Poetry: The Hill We Climb by Amanda GormanWhen day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learnedthat quiet isn’t always peace. In the norms and notions of what just is isn’t always justice.Read …
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Care Package for Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021
Poetry: Hope. by Alice Dunbar-NelsonWild seas of tossing, writhing waves,A wreck half-sinking in the torturous gloom;One man clings desperately, while Boreas raves,Read More Song In My Head: Here Comes the Sun by Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gMsdNQSUM Art: Freeman Gage Delamotte’s Hope Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to …
Care Package for Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021
Poetry: The Optimist by J.W. HammondWho would have the sky any color but blue? Or the grass any color but green?Or the flowers that bloom the summer through Of other color or sheen?Read More Song In My Head: Kangding Qingge (Old Timey Dance Party) by Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVAvCRXmYI Art: …
Care Package for Monday, Jan. 18, 2021
Poetry: Dream Variations by Langston HughesTo fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Read More Song In My Head: Up To the Mountain (MLK Song) by Patty Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHW6Hy_OVc Art: Boris Challapin’s Martin Luther King Jr. Photo credit: npg.si.edu Quote: “Every man must decide whether …
Care Package for Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021
Poetry: YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON! by Sasha Debevec-McKenneyA prison is the only place that’s a prison.Maybe your brain is a beehive – or, better:an ants nest? A spin class?Read More Song In My Head: Underground Dream by Son Volt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtWVNnjv3uM Art: Adriaen van Ostade’s Reading the News at the Weavers’ Cottage Photo credit: …
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