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Laura Esckelson's avatar

What a balm this is as we enter the bluster of the strongman. So much to think about here this morning. The threshold between before and after. Accumulated losses. The swift transition into the unthinkable. I consider the praise of fragility as a form resistance. The sand mandala, not the bronze statue. As a former teacher, I love how you identified the challenge of preparing students for an inhospitable world.

I thought of the poem, Little Things by Sharon Olds, this excerpt:

"So when I fix on this image of resin

or sweep together with the heel of my hand a

pile of my son’s sunburn peels like

insect wings, where I peeled his back the night before camp,

I am doing something I learned early to do, I am

paying attention to small beauties,

whatever I have–as if it were our duty to

find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world."

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Maggy C. Bartek's avatar

I wish you would compile a year's worth of these into a book, a text, a guide, a helper. They're treasure, & treasured. Thank you!

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