It all began with Amanda Gorman, who was 22 when she shined at Joe Biden's inauguration earlier this year. While she was new to most of us, she had in 2015 published a poetry book, The One for Whom Food is Not Enough . Plus, in 2017 she had already become the first National Youth Poet Laureate. That introduction to the general public catapulted her to an even bigger stage, the pregame ceremony for Super Bowl LV , where she read a poem honoring the heroes of the pandemic: So while we honor them, it is they, every day, who honor us. In the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics around a quarter of the athletes representing the U.S. were Black. You can expect about as many in Tokyo . While Simone Biles and Sha'Carri Richardson led the list, Simone is too famous to qualify for this posting, and Richardson was not selected for failing a marijuana test. However, black females dominate the U.S. basketball and track teams. One of them will attain interna...
New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.