When We Find Ourselves in the Place Just Right

The inaugural ceremonies were running a bit behind today. What was so carefully orchestrated to have president Barack Obama take the oath exactly at noon, when he officially became president, instead had him become our first black president as a quartet of the most talented musicians in the world played an air based on this Shaker hymn:

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free,

'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,

And when we find ourselves in the place just right,

'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gain'd,

To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd,

To turn, turn will be our delight,

Till by turning, turning we come round right.

One day after we celebrate Dr. King's achievements, less than 50 years after we received his call to join his dream, just over a hundred since Lincoln freed the slaves, we've come 'round right.