Excerpt from "Instead of AI" by James Crews

Let’s use our hands to do
real things—whisking eggs
for banana bread that rises
in its pan like a miracle,
the teeth of a serrated knife
cutting each perfect slice.
Let’s write our own sentences,
stringing together words
as they come, bead by bead,
to make a necklace that fits.

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When you wish someone would feel some compassion for what you're going through, this will help. https://poets.org/poem/self-compassion

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Excerpt from James Crews, "Community":

"maybe we too can 
join hands, make some 
new and sacred thing
that will save us all."

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You may need this. An excerpt from "Tenderness" by James Crews:

"That’s how tenderness works in us,

some heat rising up from beneath,

then spreading outward to touch

the lives of anyone who comes near—"

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Children are our flowers. "Let Us Grow" by James Crews asks us to let them grow in peace.

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