January 2009

Salidor Sings: "The Gaze of God (I Should Like)"

Susan Salidor and Peter Buttitta have recorded an incredibly reflective piece, which can't help but offer some comfort as we think through the disarming stories of war and conflict that are being experienced daily in the Middle East.



Lyrics by Jay Rehak

More Inaugural Thoughts from My Voice

The inauguration of President Obama this week spurred more members of our social network, in addition to Gary Margolis, to submit their work. Here are some excerpts from two very different essays.

The first comes from Veronica Golos, "On This Inauguration Day, 2009":
On this Inauguration Day, 2009, just a day after the so-called Cease Fire by Israel on Gaza, my wish is this:

Inaugural Addresses and Presidential Poetry

We have a new curricula module ready for the historical inauguration of Barack Obama.

Raise Your Voice Benefit Concert

Join us on February 26 at Seattle's famed Triple Door as the voices of the Total Experience and Black Nativity Gospel Choirs, led by Reverend Pat Wright and accompanied by Josephine Howell, help to begin our fifth year.

Peace Tags for Valentine's Day

One of our sponsors is Peace Tags. They generously donate 100% of their profit to Fisher House and to Voices [Education Project].

As you think of giving a Valentine's gift this year, consider giving a gift that gives in two ways: to your loved one and to Voices.

Blinding Light: A Reader Submitted Poem for the Inauguration

After reading our latest newsletter, Gary Margolis sent over his poem in honor of President Barack Obama's inauguration today.

Blinding Light

January 20, 2009

The sun was too bright coming
off the snow in Nineteen Sixty-One.
Frost couldn’t read what he had
written, the wind stiff, in January,

bracing, his neighbor in New Hampshire
would have said. The wind curled