In 1970, 10-year-old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz as part of a fifth-grade assignment at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills, asking, “What makes a good citizen?”

Why can’t we all get along?

Lift your voice. Now.
Music by Jesse Welles

Lu Chekowsky
POV: A WOMAN WHO IS ALIVE ON EARTH IN 2026

Brenton Zola

At the center of all of this is not the doll. It is the human need to belong, to soothe, to be needed, and to feel safe.
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It is literally Hunger Games out here grocery shopping. Scared, suspicious people pushing pushing crippled carts. Every shopper for themselves!

Things are scary enough for us. We have a “before” context that sharply contrasts with it all. I feel for the young ones coming up in all this. This is their normal. They don’t have a felt sense of, although not perfect, of structural norms. How will they turn out?

It's been a extraordinary horrific week among a steady diet of horrific weeks. Hang on people. Take relief in your local life; your sanctuary, your creativity, your people, your pets. Hang on to them tight.

To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.

Amanda Gorman