For a multitude of reasons, this post from 2012 has been on my mind all week. Perhaps it is because I am once again reading and scoring AP essays (from home this year), or maybe because I love reminiscing about the beautiful city of Louisville, but I think it has more do with the need for civility in our discourse. Regardless of what ‘they’ are doing, I tell myself, we must continue to face the day with empathy, find our joy in creative outlets, and grant kindness where it is needed most. We must remain the country that our forefathers lived and fought and strived to be, but even more so, because we must now expand their vision to include all people. Read on my dear ones. Perhaps my words will encourage you, as you wake to yet another new day, to do so with more than hope that integrity will be restored before long.