“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” When Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter, and Bob Weir – otherwise known as the Grateful Dead – wrote those words 52 years ago, they perfectly described America’s tumultuous journey through the 1960s. The Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, the Kennedy and King assassinations, the …
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For Jenn Poetry: A House Called Tomorrow by Alberto RíosYou are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen –You are a hundred wild centuriesAnd fifteen, bringing with youIn every breath and in every stepRead more Song In My Head: Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI Art: Harrison Fisher’s Graduation Day Photo credit: pinterest.com …
To the Graduating Class of 2020,I’m not here to waste your time, so let’s not beat around the bush. This sucks. You’re not graduating from high school in the way you’ve spent the last dozen or so years anticipating. You’re not seated in an auditorium, gym, or park, your family, friends, and community crowded around …
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