You yourself must change it

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This stanza from a poem by Adrienne Rich, one of my favorite poets, was in the New York Times Magazine’s The Lives They Lived issue last weekend. It is powerful to me, as a reminder to act. To look forward. To not obsess about what I cannot change. To really think about things. To live life.

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