Corrie would celebrate today.
Corrie would say, “Let’s make art today.”
Corrie would want to go celebrate in the cities, and stick out her bottom lip when I would say, “No,” due to COVID-19.
For the first time on Corrie’s Season, I share “art” as the highlight instead of writing.
Rarely do I discuss politics, and I let my writing and art speak for itself.
But Corrie would say, “Mommy, what are we going to do that I like to celebrate? There is a woman in power.”
I created “Naomi’s Liberty Bell” for the girls gone too soon, like Corrie, who would celebrate dreams coming true.
I cannot begruge mothers who still have their daughters with them full of dreams.
The crack in the liberty bell does not mean that their dreams are vanquished. It means your daughters carry forward the dreams of our daughters.
“Naomi’s Liberty Bell” also honors the fact the president elect walked hard roads of losing, not one, but two children.
How could I remain silent when he spoke of his son, Beau, and quoted a hymn “On Eagle’s Wings”?
No matter what you believe, there is a power in the words “Make you to shine like the sun.” This is a hymn sung often in the little Methodist church in which I grew up.
There is something to a man sworn into office during his darkest hour. If he moves forward after the deaths of two children and his first wife, I can gather the strength within me, too.
“Naomi’s Liberty Bell” celebrates, rather than mourns, the dreams of daughters who will accomplish great things.
It honors the parents, who have lost, and will forever keep a cracked bell in their heart.
“Naomi’s Liberty Bell” is a work by Rebecca T. Dickinson. All pictures are copyrighted by R.T. Dickinson, 2020.
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