Do not be daunted
by the enormity
of the world's grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work,
but neither are you free
to abandon it.
- -The Talmud
"Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems." --Naomi Shihab Nye
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the pen...
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