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EarlG

(21,894 posts)
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 11:23 AM Apr 2021

Good Day DU (April 16, 2021)

Today in History: April 16

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The Friday Question: What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read, seen, or listened to this week?

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Today's milestones: Congratulations to the following active DU members!

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Good Day DU (April 16, 2021) (Original Post) EarlG Apr 2021 OP
a poem markie Apr 2021 #1
Thank you, EarlG. And congrats to all. niyad Apr 2021 #2
What's so good about it? Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2021 #3

markie

(22,755 posts)
1. a poem
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:17 PM
Apr 2021

KINDNESS
by Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.

niyad

(112,435 posts)
2. Thank you, EarlG. And congrats to all.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:39 PM
Apr 2021

The most interesting thing that I have read this week is about the stash of old-growth mahogany that will be used to help repair some of the physical damage to our Capitol.

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