<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for sending, Karen.  Beautiful and inspiring!
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<div>Ellie :)<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><font size="2">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Karen Snyder via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
To: ICA Dialogue <Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; OE Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; all ica's <ica-network@ica-international.org><br>
Cc: Karen Snyder <karen.snyder10@gmail.com><br>
Sent: Fri, Dec 31, 2021 7:36 am<br>
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;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:serif;color:#F26522;" class="yiv7802783783">'New Day's Lyric'</span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783">--by <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Amanda%20Gorman" class="yiv7802783783"><span style="color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Amanda Gorman</span></a>, Dec 31, 2021</span></i><span style="font-family:New serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">May
this be the day</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
come together.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Mourning,
we come to mend,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Withered,
we come to weather,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Torn,
we come to tend,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Battered,
we come to better.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Tethered
by this year of yearning,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
are learning</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">That
though we weren't ready for this,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
have been readied by it.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
steadily vow that no matter</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">How
we are weighed down,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
must always pave a way forward.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">This
hope is our door, our portal.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Even
if we never get back to normal,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Someday
we can venture beyond it,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">To
leave the known and take the first steps.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">So
let us not return to what was normal,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">But
reach toward what is next.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">What
was cursed, we will cure.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">What
was plagued, we will prove pure.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Where
we tend to argue, we will try to agree,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Those
fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Where
we weren't aware, we're now awake;</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Those
moments we missed</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Are
now these moments we make,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">The
moments we meet,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">And
our hearts, once all together beaten,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Now
all together beat.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Come,
look up with kindness yet,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">For
even solace can be sourced from sorrow.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">But
to take on tomorrow.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">We
heed this old spirit,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">In
a new day's lyric,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">In
our hearts, we hear it:</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">For
auld lang syne, my dear,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">For
auld lang syne.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Be
bold, sang Time this year,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Be
bold, sang Time,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">For
when you honor yesterday,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Tomorrow
ye will find.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Know
what we've fought</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Need
not be forgot nor for none.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">It
defines us, binds us as one,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">Come
over, join this day just begun.</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><b class="yiv7802783783"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783">For
wherever we come together,</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></b></div>

<div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt;" class="yiv7802783783MsoNormal"><i class="yiv7802783783"><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;" class="yiv7802783783"><b class="yiv7802783783">We
will forever overcome.</b></span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia, serif;" class="yiv7802783783"></span></div>

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