My plane landed on Monday. It got to freezing on Wednesday.
Last night, at a friend of a friend's opening of beautiful architectural photographs,
another friend said he thought the US Airways jetliner that lost power in both engines and landed safely in the icy Hudson River on Thursday, was a good luck charm.
Like a four-leaf clover.
"You can feel it in the air," he said, "a sense of good fortune or celebration."
Barack will be sworn in this week and officially "in the house!" as of Wednesday.
I started this illustration of him for the LA Times in Trieste,
and finished it in NYC.
