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January 21, 2021

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Amanda Gorman: The Miracle of Morning

Amanda Gorman has achieved many firsts, including being the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States at age 19. On January 20, 2021, the 22-year-old Gorman read at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. What follows here is a video of her reciting “The Miracle of Morning,” a poem written several years ago “when hurricanes, hate crimes, and deportations were some of the many crises in our headlines.” The poem now re-emerges during a pandemic, each line filled with words of hope for a golden morning. { read more }

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Watch or read Amanda Gorman’s powerful inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb,” and discuss it with different generations of people in your life today. What does it evoke in you? { more }

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January 20, 2021

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A Reset for Unprecedented Times

“We are currently living amid a planetary climate emergency, a global pandemic, uprisings against state violence upon Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples, and a failing economic system the world over. Pandemic lockdowns have forced major lifestyle changes: shifting consumption habits, realizing how deeply connected we are to each other and the environment, and focusing more on the non-material aspects of life for strengthening our well-being. Never before in modern society have we had to redesign our lives with such speed and magnitude: how we live them, how we connect with one another, and what and how we consume. This is precisely where Buen Vivir comes in. Buen Vivir represents a combination of respect and reciprocity, community, solidarity and harmony. The idea is far from novel.” More in this essay from YES Magazine. { read more }

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What is a “first step” that you can take today? Will you take it?

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January 19, 2021

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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

“As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?” { read more }

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Do something today in the spirit of honoring mutual flourishing. For more inspiration, check out this essay by Kimmerer, “Returning the Gift.” { more }

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January 18, 2021

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Creativity & COVID-19

“In some recent discussions with friends who are also creatives, I have heard a variety of responses to the question, ‘How has Covid-19 affected your creativity?’Some have been inspired to create new work. Others have spoken about a year of fallowness. It’s a term we rarely if ever hear in a culture devoted to–or better put, obsessed with–constant productivity. Take agribusiness: every acre and every creature must give maximum yield all the time, even though that is un-natural. Nature functions in cycles, and one part of that is rest, which leads to renewal. Traditionally, that was the way people understood cultivation: “And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof; but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow…” Mirka Knaster shares more in this thoughtful essay. { read more }

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Reflect on the question for yourself: How has the pandemic affected your creativity?

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January 17, 2021

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To Walk in Beauty Once Again

“Fragility sticks to everything alive like the quiet wetness of morning dew
in this global pandemic
as a doctor
I see this fragility
Threatening to swallow so much of what we love
like a large red blanket covering a small bed
and I cant unsee it.”
So begins this powerful poem by Sriram Shamasunder, a physician whose work takes him to the front lines in Navajo Nation. { read more }

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Learn more the HEAL Initiative– a program co-founded by Dr.Shamasunder– and their remarkable work in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions. { more }

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January 16, 2021

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Writers & Artists on the Influence of Barry Lopez

“In 2015 Barry and I were invited to do an onstage conversation at the Key West Literary Seminars. We loved the idea of it but hated the given title, and ended up talking on the phone for most of an hour, trying to arrive at a word that felt home-language to us each. The suggested word, spiritual, we felt utterly threadbare. Barry’s preference was reverence, a quality that ran deep in his life and words. But mine was not. We arrived, at last, at numinous. A word whose linguistic root is the act of nodding, a physical, embodied yes. What his life was.” So begins poet, Jane Hirshfield’s tribute to Barry Lopez. What follows is a compilation of moving messages from Pico Iyer, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds and several other luminaries, that shed light on a remarkable human being and his legacy. { read more }

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Here NPR offers excerpts from a series of interviews conducted with Barry Lopez over the years. { more }

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January 15, 2021

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Musicians on Kindness

What if kindness was a form of music, with its own rhythm, its own flow, its own song?” This engaging video points out the give and take of the whole human experience through highlighting music, with its reciprocal energy which inspires both the musicians and their audiences. The featured street musicians reflect on the power of music to make kindness contagious. { read more }

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As you go through your day, listen closely to the music around you: on the radio, in a store, or even a simple birdsong. How does it make you feel? Find a way to bring a little joy to someone through the gift of music.

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