Even as the problems of the world grow greater, Carla Carlisle commits to being an ‘affirming flame’ of hope.
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened land of the earth…
— W.H. Auden
You might remember those opening lines of September 1, 1939, the poem W. H. Auden wrote the day after Nazi Germany started the Second World War…
