Joyce Amen

(she/her/hers)

Kalenda Maya.

“All will be well, we say; it is a habit, like the rising of the sun, / For our country to prosper; who can prevail against us? / No one.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Weary my hope, of ebb and flow; / Weary my pulse, of tunes of woe; / My trusting heart is weariest! / I would—I would, I were at rest!” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“O Edward, my dear son! learn to think lowly of

Thyself, as we may all each prefer other—

‘Tis the best policy, and ’tis our duty.” — William Blake

“I have hugged and kissed every first day of spring for the last thirty years. And in reply its thousands of leaves tremble! What a life is ours! *Doesn’t anybody in the world anymore want to get up in the

middle of the night and
sing?*” — Mary Oliver