<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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!<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 31, 2021, at 5:56 AM, Judi White via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Beautfu. Thank you for the heritage we a have shared. Happy New Year. Judi White</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:43 AM Karen Snyder via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#f26522">'New Day's Lyric'<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">--by <a href="https://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Amanda%20Gorman" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Amanda Gorman</span></a>, Dec 31, 2021</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">*</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></i></p>
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