Special Inaugural Moment
Well, there were a lot of them, many tied up with having a president who can speak, but there was personal, private pleasure in the musical number played by the quartet of violin, cello, clarinet and piano, as a part of the ceremony.
I've had a special fondness for "Simple Gifts" for a long time. Those Mythopoeic Society members among my LJ friends may think of "Dare, then, the measure of the Dance," the Society anthem. Those of you who participated in Tower Mountain (I know there are at least two of you) may remember my using some of that anthem's lyrics as an epigraph for "The Dancer at the End of the Line." What you may not realize is that I always associated that tune and its original lyrics with New Hope.
And wasn't that what New Hope was all about? Starting over, hard work, unity and strength in diversity. That's what I was trying to say all along, that sang in the quartet, that was in our new President's speech.
Joy.