Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Meditations on summer solstice, mother & child abandoned in desert, miraculous rise of wellspring, hope in dry places: themes from the story of Abraham, Ishmael & Hagar, Sarah & Isaac as patriarchs and matriarchs of two faiths and two families, sundered. Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael — George Segal Wind, Water, Stone — Octavio Paz Translated[…]
The Gift — Li-Young Lee To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver I thought I’d die from. I can’t remember the tale, but hear his voice still,[…]
TRINITY — Michael Bugeja 1. God You have distinct dimensions. They are we: Encyclopedias and alphabets Of the Big Bang, exobiology, Inhabitants on multitudes of planets. Our light cannot escape your gravity. The soul is linked to yours, a diode Through which we must return as energy Until we flare like red suns, and explode:[…]
Tortoise Shout (excerpt) — DH Lawrence Torn, to become whole again, after long seeking for what is lost, The same cry from the tortoise as from Christ, the Osiris-cry of abandonment, That which is whole, torn asunder, That which is in part, finding its whole again throughout the universe. O Me! O Life! — Walt[…]
Decoration Day — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow … Ye have slept on the ground before, And started to your feet At the cannon’s sudden roar, Or the drum’s redoubling beat. … Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free. You silent tents of green,[…]
