Sing in Celebration of Your Race

March 11, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the effect of ethnicity on one’s personality:

Sing in celebration of your race,

The anonymous composer of your song,

Passionate provider of your grace,

A host to which you cannot help belong.

Take a day to sing of who you are,

Rejoicing in the choice of what must be,

In gratitude for what, beyond the bar,

Chooses in dark joy one's history.

Know the lineaments of ancient lore

'Ere you feel and act, and know not why.

Stories long forgotten lie in store,

Destined for revision by and by.

All you are and do is not by chance,

Yet you may face your partners as you dance.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race