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Austin360 blogs > Out & About > Archives > 2009 > January > 28 > Entry

Obama Day Memories 8

By Michael Barnes | Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 11:10 AM

Austin word-spreader Karen Frost, a former DC resident, remembers:

The energy in our nation’s capital was so light, I think there was a moment at the Lincoln Memorial concert when Bono was singing “In a City of Blinding Lights” that the town actually started to levitate.

That said, I think my favorite moment was Monday morning while sharing breakfast in a polished wood booth with my boyfriend and a childhood friend of his at an historic Washington establishment, Old Ebbitt Grill. Sitting in a booth next to ours were three men in the back nine of life dressed in an exceptionally dapper way — three-piece dark suits — and the feather in each man’s hat matched the color of his tie and pocket square.

Upon exiting our booth and applying the multiple layers of sweaters, scarves and gloves necessary for warmth while walking around our nation’s capital, I chatted with them … and it was the smiles of my new friends that touched my soul to its core. It was the life’s journey behind those smiles that generates this foundation of the hope, change and joy overwhelming a town often draped in skepticism, not just a city, but a nation levitating in blinding lights.

Send your Obama Day memories to mbarnes@statesman.com.

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