I know I’m on the heels of a new school year when Elizabeth Alexander greets me with a huge hug and a smile, telling me that I’m giving her a certain “Zora Neale Hurston mode.” I ask her why, and she tells me it’s the headscarf - one of Zora’s looks. Presently, I’m loving crowdancin’ Zora. She’s silly and perfect. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston writes that “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” I don’t know which of the two this one will prove to be, but here’s to EA, Zora, the impending conversation …

I know I’m on the heels of a new school year when Elizabeth Alexander greets me with a huge hug and a smile, telling me that I’m giving her a certain “Zora Neale Hurston mode.” I ask her why, and she tells me it’s the headscarf - one of Zora’s looks. Presently, I’m loving crowdancin’ Zora. She’s silly and perfect.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston writes that “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” I don’t know which of the two this one will prove to be, but here’s to EA, Zora, the impending conversation …

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