The deep winter's freeze finally loosened its grip on the DC area yesterday. The mercury actually rose to near 40 degrees (F) and for the first time in days I heard birds singing and saw squirrels out scurrying around looking for food. The wind shifted from the northwest to the south for awhile, bringing moister, milder air with it. Good thing too! The entertainers at the Lincoln Memorial would have had a hard time singing, and playing violins and woodwinds and guitars and the like in the single-digit temperatures of the prior several days.
My favorite of the Lincoln Memorial Inaugural celebration performances was when Pete Seeger, and his grandson and Bruce Springsteen sang "This Land is Your Land," an old Woody Guthrie anthem for the masses. You can see it here. Restored to its original glory with all of the verses that Woody Guthrie wrote. It seemed appropriate. With hints that the people are going to be invited into involvement in government again. With indications that a lot of the invited are ready to take up that challenge.
The eight-year chill - the Bush freeze - is about to loosen its grip too. Tomorrow at noon we can sing out along with the birds. For all to hear. "This land was made for you and me."
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.