{"id":446,"date":"2021-03-18T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:35:38","slug":"an-inspirational-voice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/february-2021-vol-502\/an-inspirational-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inspirational Voice\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&nbsp;Sherry Granum<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"p3\">The amazing Amanda Gorman, youth poet laureate in the US, stunned the audience at the recent inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice President of the United States, with the beauty and power of \u2018The Hill We Climb\u2019 \u2013 the poem she&#8217;d written for the occasion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449\" style=\"width: 904px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-18-at-11.10.03-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-18-at-11.10.03-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-18-at-11.10.03-AM.png 904w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-18-at-11.10.03-AM-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-18-at-11.10.03-AM-768x822.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Gorman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\">Her presentation is well worth multiple viewings: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wz4YuEvJ3y4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wz4YuEvJ3y4\"><span class=\"s1\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wz4YuEvJ3y4<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The poem ends with six lines Friends might find particularly resonant:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When day comes we step out of the shade,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">aflame and unafraid<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The new dawn blooms as we free it<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For there is always light,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">if only we\u2019re brave enough to see it<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If only we\u2019re brave enough to be it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Amanda Gorman<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>from \u2018The Hill We Climb\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>2021<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/february-2021-vol-502\/\">Back to February 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 502 \u2022 February 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Sherry Granum The amazing Amanda Gorman, youth poet laureate in the US, stunned the audience at the recent inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice President of the United States, with the beauty and power of \u2018The Hill We Climb\u2019 \u2013 the poem she&#8217;d written for the occasion.&nbsp; Her presentation is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/february-2021-vol-502\/an-inspirational-voice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Inspirational Voice\u00a0<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":341,"menu_order":194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions\/1293"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}