finish line in sight / excitement for the future / keep pushing forward....
nine long trauma years / Kamala Harris rising / joy repairs our hearts
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speeches songs poems / DNC plans push forward / haiku trip with me. now 5-7-5 / counting fingers, tap-tap toes / wings for your rhythm.
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Showing no discernible ego, Coach Walz takes the field to win her presidency. “It is the honor of a lifetime to join Kamala Harris in this campaign. I’m all in. She’s showing us the politics of what’s possible. It reminds me a bit of the first day of school.” Their devotion to country. Their no-nonsense common sense. Their wellspring of joy.
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Is this small-town news? Yes, Newbern, Alabama. Is i more than a small-town story? Yes, it’s as big as the United States. Is this a baseball story? Yes, two Hall of Fame ballplayers. Is it more than a baseball story? Yes, it is the story of the United States. Do we face problems in the United States? Yes, incalculable problems. Are there solutions? Yes, once shock and despair give way to action and hope.
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Two worthies of Ken Burns’s documentary camera: Simone Biles and Alvin Bragg. This democracy deserves our whole hog, sleeves rolled up, skin in the game commitment. You deserve poetry and music. rock the house tonight / all colors touching our hearts / panoply of song.
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Let’s remember. Let’s go to New York. Meet two dreamers, Alicia Keys and Hakeem Jeffries. Let’s dream. Let’s dance. Let’s pretend (not really!).
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four-legged Luna / watches her namesake show off / best moon pie dog treat. The wind hints at rain so we see grandpa off and head for home, its windows “brazen in the setting sun.” pansy faces wink / as four Beatles sing their song / “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
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Gloria Johnson, Letitia James, Bayard Rustin...Trust, Activism, Determination. "Nothing that’s easy is worth it / Nothing that’s worth it is perfect, yeah.” Yeah. Hearing someone say “I would take it all for ya.” Yeah. Saying to someone “I would take it all for ya.” Yeah. "Let It Be Me" sing the Backstreet Boys.
Yes, bravehearts, Harry Dunn and E. Jean Carroll. And two more for Valentine’s Day. Exquisite sweetness. Two songs—two songstresses. Back then—right now. Comeback players—heart massagers.
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From samba and tapas to voting rights and college hoops. Maybe a poem now. Two? Perhaps a song. Dos? I think I see you. Quaffing our tumblers, here’s to beauty’s sweetest sweep.
Read MoreTomorrow presents this year’s shortest period of daylight. Bit by bit, each day the light will last longer. Fortunately, sometimes we can stare directly at headlights on high beam, warmed by their glow. High-beamers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss brighten the darkness. These Georgia election workers exemplify the best of this country.
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Thank you to sweet sifters Andy Barkan and David Hogg. Thank you, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Thank you for the laughter vaccine. Thank you Jimmy Buffett. Thank you, Democracy.
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What courage Ana Lucia musters. When will her heart heal? Where will that American dream take her? How unforgettable, seeing her love outlive death.
Indulge in some August grandeur. Listen to music by Sinéad O’Connor and Lady Gaga. Goal! Eighty-thousand screaming fans filling a stadium, millions worldwide wildly cheering in front of televised broadcasts, athletes creating a global community. The mettle of three brilliant women stabilizes the country: Vice-President Kamala Harris, Prosecutor Fani Willis, Judge Tanya Chutkan. They define and daily refine the meaning of public service.
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Tennis fans tune in Saturday for “Breakfast at Wimbledon” to feast on the Women’s Championship played on famed Centre Court. White lines and tennis clothes, fresh strawberries and cream, worn grass and pageantry. Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova often met on this Saturday—Evert a 10-time finalist with three titles, Navratilova a 12-time finalist with nine winner’s trophies. This duo wins their sweetest match right now, however, fighting together against a nasty foe.
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Take another bow, Tina Turner. Examining all of her life offers the only way to appreciate her gutsy triumph. Her songs and shimmy will last. And her life, as a herstory textbook, will last.
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Gun control activism grows fast, especially among the young, throughout the country. Smart. Let strong-willed sanity suck thoughts of gun violence from our psyches. Now, pivoting to riveting, hat doffs to two people with great ground games. Plus, heart tugging thanks to bluebirds and snails.
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Meet Grace Linn. Root for Autumn Peltier. Hail the Tennessee Three. Capping off today, Brad Mehldau makes elegantly simple piano-sense of “I Am the Walrus.” Here’s to playing the keys of life as melodically. Pansies. Us. Melodies-in-the-making.
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How about the liberating rewards that come from seeking both this and that? Why not make the educational goal to innovate and incorporate course offerings, rather than reduce and eliminate them? Ramp up our imagining and reimagining, starting over and creating, expanding and evolving, experimenting and adjusting, listening to others and challenging ourselves.
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Progress never stops. Love always wins. Poets heat February. Musicians rock love. Sun—hold that note—sun….
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finish line in sight / excitement for the future / keep pushing forward....
nine long trauma years / Kamala Harris rising / joy repairs our hearts