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I want dirty feet. I want summers of cousins and aunts. I want dodge ball and Miss Mary Mack. I want jacks and marbles. I want fishing and eating baloney sandwiches on white bread. A sweet melancholia visits every summer and punctuates the losses that arrive throughout the year, year after year. We are all in mourning for those moments when freedom and joy didn’t have to be negotiated and when we were ignorant of our own happiness....

Dirty Feet I want dirty feet. I want summers of cousins and aunts. I want dodge ball and Miss Mary Mack. I want jacks and marbles. I want fishing and eating baloney sandwiches on white bread. A sweet melancho…

The context is a little hazy, but I was about 11 or 12 when for some reason I told my schoolmates about my father being a photographer. It might have been one of those “this is what my daddy does” moments. Quite casually, I said that my father worked for Jet magazine. “You lyin’,” was the response. Even after viewing his byline underneath articles and photographs in the magazine, often the “Beauty of the Week,” I was told that I had merely chosen to fib about that person because we had the same last nam…...

Being You Is Enough The context is a little hazy, but I was about 11 or 12 when for some reason I told my schoolmates about my father being a photographer. It might have been one of those “this is what my daddy does” …

Empathy emancipates. -- Amanda Gorman