My goodness, what a day! I teared up numerous times during the inauguration, most often in response to the close-ups of the people in the crowd ... they looked like America in their diversity and they were so uplifted in their hopes that this was truly the start of a new era.
After the inauguration, I drove up to Mesa Verde for some Mesa Verde Museum Association business. The Abajos were clear on the horizon, to the west beyond Cortez (just last weekend we were southwest of those mountains!). Nothing was clear to the south, except the ocean of pollution hanging in the lowlands in the northern San Juan Basin below Mesa Verde, pierced only by Shiprock and the two smokestacks that were contributing to that sea of emissions. So, our wonderful natural beauty is still here, but the threats to it are real and tangible. One of the last-minute rules the outgoing administration tried to push through and pulled back from at the last minute would have loosened the rules on emissions from power plants near national parks. There is much to do yet in this area.
Last night we drove to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College in Durango. Getting home after 11 p.m. is not our customary pattern, but it was a great concert. The opener was Corb Lund and The Hurtin' Albertans (I was amused that Lund had duct tape over part of the opening on his guitar; duct tape is a national joke in Canada). Lund congratulated us on our inauguration and the crowd responded loudly.
The headliner was Sam Bush, whom I had never heard before but is popular in this area, has been interviewed on KSUT before. Wow; those guys wore me out! Really high energy, fast-fingering bluegrass, as well as tunes from other genres. During the show, they played a version of the national anthem ... probably closer to the Jimi Hendrix rendition than what the Marine Band would have done ... and it really fit the occasion.
When he came back for an encore, Bush commented that it was a great way to end an historic day. I agree! tv
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