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! Nancy Trask On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:01 AM Ellie Stock via Dialogue < dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Thanks for sending, Karen. Beautiful and inspiring!
Ellie :)
-----Original Message----- From: Karen Snyder via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: ICA Dialogue <Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; OE Community < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; all ica's <ica-network@ica-international.org> Cc: Karen Snyder <karen.snyder10@gmail.com> Sent: Fri, Dec 31, 2021 7:36 am Subject: [Dialogue] Wishing that the spirit of Amanda's prophetic voice may be yours in 2022
*'New Day's Lyric'* *--by Amanda Gorman <https://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Amanda%20Gorman>, Dec 31, 2021* *May this be the day* *We come together.* *Mourning, we come to mend,* *Withered, we come to weather,* *Torn, we come to tend,* *Battered, we come to better.* *Tethered by this year of yearning,* *We are learning* *That though we weren't ready for this,* *We have been readied by it.* *We steadily vow that no matter* *How we are weighed down,* *We must always pave a way forward.* *** *This hope is our door, our portal.* *Even if we never get back to normal,* *Someday we can venture beyond it,* *To leave the known and take the first steps.* *So let us not return to what was normal,* *But reach toward what is next.* *** *What was cursed, we will cure.* *What was plagued, we will prove pure.* *Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,* *Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,* *Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;* *Those moments we missed* *Are now these moments we make,* *The moments we meet,* *And our hearts, once all together beaten,* *Now all together beat.* *** *Come, look up with kindness yet,* *For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.* *We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,* *But to take on tomorrow.* *** *We heed this old spirit,* *In a new day's lyric,* *In our hearts, we hear it:* *For auld lang syne, my dear,* *For auld lang syne.* *Be bold, sang Time this year,* *Be bold, sang Time,* *For when you honor yesterday,* *Tomorrow ye will find.* *Know what we've fought* *Need not be forgot nor for none.* *It defines us, binds us as one,* *Come over, join this day just begun.* *For wherever we come together,* *We will forever overcome.*
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