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May 2024 Update. How do we save America from itself? How can we use the forces of good for real change? How do we transcend the comfort and seeming safety of our tribal loyalties to embrace the value of the “different,” the “other?” To treat all life, including the Earth itself, with dignity and respect? Expand economic self-interest into collective thriving? Transform past and present hurt into hope and healing, and empathy into reparative action? Is there a unitive power that could soften our interactions and help to cure our divisiveness—whatever our persuasions and affiliations? Inspired by the events of our time and the works of visionaries such as Valarie Kaur, Parker J. Palmer, Van Jones, Mark Nepo, Amanda Gorman, Kaitlin B. Curtice, Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many others, Different Ships seeks answers to these and more. Reflecting Terah's work as an author, poet and lyric writer, Different Ships employs song lyrics and commentaries to call out the personal and societal hurts that have long been shredding America’s soul—while inviting each of us, in our unique ways, to help cultivate more humaneness in our humanity at every level of life. Because who we each are, so our society becomes.<br/><br/>EXCERPTS OF REVIEWS IN BOOK:<br/>Different Ships is more than a book; it’s an odyssey...of heart, soul and song that challenges, comforts and catalyzes. As profound as it is poetic ...the lyrics are raw and gut-wrenching in moments, poignant and cathartic in others. A clarion call for heart-seeing and a plea for humanity to welcome the symphony of our differences, while recognizing the singular heartbeat that unites us all. —Didi Lund (BrightBugMarketing.com)<br/><br/>Engaging and deeply moving, Different Ships, Same Boat has the feel of a poetic reporting—powerful, raw in places...a kind of dogged pursuit of an existential ‘solution’ beyond our unreliable truths. I haven’t come across anything that speaks so eloquently to our American moment, and is yet so timele