serious play ... serious eating ... fun fun fun in this upside down world

from For All by Gary Snyder

I pledge allegiance to the soil

of Turtle Island,

and to the beings who thereon dwell

one ecosystem

in diversity

under the sun

With joyful interpenetration for all.

we love this body

from: we love this body

We love this body as we love the day we first met the person

who led us away from this world;

as we love the gift we gave one morning on impulse,

in a fraction of a second,

that we still see every day;

as we love the human face, fresh after love-making,

more full of joy than a wagonload of hay.


Robert Bly

the Visible reminder of invisible Light

excerpt from T.S. Eliot


Out of the sea of sound the life of music …
There spring the perfect order of speech, and the beauty of incantation …

For Man is joined spirit and body,
And therefore must serve as spirit and body.
Visible and invisible, two worlds meet in Man;
Visible and invisible must meet in His Temple …

Now you shall see the Temple completed …
The dressed altar, the lifting light,

Light

Light
The visible reminder of invisible Light …

We thank Thee for the lights that we have kindled,
The Light of altar and of sanctuary …

We thank Thee who hast moved us to building, to finding,
To forming at the ends of our fingers and beams of our eyes …
And we thank Thee that darkness reminds us of light.
O Light Invisible, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory!

anne

Wind Chimes from Jody