Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to community and creation!
SONG: IJM Ghana: Spirit Song: https://youtu.be/civgUOommC8 POEM: Rudyard Kipling: Justice (excerpt): Before we loose the word / That bids new worlds to birth, Needs must we loosen first the sword / Of Justice upon earth; Or else all else is vain / Since life on earth began, And the spent world sinks back again / […]
SONG: Beyonce from Disney’s Lion King: Spirit Song: https://youtu.be/civgUOommC8 POEM: Wendell Berry: A Spiritual Journey: And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be […]
ONG: The Wynans: Uphold Me: https://youtu.be/xkHfGzAcD6E POEM: Rebecca Hazelton: Vow (excerpt): … When they looked at their options / it seemed there weren’t really that many / after all. They swore to uphold the bonds / and the principles … QUOTE: Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: People who have a religion should […]
SONG: Rytikal: Chosen: https://youtu.be/thNWIM5Oe6w POEM: Uche Nduka: Untitled [When Shall Your Wounds] (excerpt): … daily your kingdom squeaks / and leaps to the starlight / it wants all of you / you of all and the music … you are the one the music / has chosen and whom strings call / twilight moans behind […]
SONG: Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell: Dueling Banjos (Deliverance 1972): https://youtu.be/p8t8uqEf6_A POEM: Linda Hogan: The History of Red (excerpt): … A wildness / swam inside our mothers, desire through closed eyes, a new child / wearing the red, wet mask of birth, delivered into this land / already wounded, stolen and burned / beyond reckoning. […]