Releasing the Imagination

We cannot create what we can’t imagine.
We cannot create what we can’t imagine.
We cannot create what we can’t imagine.
We cannot create what we can’t imagine.

Okay, Lucille Clifton, yes! I hear you. I see you. I am thinking of your words.
Thank you.

We cannot create what we can’t imagine.

Right now, I am feeling the strength of all the possibilities that can occur when school reopens.
All of the things that were not serving students before that do not need to carry over into this new year.
This has been a theme with me for a long time.
All the people who have spoken before me about the ways to move forward in the world.
I used to dislike the phrase don’t reinvent the wheel because I felt it was an excuse for people to maintain the status quo.
In the last year or so, I realized I agree with that phrase…when it concerns listening to the voices of the foremothers and forefathers who have walked paths before us in a just and equitable way.
I don’t want to reinvent the wheel from those who have FOR YEARS shared blueprints for how to love and educate and protest and understand and care and forgive.
From those who give us reminders about life’s possibilities.

Possibilities that seem most clear during my favorite times of day–dusk and dawn.
When imaginations run free

We cannot create what we can’t imagine.