"Here" has always been one of my favorite of Grace Paley's poems, not least because I think it captures the way she was able to balance so many facets of a full life - mother and grandmotherhood, activism, marriage, teaching, writing. When I think about becoming someone that I'd like to be, I think of Grace and the very full life she lived as an example.

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