Sneezyone Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 This is a big loss for the country but also for my son who’s periodically asked after Congressman Lewis’ health. Ugh. 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 So sorry for your ds. I’m so sad tonight. We lost a really good one and he will be so missed. 💔 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Such a loss 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I salute you John Lewis! A true American hero. Bill 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibiche Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 This is a tough one. 😢 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 “Generations from now when parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind — an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time, whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now." — Barack Obama, on awarding John Lewis the Medal of Freedom 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam in CT Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Consistently calling us to our better selves. Rest in peace. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneezyone Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) “I happen to believe that the vote is sacred. It’s the most precious, non-violent right that we have.” —Congressman John Lewis I remember his acceptance of the national book award recalling how his civil rights journey was sparked by the refusal of the public library in Troy, Alabama to lend books to black Americans. This man was five years older than my dad. What a life. ETA: May we all find the courage to get into #goodtrouble. Edited July 18, 2020 by Sneezyone Typo 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 The March trilogy, by John Lewis, is a great addition to any homeschooler's library. My sons loved them. People are also working to rename the Edmund Pettus bridge after John Lewis, which would be a fitting memorial. https://johnlewisbridge.com/ 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 What a giant. Heaven has gained one feisty angel. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibiche Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 7 hours ago, LucyStoner said: The March trilogy, by John Lewis, is a great addition to any homeschooler's library. My sons loved them. People are also working to rename the Edmund Pettus bridge after John Lewis, which would be a fitting memorial. https://johnlewisbridge.com/ I was coming to post the same thing. Every household that can should have these books in its library. For those not familiar with March, it’s a graphic novel trilogy about the Civil Rights Movement and John Lewis’s place in it and it is brilliant. It’s an excellent introduction for children, but valuable for adults as well. I can’t recommend it highly enough. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_(comics) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 That was sad news to wake up to this morning. He was an amazing person. We've lost a giant. 😢 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Oh, no! May he rest in peace. I just borrowed Preaching to the Chickens through interlibrary loan. Wonderful, wonderful picture book about John Lewis's childhood. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam in CT Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I just linked this poem over on the other board. I've read it about 20 times already this morning. When Great Trees Fall Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLucy Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I had to tell my son last night. We have been watching Eyes on the Prize. He had commented while watching it, you could still have hope because John Lewis was still alive. It feels like we have lost more than one man. And it's true, a whole generation is passing. I feel like I should be standing at attention. Or pounding the floor with a cane and saying, like the John Adams character in 1776 (movie), "I say ye..." I say ye John Lewis. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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