Sarah Kay

Well, I think large systemic fires cannot be put out by individuals, but individuals can be responsible for offering what they have to offer.

The poet Eve L. Ewing has this beautiful call to action, which is to always be teaching someone and learning from someone.

And so to ask yourself, what do I know how to do that I could teach someone else how to do?

We often put education in only formal settings, but learning is lifelong and happens outside the classroom all the time.

It happens everywhere.

It happens in your community.

It happens with your neighbors.

It happens with your nieces.

What are the things you know how to do, how to see, how to explain, and how can you teach people what you know?

That's something you uniquely are qualified to do and can offer.

And then always also trying to learn from other people what they can uniquely teach you.

I think that's something that feels actionable and focusable.

Okay.

Well, an easy one is there's two epigraphs at the

One is a quote from the poet Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoy, and it comes from her poem that the whole title is, On this, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we reconsider the buoyancy of the human heart, which is one of my favorite poems.

And you can find a video of me reading it online.

That's a poem that I revisit multiple times a year.

Hmm.

the poet and writer Hanif Abdurraqib has a story in one of his books where I think it's in There's Always This Year, where he talks about getting to meet a famous astronaut.

And he got to ask one question.