Krista Tippett: How does it feel? How does it feel to imagine deploying your imagination to live as one would want to see a life? As you move through your days, try on calling yourself a social creative, a social artist, even if only to yourself. And live into that.

Consider these words of Jericho Brown. “I’m hoping that for more people, instead of looking at the things that mean to hurt us, that we can look at each other, that we can hold up in the opposite direction some poetry, that we can hold up in the opposite direction some song, that we can hold up in the opposite direction some belief we have in some community project, some play, something that we are doing, some child that we love. And I think if we can concentrate on the best of one another, on the best of the best of us, if we can really make the world we want to live in, even if it’s only in our heads or in our own homes or in our own cars on the way to work, then we’ll be doing the beginning of something new.”

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