SHARP SPARKLE
PART THREE
January 20, 2024
Coming soon
SHARP SPARKLE
PART TWO
Inauguration Day, 2021
Forty-two days ago, you picked a number.
Today, that number led you to a poem, one that’s been read at a past presidential inauguration.
Today is a new inauguration. A new poem will be read. Less beautiful things may happen, too. It’s been far from a beautiful time.
But for now, you have this poem. So sit with it, for a moment or two.
< a moment >
< and another >
Then, go back to your digital calendar of choice. Make an event for three years from now: January 20, 2024, 9:45-10am. Name it “Part Three.”
Drop the link to this page in, along with some notes that include today’s date and anything you want to write about the following:
What are you holding on to / That you can let go of / And replace with hope / At the start of this new time?
The intention is to respond around the state of our country. But you can do whatever you’d like.
Wait three years. Forget this ever happened.
If our digital calendars still exist in the future (and our country does, too), your device will remind you of how you felt on this historic, complicated, but hopefully still hopeful day. You’ll remember how you felt, and remember how you can feel again, if you commit to Part Four: spending the election year working at it.