Care Package for Friday, Feb. 5, 2021

Poetry: Rainy Twilight by Evelyn ScottDim gold faces float in the windows,Subtle as perfume,Soft as flowers.Read More Song In My Head: Come Dance by Kat Wright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLjozjTbLgM Art: Seated Figure Bottle Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite …

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Black History Month Care Package for Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021

Poetry: You Are Who I Love by Aracelis GirmayYou, selling roses out of a silver grocery cartYou, in the park, feeding the pigeonsYou cheering for the beesYou with cats in your voice in the morning,Feeding catsRead More Song In My Head:I Am Her by Shea Diamond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zOOnvB7K8 Art: Amy Sherald’s Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces …

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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Saturday, Feb. 4, 1989

In the Top Ten: Armageddon It by Def Leppard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNFQw8VIvA On the Bestseller List: Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns Photo credit: amazon.com New In Theaters: Who’s Harry Crumb? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6-VeQ_KPk New In Comic Shops: The New Mutants #72 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: Beyond Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_k1xOB_arI Magazine Roulette: Outlaw Biker Photo credit: luchalibremania1.blogspot.com Zodiac/Horoscope: …

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Care Package for Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021

Poetry: The Empty Cup by Katharine Rolston FisherEvening at Occoquan. Rain pelts the workhouse       roof.The prison matrons are sewing together for the        Red CrossThe women prisoners are going to bed in two        long rows.Read More Song In My Head: Rise by Eddie Vedder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXQSRuLeSEM Art: John La Farge’s …

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Black History Month Care Package for Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021

Poetry: Lost and Found by Honey Bell-BeyEvery little black girl needs to take a trip tothe lost and found.Every little black girl needs to look throughboxes marked“rejected,”“abandoned,” “promiscuous”Read More Song In My Head: Lift Every Voice and Sing by Ray Charles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8 Art: Joshua Johnson’s Portrait of Adelia Ellender Photo credit: americanart.si.edu Quote: “Power concedes …

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