For this month’s inspiration, we’re looking to music. As we search for our voice and attempt to march to the beat of our own drum, these are the songs (and books and videos and etc.) in our ears and in our hearts that help us march unto the breach of a new year with confidence and conviction, with no intention of being anything but our truest selves. We’re going to keep on singing our own song until everyone hears it. 

Art: “The Concert,” Marc Chagall (1957)

Poem: “I Am In Need Of Music,” Elizabeth Bishop

Book: Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song by Sara Bareilles

Song: “Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime: The Musical

Video: Aretha Franklin performs “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors

Quotation: “You are enough. You are so enough. It’s unbelievable how enough you are.” — Sierra Boggess

Photos via: wikiart, LeFancyGeek