Poetry For 2026

A COLLECTIVE RESOLUTION FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026

Whereas we find ourselves in a time in which it is increasingly difficult to see the good in people, and

Whereas people suck but are also unspeakably beautiful, and

Whereas we all, for reasons of still having ice age brains, are more easily impacted by the negative than the positive even if the later far outnumbers the former, and

Whereas we are exposed to content that rewards the loud, the divisive, and the alarming (even when those things may distort reality), and

Whereas we live in an economy in which our attention is our currency, and

Whereas we can no longer afford the cynicism about each other which keeps us numb and scrolling, and

Whereas we are still hunter gatherers who need each other to survive,

Therefore,

Be it resolved that:

We the people of 2026 will look for beauty.

We will write down the good things about each other.

We will call our friends just to tell them what we love about them.

When it is we who suck, we will admit it and move on.

We will refuse to be manipulated into believing that we do not need each other.

We choose attention as an act of love—and of resistance.

Nadia Bolz-Weber