If you want to feel better about today watch the video embedded in the link from this tweet:
Up until a few years ago, National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman struggled to overcome a speech impediment.
To practice saying the letter "R," she listened on repeat to one song — "Aaron Burr, Sir" from Lin-Manuel Miranda's historical opus "Hamilton." https://t.co/QeXOefXAWC
— CNN (@CNN) January 23, 2021
I am not, and never will be a poet, much as I wish that I was. But the power of words move me, but never as eloquently as Amanda Gorman makes possible.
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And Biden himself used to stutter, I gather. Message being sent there I presume, not that that makes me trust Biden..
Cicero and Demosthenes, considered two of the greatest orators of all time, both had to overcome stutters in the course of mastering their air.
I don’t think Amanda Gorman describes her speech impediment as a stutter.
She doesn’t
I apologise if I implied she did
I was suggesting common interest, not similarity