, Boehner, McCain, and Laura Bush, who would have thought it would be possible and that she would finally be accepting her medal in person, in the oldest democracy in the world as a democratically elected representative. It really is too much to believe and yet there it was, undeniably true!