We fuel our spirits – compose and perform songs, write and recite poetry, present paintings, drawings, sculpture, and dance to lift our voices, share inspiration, hopes and vision.
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SONGS
“Join ICE” – Jesse Welles
https://youtu.be/61I4hlig78w
“Lovingkindness” by Chava Mirel
Metta Meditation: A Complete Guide to Loving-Kindness | Lion’s Roar
“Shed a Little Light” – James Taylor
Did you know… In the 1940’s Norwegian students and teachers wore paperclips on their lapels – a quiet form of resistance to Nazi Occupation, a symbol that, “We are bound together.” Listen for that phrase in Taylor’s song.
We Believe in Freedom / Ella’s Song: Sweet Honey in the Rock
If I Had a Hammer by Peter Seeger & Lee Hays (1949)
performed by Peter, Paul & Mary (1962)
POETRY
Photo of Fresnel Lens Lighthouse Light, late 1800’s from Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD – Six equal panels, 62″ high, 1,984 lbs.
Dreams Before Waking by Adrienne Rich
Excerpt:
“What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other’s despair into hope? –
You yourself must change it. –
what would it feel like to know
your country was changing? –
You yourself must change it. –
Though your life felt arduous
new and unmapped and strange
what would it means to stand on the first
page of the end of despair?”
ART
“Countless Souls” ink on clayboard, 8x 10, 2021 by Nancy Wolitzer
“Love Endures” ink on clayboard, 7 x 5, 2021 by Nancy Wolitzer
More coming soon!