Signs of hope and love birds on Mercer Island
Photo credit: Marc Deaver
Jan 25th, 2021 Mercer Island Reporter: Signs of hope and love birds on Mercer Island
Inauguration Day. I’m listening to Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb” as I drive, thinking of my parents, and how proud they would be at this moment. We called them “the love birds.”
In 1948, when she was 20 and he was 25, they met at an engagement party for mutual friends whom my father had introduced to one another. The successful match was inspired after Dad was set up on a date with someone he deemed too tall to be his love interest.