Thought for the Day

 [. . .] Time is a long sunrise where we wait for our halos.

Night is the ash that covers the light. [. . .]

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

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Quoted from Kelli Russell Agodon, "Till Death Shatters the Fabulous Stars" in Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), p. 48

 

Kelli Russell Agodon, Poet, Writer, Editor, Book Designer, Co-Founder, Two Sylvias Press

Thought for the Day

This beautiful gift of attention that we human beings have

is being hijacked to pay attention to products and someone

else's political agenda. Whereas if we can reclaim our

attention and pay attention to things that really matter,

there a revolution starts.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Quoted from David Marchese, "You Don't Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction" (Interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer), The New York Times Magazine, January 29, 2023

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Member, Citizen Potawatomi Nation; Professor, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Author, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Editions, 2015) and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Oregon State University Press, 2003)

Thought for the Day

 [. . .] it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

And there are so many silences to be broken.

~ Audre Lorde

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Quoted from Audre Lorde, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (Essay), Delivered at Modern Language Association's "Lesbian and Literature Panel," Chicago, Ill., December 28, 1977; First Published in Sinister Wisdom 6 (1978) and The Cancer Journals (Spinsters, Ink, San Francisco, 1980) Note: The link is to the essay reproduced by Electric Literature from Sister Outsider (1984), p. 44. The latter comprises a collection of essays and speeches by Lorde written between 1976 and 1984. A 2007 reprint of the collection is available from Crossing Press.

Audre Lorde (1934-1992), American Writer, Essayist, Poet, Feminist, Civil Rights Activist, Professor

The Audre Lorde Project

Audre Lorde Profiles at Academy of American Poets,  National Women's History Museum, and Poetry Foundation

Thought for the Day

Person-to-person is the way the gospel was originally communicated.

Person-in-love-with person, person-respecting-person, person-

forgiving-person, person-touching-person, person-crying-

with-person, person-hugging-person: that's where

 the Spirit is so beautifully present.

~ Fr. Richard Rohr

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Quoted from Richard Rohr, "Jesus's Person-to-Person Ministry," Daily Meditation, Center for Action and Contemplation, December 27, 2022

Fr. Richard Rohr, Franciscan Priest, Ecumenical Teacher, Author, Founder of CAC