[Oe List ...] Wishing that the spirit of Amanda's prophetic voice may be yours in 2022

[Linda and Milan Hamilton]

Wow, makes me both emboldened and trembling with my inadequate and inarticulate attempts to write something. She is my muse! So I say Amen! And Amen!

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> On Dec 31, 2021, at 5:56 AM, Judi White via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Beautfu. Thank you for the heritage we a have shared. Happy New Year. Judi White
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>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:43 AM Karen Snyder via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>> 'New Day's Lyric'
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>> --by Amanda Gorman, Dec 31, 2021
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>> May this be the day
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>> We come together.
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>> Mourning, we come to mend,
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>> Withered, we come to weather,
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>> Torn, we come to tend,
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>> Battered, we come to better.
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>> Tethered by this year of yearning,
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>> We are learning
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>> That though we weren't ready for this,
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>> We have been readied by it.
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>> We steadily vow that no matter
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>> How we are weighed down,
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>> We must always pave a way forward.
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>> *
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>> This hope is our door, our portal.
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>> Even if we never get back to normal,
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>> Someday we can venture beyond it,
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>> To leave the known and take the first steps.
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>> So let us not return to what was normal,
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>> But reach toward what is next.
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>> *
>> 
>> What was cursed, we will cure.
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>> What was plagued, we will prove pure.
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>> Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
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>> Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
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>> Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;
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>> Those moments we missed
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>> Are now these moments we make,
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>> The moments we meet,
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>> And our hearts, once all together beaten,
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>> Now all together beat.
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>> *
>> 
>> Come, look up with kindness yet,
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>> For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
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>> We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
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>> But to take on tomorrow.
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>> *
>> 
>> We heed this old spirit,
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>> In a new day's lyric,
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>> In our hearts, we hear it:
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>> For auld lang syne, my dear,
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>> For auld lang syne.
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>> Be bold, sang Time this year,
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>> Be bold, sang Time,
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>> For when you honor yesterday,
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>> Tomorrow ye will find.
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>> Know what we've fought
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>> Need not be forgot nor for none.
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>> It defines us, binds us as one,
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>> Come over, join this day just begun.
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>> For wherever we come together,
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>> We will forever overcome.
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