I listened to James Taylor (with John Legend et al) sing that song via Youtube this morning - a day after the live Washington D.C. performance.
When Stevie Wonder's video also popped up, singing "Higher Ground" (with Usher and Shakira), I burst into tears.
Mum and Dad really loved Stevie Wonder's music. I was a trippy hippy when James Taylor became famous. Neither they nor I, in those days, ever imagined the U.S. would have a Black President in our lifetimes.
That I can live through these times in middle age, and they to have just missed it by a few years, is a bittersweet, heady time.
So much to live for.
My parents couldn't live this, but they taught me to live free even when they couldn't.
I stand on their shoulders.
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