<div dir="ltr">Thank you all -- Karen & Jim, John & Lynda, Judi, Linda & Milan, Ellie & Carleton, and the whole crew! Poet Amanda & all of you inspire me, and I am grateful. Happy New Year!<div>Nancy Trask</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:01 AM Ellie Stock via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:black;font:10pt Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks for sending, Karen. Beautiful and inspiring!
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Subject: [Dialogue] Wishing that the spirit of Amanda's prophetic voice may be yours in 2022<br>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:serif;color:rgb(242,101,34)">'New Day's Lyric'</span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">--by <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Amanda%20Gorman" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Amanda Gorman</span></a>, Dec 31, 2021</span></i><span style="font-family:"New serif""></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">May
this be the day</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
come together.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Mourning,
we come to mend,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Withered,
we come to weather,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Torn,
we come to tend,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Battered,
we come to better.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Tethered
by this year of yearning,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
are learning</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">That
though we weren't ready for this,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
have been readied by it.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
steadily vow that no matter</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">How
we are weighed down,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
must always pave a way forward.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">This
hope is our door, our portal.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Even
if we never get back to normal,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Someday
we can venture beyond it,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">To
leave the known and take the first steps.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">So
let us not return to what was normal,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">But
reach toward what is next.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">What
was cursed, we will cure.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">What
was plagued, we will prove pure.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Where
we tend to argue, we will try to agree,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Those
fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Where
we weren't aware, we're now awake;</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Those
moments we missed</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Are
now these moments we make,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The
moments we meet,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And
our hearts, once all together beaten,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Now
all together beat.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Come,
look up with kindness yet,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">For
even solace can be sourced from sorrow.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">But
to take on tomorrow.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We
heed this old spirit,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">In
a new day's lyric,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">In
our hearts, we hear it:</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">For
auld lang syne, my dear,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">For
auld lang syne.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Be
bold, sang Time this year,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Be
bold, sang Time,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">For
when you honor yesterday,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Tomorrow
ye will find.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Know
what we've fought</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Need
not be forgot nor for none.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">It
defines us, binds us as one,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Come
over, join this day just begun.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">For
wherever we come together,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><b>We
will forever overcome.</b></span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></i></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></i></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></i></div>
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