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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=gmail-css-38z03z style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'>Hi all here is something to be inspired by.<span class=MsoHyperlinkFollowed><b><span style='font-size:88.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#AB0613;text-transform:uppercase;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span></b></span><span class=gmail-css-1ljoi60><b><span style='font-size:88.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#AB0613;text-transform:uppercase;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>W</span></b></span><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>hen day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?</span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>We’ve braved the belly of the beast.</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it.</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>Somehow we do it.</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken,</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>but simply unfinished.</span><br><span class=gmail-css-38z03z1>We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one.</span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F6F6F6;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#121212'><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/20/joe-biden-inauguration-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-washington-covid-coronavirus-live-updates"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F6F6F6;vertical-align:baseline'><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/20/joe-biden-inauguration-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-washington-covid-coronavirus-live-updates"><span style='color:black'>'Never been more optimistic': speeches, songs and celebrations cap Biden's inauguration day – as it happened</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none;text-decoration:none'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.75pt;background:#F6F6F6;vertical-align:top'><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#C70000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/20/joe-biden-inauguration-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-washington-covid-coronavirus-live-updates"><span style='color:#C70000'>Read more<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F6F6F6;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#121212'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-css-38z03z style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit' id=gmail-sign-in-gate><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212'>And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine,<br>but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect.<br>We are striving to forge our union with purpose.<br>To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.<br>And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.<br>We close the divide because we know, to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside.<br>We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.<br>We seek harm to none and harmony for all.<br>Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:<br>That even as we grieved, we grew.<br>That even as we hurt, we hoped.<br>That even as we tired, we tried.<br>That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious.<br>Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F6F6F6;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#767676'>Advertisement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-css-38z03z style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212'>Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.<br>If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made.<br>That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare.<br>It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit.<br>It’s the past we step into and how we repair it.<br>We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it.<br>Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.<br>This effort very nearly succeeded.<br>But while democracy can be periodically delayed,<br>it can never be permanently defeated.<br>In this truth, in this faith, we trust,<br>for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.<br>This is the era of just redemption.<br>We feared it at its inception.<br>We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour,<br>but within it, we found the power to author a new chapter, to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.<br>So while once we asked, ‘How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?’ now we assert, ‘How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-css-38z03z style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212'>We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be:<br>A country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free.<br>We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation.<br>Our blunders become their burdens.<br>But one thing is certain:<br>If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change, our children’s birthright.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-css-38z03z style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#121212'>So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left.<br>With every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.<br>We will rise from the golden hills of the west.<br>We will rise from the wind-swept north-east where our forefathers first realized revolution.<br>We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states.<br>We will rise from the sun-baked south.<br>We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover.<br>In every known nook of our nation, in every corner called our country,<br>our people, diverse and beautiful, will emerge, battered and beautiful.<br>When day comes, we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid.<br>The new dawn blooms as we free it.<br>For there is always light,<br>if only we’re brave enough to see it.<br>If only we’re brave enough to be it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#274E13'>___________________________________</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p 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