Sunday was another lazy day. We enjoyed the morning, breakfast, then decided to drive to the local Barnes and Noble book store. AA bought the book Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare (Student Edition). She's enjoying reading it as it has plain English translations. I bought two books, first I am reading Pete's - Trust.
We ordered and picked up V-Pizza: chicken wings, Caprese salad and the Veloce Salad (spring mix, tomato, gorgonzola cheese, roasted red pepper, mushroom, red onion, carrot, creamy gorgonzola dressing) for AA. With two football games on this evening, we will be enjoying a slow Sunday.
Monday: MLK Jr. Day:
AA played in the Ponte Vedra Open at Marsh Landing, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. She had not played this golf course, so as I say, you're playing blind. You don't know where the hazards are, selecting the right club for the distance and layout of the course, just a feeling of a shot in the dark. She played 11 holes well, then on Hole 12 went four over, then two more holes with double bogeys. Still she played it, it was a challenge.
From Jack's Newsletter: In the “Elite Tour Girls” Division Jacksonville’s Madison Balaskiewicz took the top spot with a score of 80 showing why she is one of the twenty plus players on the NFJG TOUR Ryder Cup Team heading to Miami come April to take on the “Gold Coast Junior Golf Foundation”. This was Balaskiewicz’s second win this season and fourth since she has been on tour. Jacksonville’s Annabelle Mozingo (82) took the Silver Medal and Port Orange’s Tylar Ann Whiting (84) took the third spot.
I worked a few hours with Chuck at the ICT building, learning the D&D Initiative. After that, I stopped at Carolyn's and helped her chop vegetables for her homemade chicken soup. I came home and had lunch, washed dishes, walked Ginger, read emails and finally sat down with a cup of leftover coffee and read a few pages my new book - Pete Buttigieg, Trust.
Tuesday was a quiet day, I worked from home, attending a couple of APTIM on-line meetings.We watched: The Presidential Inaugural Committee will host a memorial to remember and honor the lives lost to COVID-19 in cities and towns across the country. A Washington, D.C. ceremony will feature a lighting around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. We are inviting cities and towns across the country to join Washington, D.C. in illuminating buildings and ringing church bells at 5:30 p.m. ET in a national moment of unity and remembrance.
Wednesday - INAUGURATION DAY!!! What an exciting event to watch on TV, the preliminary news coverage, the swearing ceremony with the wonderful agenda, who will ever forget Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Garth Brooks. And we remember what gracious out-going President Obama was in 2017.........
And women wore their pearls!
Harris attended Howard University as an undergraduate where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's oldest Black sorority. The pearls are a direct connection to her sorority, a symbol of unity and sisterhood for Alpha Kappa Alpha. “I equated the pearls to women (because) we go through a lot of things, but we still come out shining,” Aloaye, a 46-year-old veteran in Orange Park, Florida, said. “Pearls are every color, shape, size. It doesn’t matter. ... I just thought that was a beautiful thing.” When Hope Aloaye started a Facebook group to encourage women to wear pearls to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of the first female vice president of the United States, she didn’t realize that the accessory has a special significance to former Sen. Kamala Harris.
Aloaye told TODAY that she gravitated toward pearls because she sees them as an expression of female strength, not knowing that the sorority Harris joined in college, Alpha Kappa Alpha, has a similar mentality. It refers to its founders as the “Twenty Pearls” and calls its 290,000 worldwide members “pearls.” The vice president-elect has also been pictured numerous times wearing pearls in different styles. #ChucksandPearls
The proceedings will begin with an invocation by the Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan, a Jesuit priest who is the former president of Georgetown University and a close friend of the Biden family. Andrea Hall, the first African American female firefighter to become captain of the Fire Rescue Department in South Fulton, Georgia, will recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Amanda Gorman, who became the country's first Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, will read a poem she has written for the occasion called "The Hill We Climb." Like Biden, Gorman had a speech impediment that she has worked hard to overcome.
As is tradition, the Supreme Court's chief justice, John Roberts, will administer the oath of office to Biden just after the clock strikes 12. Biden will take the oath with his hand on top of his 127-year-old, 5-inch-thick family Bible, which will be held by his wife, Jill Biden.
Harris, the first woman, the first Black American and the first South Asian American vice president, will be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina member of the Supreme Court. Like Harris, Sotomayor is a former prosecutor. Sotomayor has experience swearing in vice presidents — she administered the oath to Biden as vice president in 2013. Harris will be sworn in on two Bibles — one that belonged to a close family friend named Regina Shelton and another that belonged to Thurgood Marshall. Harris has hailed Marshall, the country's first African American Supreme Court justice, as one of her heroes.
Celebrating America in the evening: The event is being hosted by Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, and Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington will introduce segments of the special, which will include "stories of young people making a difference in their communities." Scheduled performers include rock legend Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, John Legend, Jon Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake, Demi Lovato, Ant Clemons, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard. The inaugural committee said they will perform from "iconic locations across the country." The 90-minute telecast will also feature remarks from Biden and Harris.
From the agenda: President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will be sworn in on the West front of the U.S. Capitol building. After they take their oaths of office, President-elect Biden will deliver an inaugural address laying out his vision to defeat the pandemic, build back better, and unify and heal the nation. Following the ceremony, the President-elect, First Lady, Vice President-elect, and Second Gentleman will participate in a Pass in Review on the East front with members of the military. Pass in Reviews are a long-standing military tradition that reflect the peaceful transfer of power to a new Commander-in-Chief.
The President-elect, Dr. Biden, the Vice President-elect, and Mr. Emhoff will visit Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They will be joined by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, and President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Lastly, we watched the entire "Celebrating America", wonderful show with regular people, music and Tom Hanks as emcee.
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