EPISODE 231 JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS…AND LORI KEY SINGING ‘AMAZING GRACE’ JAN. 19, 2021
alan skeoch
Jan. 19, 2021
THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL
A patient sitting alone in our hospital, as the Covid 19 pandemic unfolded…
Students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Canada…”a pyramid of hope”
NURSE Lori Key from Detroit, Michigan. “On my shift I was asked to sing”
THE NIGHT BEFORE JOE BIDEN BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Sometimes pictures and words just come together. As if there is an unseen hand
seeking harmony over chaos. That happened to night as we watched and listened to
the Covid 19 memorial service in Washington.
Who could help but be moved when Detroit Nurse Lori Key burst forth with Amazing Grace?
The whole service was done in the presence of the incoming President of the United States but…BUT…
done in the complete absence of the narcissism of the outgoing president whose name I have
forgotten.
Earlier in the day I was combing through my digital pictures in search of a mining photo when
up popped the Lincoln Memorial and a rather unposed picture of a Grade Ten class we
took down to Washington from Parkdale C. I. years and years ago. Kids with the faces
of many lands. Canadians who were idealistic enough to look to Washington as an example
of good but a nation with an Achilles heal. We ran our fingers along the Viet Nam war memorial…
understated monument that it is. One man stood there crying.
And our kids did something on impulse…an act of unity that we hope will be the
legacy of President Biden. The kids built a human pyramid. To do so everyone must
work together…must share the load. And when that happens the pyramid can
be capped. What a powerful symbol this day…the eve of good things we hope. If only This eve
of darkness today will bring a better day tomorrow.
“We can but hope that good will be the final goal of ill.”
alan
