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SONG: Living in the Overflow ft. Charity Gayle and Joshua Sherman: hhttps://youtu.be/lmAfEI-Ibgc POEM: Catherine Bowman: Story of a Tree (excerpt): All around us the underground world overflows with love. Season after season you return, sap rising up from your roots, unfinished, always becoming. I defended against love / for as long as I could / […]
SONG: Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord from Godspell POEM: Edwin Markham: Preparedness: For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear— When you are the hammer, strike. QUOTE: Douglas Adams: Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable […]
SONG: Comfort Song by Laura Woodley Osman POEM: Joy Ladin: Comfort Animal (excerpt): … You want to cry? Cry about that. Who do you think created / the animals to whom you turn for comfort, dogs, miniature horses, monkeys, ferrets, hungers you know how to feed, fears you know how to quiet? I form them, […]
SONG: Fear Is a Liar by Zach Williams POEM: Evelyn Scott: Fear (excerpt): My soul leaps up at a sound. What is the question that I cannot answer, that must be answered? QUOTE: Rudyard Kipling: Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
SONG: I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner POEM: Robert Bly: Wanting Sumptuous Heavens (excerpt): Only we, with our opposable thumbs, want / Heaven to be, and God to come, again. / There is no end to our grumbling; we want / Comfortable earth and sumptuous Heaven. QUOTE: George Orwell: Freedom is the […]