Daily Archives: January 27, 2013

Faith and Spirituality, Family, Great Wheel, Poetry, Writing

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Winter                                                                          Cold Moon

Kate premiered as both lyricist/poet and sung song writer.  She wrote the following to the words of the passover song, Dayenu.  We sang it today during the service at Groveland.

 

Refrain:            Di-di-urnal              di-di-urnal

di-di-urnal,  di-di-urnal,  di-urnal,  di-urnal:[[  di-urnal, time has come

 

 

Circles come and circles go round

Life eternal, everlasting

Everlasting, life eternal

Diurnal  (refrain)

Season come and seasons go round

Spring and summer, fall and winter

Winter, autumn, summer and spring.

Diurnal

Spring has come and life awakens

Time to get the garden ready

The ground is turned, seeds are planted

Diurnal

Summer comes and brings warm weather

Flowers bloom and insects hover

The crops grow big and bear their fruit.

Diurnal

Autumn comes and brings the ripening

Apples are crisp, berries are sweet

Harvest starts with food preserving.

Diurnal

Winter comes, the earth goes to sleep

Time for reflecting, memories sweet

The cycle ends, new one begins.

Diurnal

Circles come and circles go round

Life eternal, everlasting

Everlasting, life eternal

Diurnal

Reimagine. Reconstruct. Reenchant.

Reimagining Faith

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Winter                                                                                   Cold Moon

Among several reasons I had for moving north, away from my southern roots, was to avoid sleety, cold rain in January.  As far as I’m concerned, it’s the one weather form that has no redeeming qualities.  It’s chill, wet and without atmosphere.  Drear.

(seasonal round of the Umatilla nation, Oregon)

That’s what we drove home in this afternoon from the Red Stag.We had brunch there after my presentation at Groveland.

Feels like the Reimagining project may finally be gaining some traction.  Folks liked the seasonal round and found beginning one illuminating.  At the end I was asked if I did classes on my faith journey.  No, I said, but then I haven’t been asked.

Made me consider what a class structure would look like for the reimagining work.  I’m not anywhere on it right now, but it’s something to put in the reimagining bucket.

Now the sleet has turned to heavy snow, wet and clingy.  Much better.  Temperature went down a bit.