Tango Dancers Unite

Neal Conan of Talk of the Nation asked listeners to share unusual ways they are getting to the inauguration this January 20, 2009.

Argentine tango has been my handle to inner peace. So I am arriving at the inauguration virtually by literally dancing. I am inviting my fellow tango dancers across the nation to unite and pass the torch for peace the same way, so that it will arrive in the form of a heart to heart embrace delivered to President-elect Barack Obama, in time for his  inauguration day. Who will deliver that final embrace is yet to be known but we will get it there, rest assured Mr. President.

We will be officially starting Sunday, December 28, at Belrose Theatre, a little tango hall in San Rafael, California. Each dancer will pass the tango embrace, a simple hug, to another who will not break the chain for the next twenty-four days. The best part is that even if a person doesn’t know about this chain, they are still passing the torch each time they hug a partner. We are starting here on the West Coast, and counting on dancers everywhere in the country (in the world, should you on foreign shores decide to join us) to pass the embrace until it reaches across dance floors, streets, neighborhoods and barrios, villages, towns, cities, states, rivers, and oceans all the way to the District of Columbia.

Even if you don’t dance tango, send an embrace east, north, south, or west in the name of love of our fellow humans and peace for all.

Make these hugs a beneficial form of Ponzi scheme and send them in every direction, up and down, sideways, in a very concentrated way until January 20, 2009.