Inspiration: Amanda Gorman
I usually don't talk about politics too much here on my blog (I reserve that for my Twitter account...LOLZ), but January 20th was such a special day in US history that even though I'm Canadian, I was deeply moved by the Inauguration Day ceremony. The Inauguration poet laureate Amanda Gorman and her poem The Hill We Climb was so powerful and inspiration that I thought I'd share it here. When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We've braved the belly of the beast We've learned that quiet isn't always peace And the norms and notions of what just is Isn't always just-ice And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it Somehow we do it Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished We the successors of a country and a time Where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to