Julie Potiker brings you healing words and phrases from the inauguration including excerpts from the poem, "The Hill We Climb", by 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. Gorman presented her timely poem before the nation during the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry. A sea we must wade.

We braved the belly of the beast.

We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.

And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.

Somehow we do it.

Somehow we weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished..."

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