“Nature is the home of miracles. Complex growth, stories of resilience, ephemeral beauty emerging and evaporating. When we take time to stop and look, each one of these gifts reminds us to pay attention to the fleeting beauty of our own lives.”
–from Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life, Beth Kempton, 2018
Movie suggestions from the past few days…
Never Look Away
Best of Enemies
Toilet: A Love Story
Padman
Period: End of Sentence
Irish Soda Bread — Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Vegetarian lentil soup, cornbread and tart cherry pie (for Pi Day+1)
Pizza pie on pi day!
“I think one of the best things we can do, I think, in developing our own life of prayer is practicing simply paying attention. Actually look and consider and spend time looking at something in creation, looking at it and marveling at it, wondering at it, and allowing its deep mystery to come to you and change you and reveal something of a mystery of God the Creator. I think this is a wonderful way of deepening our relationship with God.”
– Br. Geoffrey Tristram, “Pick something in God’s creation to consider today…”, Growing a Rule of Life, March 10, 2019 Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Jeane would have loved this
To read more, click here.
…I’ll just put up this link with congratulations to the author. Please consider reading and reflecting on Mr. Kreider’s words and ideas: “The ‘Busy’ Trap,” New York Times, Sunday, July 1, 2012
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…you’ve got to watch this video of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard brain scientist, describe the experience of having a stroke. Listen to what she says about the left and right sides of the brain…and where the potential to become perceptive lies.
You can read more at her web site.
Aesthetics studies new ways of seeing and perceiving the world.
–Wikipedia on “aesthetics”
Don’t forget that the organizational meeting of Listening to the Blues will be held Thursday evening, 7 May, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the St. Paul room on the second floor of the Hall. If you plan to attend, please send me an email in advance; I’d like to have an idea of the numbers.
Listening to Parenthood and Listening to Uncertainty have been postponed until further notice. New times will be announced here. Email or call (720.346.8420) me with any questions. Thanks.
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