“When you're in a very quiet position,when you're remembering, when you're savoring an image, or when you're allowing your intellect calmly to leap from one thought to another,that's a poem.” Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness” has traveled around the world. She grew up between Ferguson, Missouri, and Ramallah,and Jerusalem. She insists that language must be a way out of cycles of animosity. She’d have us notice “petite discoveries” that embolden us to choose human nourishment over division. “Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things.”
Source: thetakeaway.org