Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
SONGS anout WALKING TOGETHER and EMMAUS: POEMS recited: Servant Girl at Emmaus— Denise Levertov (inspired by the painting above by Diego Valázquez c.1620) She listens, listens, holding her breath.Surely that voiceis his—the onewho had looked at her, once,across the crowd, as no one ever had looked?Had seen her?Had spoken as if to her?Surely those hands[…]
POEM: Joyce Sidman: The Season’s Campaign (excerpt): We burst forth … SONG: Ezinma: Vivaldi Springs Forth: https://youtu.be/B84U_5C-ho0 QUOTE: Juan Mascaro: The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from[…]
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,as though I had wings.― Mary Oliver Here Comes the Sun— The Beatles lyrics by George HarrisonHere comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)Here comes the sun, and I sayIt’s all[…]
Spring — Mary Oliver And here is the serpent again.Dragging himself out from his nest of darkness,His cave under the black rocks,His winter-death.He loops around the bunches of rising grass,Looking for the sun. Well, who doesn’t want the sun after the long winter?I step aside,He feels the air with his soft tongue,Around the bones of his body[…]
SONG: The Chant: Come To Pass: https://youtu.be/kc6dEx9cgR0 POEM: Rachel Hadas: Pass It On III (excerpt): … Death makes life shine … QUOTE: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage,[…]
