Joe Biden is 78 yo. Amanda Gorman is 22. She will be 78 in the year 2076.

[eppur_se_muova]

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Just a thought that struck me -- this is the embodiment of continuity. She may still be around in 2100. Both years sound like SF to many of us, but there will be people alive in 2100 who remember the Obama years, the awful 45 years, and the Biden years.

Our country's gov't shouldn''t look like a convention of old white geezers because the country doesn't look that way. Politicians are always talking about doing things for the sake of our children, and our children's children -- but we shouldn't need to invoke the children of the future; the future is already living among us, and if we steal from our future we steal from our neighbors.

But if you're an Uglican, you just say "Who cares about history ? I'll be dead.".

[frazzled]

1. Which will be the nation's Tricentennial

Think of it, 300 years.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. And one life could span one-third of that.

The past is closer than it looks.

[frazzled]

3. Indeed

My father lived exactly 100 years: he died on the very anniversary of his birth, a century later.

[Celerity]

9. John Tyler's (10th president, born in 1790) grandson is still alive (another died 3 months ago)

Harrison Ruffin Tyler




The 10th president’s last surviving grandson: A bridge to the nation’s complicated past

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/

[eppur_se_muova]

10. I remember seeing that on DU. Also, see my post #6. nt

[Celerity]

11. Interesting OP, I also hope I cleared up a poster's confusion in the thread.

[Ilsa]

4. Gorman, I believe.

She was incredible. I don't normally have emotional responses to poetry or prose readings. AG really touched me.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Mnemonic cut-and-paste error. :) nt

[Collimator]

5. Years ago, I read a little anecdote.

It was in Reader's Digest, which my mom used to get and I enjoyed reading as a weird teenager.

The story was told by a very respected journalist at the time. (Nope. Don't remember the name.)

He told of meeting a Civil War veteran during a Fourth of July parade when he was a child. When he shook the man's hand, he was beside himself with excitement at actually touching someone personally involved in an aspect of critical American history. He felt awkward at the time, trying to express what he felt, but the Civil War Vet put him at ease.

"I know just how you feel, son. I felt that way myself as a boy when I met one of the old fellas who fought in the Revolution".

The journalist pointed out that he had touched the hand of a man who had touched the hand of someone who was there at our country's beginning. Decades after reading this account, I don't remember the author or the exact words written. But the thought still moves me.

Today, thanks to Joe Biden and Amanda Gorman, I can once again envision such a profound moment happening in the century beyond this one. Because Democracy is a possibility when good people seek good for others besides themselves.

Goddess Bless America and crown thy good with Sisterhood.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Then there's this ...

https://democraticunderground.com/11631897

[Roland99]

8. I'd be 110. Never thought I'd see the tricentennial

I'm fine w/the 250th in 5 years

Will be amazing to see women like her become America's leaders!