When my son graduated fifth grade, the children stood in tiers and sang “We are the World”. The song came out in March that year, 1985, and most of us had never heard it. We adults watched and listened in tears.

I thought I could share the video here but if you go to Youtube you can find it and listen. I’m inspired and lifted each time I do. U.S.A. for Africa: We Are the World.

I’m also with the words of John O’Donohue from his poem “A New Beginning”.

You can find the whole poem online but it ends with these words which make me wonder if we’ve become complacent. Some of us have been accused of being “woke”, but maybe not woke enough.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; 

Soon you will home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

I just read the book Orbital by Samantha Harvey. It allows us to orbit the earth in the International Space Station and even more appreciate the preciousness of this earth we share.

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

– Mary Oliver