Youtube link: A Heartfelt Note of Thanks to the Medical Community English: In every battle, there is that one braveheart, In every victory there is a head that wears the crown, In this battle, YOU are the soldier, And You that Alexander! For We ‘the ordinary’ have been ordered to stay indoors! You have been called to the battle-field And we know that you will go, for you have made a promise That you may not have a medicine for every ailment, Still you will not break humanity’s hope in you. Christ-like, you will definitely ‘touch’ every ‘leper’ You will offer him/her some medicine, and plentiful blessings. We will never know your pain sitting inside our homes, You have homes too, we will forget often. Yes, we will often forget, That even your kids need home-cooked meals And that you should also go home every once in a while. Sometimes, there will be casualties under your care, And other times, some cures will take a very long time, f...
AMANDA GORMAN: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/amanda-gormans-inauguration-poem-the-hill-we-climb/ Did I resent that she was an Ivy Leaguer---did it sound too cliche? A bit...and then my knee-jerk reaction gave way to the larger picture of what Miss Gorman means for us all-A young dynamic woman of color on a national podium!!!!!! And what words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ‘The Hill We Climb’ 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 find herself reci...
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