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Voices Of Inspiration, Then And Now
Written by Hope Fitzgerald

Greetings, Luminous One!
I think if the over-50 population were asked to name 5 of the most Inspiring individuals in modern history, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be on just about everyone's list.
And having celebrated his birthday last week, I'm sure he was on all of our minds... may we never forget how his majestic words lifted us all in dark times.
Decades later, we can wonder where to turn for such vision as the world today seems crowded with opinions but depleted on wisdom.
Fortunately, one exquisite voice from a new generation of eloquent wordsmiths, Amanda Gorman, carries Dr King's legacy forward in her own unique way.
I could think of no better way to Inspire us this week than to share one of her poems, so clearly reminiscent of the great man himself. Enjoy!
New Day's Lyric
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.
~~~
Much love and infinite blessings,
Hope
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