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Hello, Eye-Openers—Marshawn Camese and Ada Limón

Follow the Leaders—Elina Svitolina, Stephen Colbert, and Sherrilyn Ifill

Hello, Childhood—Nikki Giovanni

Dancing to the Music—Stevie Wonder and Elliot James Reay

Revelers in Joy

NASA’s Moonship and Hungary’s Democracy—Artemis II Crew and Dancing Voters

two full moons in May / we are all Hungarians / circling back for home

planet earth dwellers / forgive us our trespasses / we will right this ship

Marching Forward—Pete Buttigieg at Selma and Protestors Everywhere

Getting the Scoop—Aaron Parnas and Project Salt Box

Art for the Heart—“Sinners” and Olivia Dean sing, Mary Oliver laughs

bowing to beauty / oh-oh-oh, mm-hm-mm (hey!) / April’s a’flaunting

Buddhist and Baptist Walkers For Peace…Singing Protest Songs…Tilling Seeds of Love…Celebrating Puerto Rico…Piano Keys to the Sky

stay, Valentine, stay / No Kings rally end of March / strength grows in numbers

remember their names: Everlasting Poetry—Renée Good / Intensive Care—Alex Pretti

twenty twenty-six / heapings of heart and humor / full steam straight ahead

indie news for truth / songs and poems for beauty / lizard kiss for love

Hoagie and hardball no-hitters. Khanna and Grijalva no-quitters.

times are a-changin’ / turning the page on this year / more love and more joy

sniff November’s rose / march on for democracy / time for giving thanks

The same omens that alarmed Lincoln petrify us now. October 18th protests—November 4th elections—60 years of Neil Young. “There’s a full moon risin’ / Let’s go dancin’ in the light.”

lighthouse for exiles

Statue of Liberty glows

let’s keep her promise

Abraham Lincoln: “We must rise—with the occasion.  As our case is new, some must think anew, and act anew.  We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

Well-worth the time-travel hearing from 13th century Persian poet Rumi that “Your Laughter Turns the World to Paradise.”  A budding flower cuddles in the ground and “its hidden smile opens to a laugh that / lasts a lifetime.”  Like grateful athletes, we laugh whether winning or losing.  Love and laughter sing a duet: “I have a heart of sunlight.”

Judges hold the line. We the people come together. Bullies slither.

We love turnarounds. Steady as we go.

We’re present—together now.

Post a sign.  Ask a question.  Run for office. 

When Sarah Inama started teaching world civilization four years ago at an Idaho middle school, she hung a sign in her classroom featuring hands of different skin tones with hearts in their palms, highlighted by these words scripted in varying colors: “Everyone Is Welcome Here.”