We had one of those moments last Friday.\u00a0 During our conversation about happiness, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — we know her as Sandy — stopped us cold with this poem:<\/p>\n
Questions<\/span><\/p>\n Where are we going?<\/p>\n When birds sing to one another, are they looking for melody or harmony?<\/p>\n I’ve never been the one with answers.<\/p>\n How is it that our eyes betray us?<\/p>\n What does tomorrow bring?<\/p>\n Just questions. Enigmatic, urgent, smoldering questions.<\/p>\n But this, this is a world of answers:<\/p>\n where to go, what to do, how to get rich quick –<\/p>\n the degree to make you slick<\/p>\n the title you want to hit<\/p>\n the right dosage for your sick.<\/p>\n Well, I’ve forgotten about the ready-made bullets in that gun<\/p>\n because for me, not knowing is half the fun<\/p>\n It’s the uncertain moment before a first kiss<\/p>\n It’s trying to remember if your seatbelt clicked<\/p>\n It’s the ride.<\/p>\n And I don’t really know about this world full of answers<\/p>\n But I think I’ll hold on to my questions<\/p>\n Because if not knowing is half the fun<\/p>\n Then inventing the answers on a bed of dew drops is the other<\/p>\n I’ll show you the color of my love<\/p>\n or at least I can try<\/p>\n but maybe in that case, two makes better than one.<\/p>\n I just ask that you leave your answers at home<\/p>\n because to be honest, I don’t really care about where we’re going.<\/p>\n I care about who we become along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had one of those moments last Friday.\u00a0 During our conversation about happiness, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — we know her as Sandy — stopped us cold with this poem: Questions Where are we going? When birds sing to one another, are they looking for melody or harmony? I’ve never been the one with answers. How is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}