Something About … A New Day?

[Shana A]

Something About ... A New Day?
Posted January 21, 2009

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/something-about-a-new-day/

But, for me, and oddly enough for the ten-year old boy who sat here with me then, there came a moment, a set of moments, that were the most stirring, the most eloquent and the most heart-rendingly poignant of the entire ceremony and the followingg displays of pomp, circumstance and gaiety of the day: the benediction by the Reverend Joseph Lowery.

This was the place I cried. For that short and eloquent prayer was for me the one thing that will live on as word for the day.

    God of our weary years;

    God of our silent tears. ...

This old man's words came thropugh the screen, the microphones and out across the National Mall like a flash of lightning, like a beautiful counterpoint to the convocation by Rick Warren (whose appointment so many of us in the LTBG community decried.) I have no idea anymore what Rick Warren said. I only recall parts of what Joe Biden and Barack Obama said. About the only thing I can recall clearly now beyond Reverend Lowery's prayer, is Chief Justice, John Roberts' inability to get right the oath of office as he administered it to the new President.

[NicholeW.]

I've found something very interesting about this blog-piece, at least so far. Three emails (none wished to post the comments) from cissexual women who can relate to the incidences of rape among transgender/transsexing women.

It's as though there's this tie that's available through shared terror and damage that might not otherwise exist. Of course I cannot know the backgrounds of those who have sent me the mails, but ... well ... it's kind of amazing. The bonds that hold humans together and help us to relate our lives to other lives that might seem very different indeed in other respects, appear to bridge distances that mere argument and appeal cannot bridge. Hmmm.

Nichole