Gaga, JLo, a couple who used to live in DC and now live in Westchester, cool. My favorite was Ella.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
A new dawn in America
Our national nightmare is finally over. Science and art matter again (or still).
Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse
The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history read “The Hill We Climb,” which she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen,” she says.
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
And this effort very nearly succeeded.
But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
It can never be permanently defeated.
When day comes, we ask ourselves:
Where can we find light
In this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.
Reading lines that echoed the theme of the inauguration, “America United,” she spoke of the possibility of unity and reconciliation.
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.
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