Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging Jeff Gold on the Paradisical Jazz Club One underrated quality of the jazz scene in the 1940s and 50s was its racial integration. Music does that – it draws people together into common spaces. That it no…
Poetry for Building Community, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Structure Of Belonging Everything Is Waiting for You During this time of isolation, David Whyte's poem reminds us that we are never truly alone. "Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity" shows us a path through loneliness and…
Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Structure Of Belonging Gratitude for Today, Anticipation for Tomorrow The end of a long year is upon us. The gifts have been plentiful, though at times overshadowed by turmoil. We offer you this last reader for this year, grateful…
Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected “The Guest House” By Jalaluddin Rumi “Every morning a new arrival.” Such is being human, Rumi says. Being embodied, enfleshed, subject to sickness and euphoria, to pain and ecstasy. It is always only from our flesh…
Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging A Place To Belong At the halfway point of this captivating short film is a central image: grandpa’s foot on the pedal of his dry cleaning machine, next to grandson’s foot on the pedal…
