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Voices and Verse
Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, took the nation's breath away during the presidential inauguration. She expressed what many were feeling, and the reaction for me was visceral. Tears welled in my eyes as that beautiful woman in her canary yellow coat and red head band, gave voice to my heart. The conclusion to her poem, The Hill We Climb, continues to resonate. "For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."
These are anxious times. Working at The Ivy, seeing and talking with you, brings me comfort during the day. I do what I can to avoid triggers before bedtime: no doom-scrolling, no reading saved NYT and WSJ editorials, no listening to too thrilling thrillers from my Libro account.
I’ll let you in on a secret: I subscribe to The Baltimore Sun for its obituaries. Not for their literary quality and not for potential real estate listings. I look for and hope not to find your names or thumb-nail high school portraits.
For the past six months, without Ivy foot traffic, if I haven’t seen you on my daily constitutional around Lake Roland, at Eddies, Grauls or Trader Joe’s, I haven’t seen you. I’ve been left to my own devices peeking through slitted eyes at The Sun’s documentation of Baltimore’s dwindling population, aka the obituaries, dreading a find, hoping for a miss.
I enjoy sharing good news to brighten our difficult days. What I’ve found: the Towson Chamber of Commerce and the Towson Creative Partnership selected local artists to reclaim graffitied flower boxes to beautify their downtown. A small luminosity, I know, but I take pleasure in its cheering, rosy glow.
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