Sail Away Sweet Sister
This is all about God, prayer, community, music, art, poetry, theology, love and all sorts of things people run into on their life journey, especially when the second half of life is looming ahead. It is inspired by Fr Richard Rohr, by the Contemplative Outreach of Fr Thomas Keating, by C.G. Jung, by C.S. Lewis, Alan Watts, St Beuno's retreat house and all the communities I have a privilege to belong to. It is dedicated to and I hope will be used by my nearest and dearest, scattered all over the planet, and who are falling upwards with me.
you're both extraordinary, m & e(sq)
ReplyDeletethe poem Richard... I need to read again and again
I haven't really enjoyed this holiday season at all - hasn't felt right, bit like that image of an empty bed up there on the song with the two stupid lamps.
I feel like getting rid of everything I own, running away somewhere and starting again. afresh
I really miss the sea
I really, really miss the sea X
I find this song very suggestive - even if it is not the one you meant, Marianna, it seems to fit your situation. I find it fits my mood well: misty, quite vulnerable but soulfull.
ReplyDeleteI think we are all extraordinary! I don't know anyone else like you two. The present me has been shaped so much by your influence this year and is very happy to have been so. You are both there, in the poem, very strongly.
Elizabeth, I understand you so well about starting again and losing everything from the past. As soon as we were reunited with our 'stuff' from storage, both Margaret and I wanted to disown it. Having lived so free of it over the last year, we didn't want to return to the burden of it. Maybe we all need to deliberately leave everything behind and start again every now and again.