one task in creating a culture is to reclaim what one ought to have learned but that somehow went by and was lost. - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

However difficult, weary, or frightening, there is only one way to go: forward. But singing.

I think we are entering a time when we need inspiration and vision. We need fresh voices. This means we need people to feel that what they have to say is welcomed, not that they're going to get dumped on the second they open their mouths. We need to create a sense of permission.

What the writer must value-the small life, the daily life, the significance of the individual consciousness and experience-are exactly what war violates.