"'Ignorance is bliss'. Ignorance is this - a vine that sneaks up a tree. Killing. Not by poison, but by blocking out its light." -Amanda Gorman, Vale of the Shadow of Death or Extra! Extra! Read All About it! [Transcribed from audio].

"[Gated]" - All 6:38 minutes of it.

Beautiful prose. Shorter in length than my usual books, but so much to sit with and think about that it took me a few weeks to get through it all. Closes with "The Hill We Climb", which made me return to Amanda Gorman's Inaugural delivery to hear it, and see it, another time.