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"What if the mightiest word is love?"

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Kristyn Miller
Feb 05, 2024
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This week, I'm thinking about love. 

Do you know Elizabeth Alexander? She's a poet, and among many other wondrous accomplishments, she was Barack Obama's inaugural poet in 2009. She wrote and performed Praise Song for the Day.  If you haven't read it, you might find it uplifting.

I love so much about this poem, but mostly I love this question that she pos…

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