Omer 2025 Day 45

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Day 45: Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman
Tiferet in Malchut, Compassion in Leadership

This children's book really demonstrates why Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in US history. She is able to distill big concepts, like compassion and difference into a compelling story. The illustrations by Loren Long are really the key to bringing Gorman's words to life. 

The book is a call to action, not just for kids, but for us all, to be leaders in our communities. Gorman's character in the book demonstrates leadership not just by doing the work of improving her community, but by bringing others into that work with her. Their leadership is rooted in compassion for the people around them. They see litter and are compelled to clean it up. They see people who are hungry and are compelled to feed them. They see outcasts and are compelled to welcome them into the community. In the book, it seems so obvious that those are the right steps, but we all know how easily we walk past these things every day without acting. 

Especially in our current political climate, I look to this book for a vision of a world with compassionate leaders, with people who thought of others and let that guide them into action.