{"id":8669,"date":"2021-02-15T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T17:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2021-09-05T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T23:21:11","slug":"presidents-day-musicale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/lifestyle\/8669\/presidents-day-musicale","title":{"rendered":"Presidents’ Day Musicale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lincoln<\/a>It\u2019s a little over a year since Mitt Romney voted \u201cGuilty\u201d in the first Trump impeachment. A little less than a year since we began our COVID quarantining. It\u2019s been a pretty damn miserable time, and while the failure to convict Trump in his second impeachment is a disappointment and a grotesque miscarriage of justice, it\u2019s hardly a surprise, given the herd of Republicans with feet of clay.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s something that might be a bit of a lift\u2014although I confess it brings me to tears just about every time I listen to it. It\u2019s about a sad moment in our history, and yet powerfully depicts a time when we had a President we could be proud of, one who brimmed with empathy, and capable of sowing comfort rather than calamity.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a song called \u201cThe President Sang Amazing Grace.\u201d It\u2019s been around awhile, written by Zoe Mulford and showing up on her album \u201cSmall Brown Birds\u201d back in 2017, two years after President Obama went to the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston after the dreadful attack there that took nine lives. Joan Baez went on to cover it on her final studio album. I just ran across it on a terrific album Lynn gave me for my birthday, \u201cLong Time Passing,\u201d a tribute to Pete Seeger by the Kronos Quartet. That\u2019s the version here, sung beautifully by an artist also new to me, Meklit.<\/p>\n