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SOL: Languish

6/23/2015

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'Now that the Union is no longer in danger, 
now that the North and South are no longer enemies: 
now that they have ceased to scatter, tear, and slay each other...'

What is now, when now is not yet?
Now, we divide. Now, we stake a claim. Now, we wave flags of dissent.
Now, in blood-shed wider than the Mississippi, the red sea does part.  

Not yet.  

Yet, do we face our visceral hatred of ourselves and humanity.
Yet, do we acknowledge history, so brutal, ever-present and boiling over yet again.
Yet, not yet.

Now.

'let us strive on to finish the work we are in; 
to bind up the nation's wounds; 
to care for him who shall have borne the battle'

A past incomplete. A series of not yet.  
Hold on. Sit tight. But no one has made it right--yet.

A present void of now.
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Tara link
6/23/2015 04:25:03 am

I wish we as a nation can find a way to move forward in race relations, so that these nine beautiful souls' death will not have been in vain. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address keeps running through my mind: a new birth of freedom...

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Dawn link
6/27/2015 06:11:27 am

Both of your SOL posts are poignant. I love that they are both VERY different and highly personal. I noticed you said you are trying SOL because if you are going to teach then you must be. Are you a writing teachers? I look forward to reading more of what you have to say.

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Keisha link
6/29/2015 02:30:34 am

Thank you so much! Yes, I teach 8th grade ELA. I'm learning about myself as a writer as I am opening myself up to sharing. Scary and fun at the same time.

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Dawn link
6/29/2015 05:52:44 am

Me too! I hope you'll come check out my new blog for teachers. I've been writing about exactly that - how bloggin is scary, and fun, and makes us better teachers because we experience the feeling of being new at something like our students do.

All the best,
Dawn




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