[Dialogue] Another World is Possible

[Janice Ulangca]

I've become a huge fan of Rabbi Michael Lerner and the Network of Spiritual Progressives.  I'm still digesting implications from the June 11-13 conference in Washington DC that they organized - may share reflections later.  Tikkun is their excellent magazine.  Tikkun:  Hebrew for to heal and repair (the world).  Thought you would appreciate this poetry.
Janice Ulangca

>From Michael Lerner today (ICA-USA is sending a staff person to the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.):

This week's spiritual wisdom was sent to us by a member of the Faith and Spirituality group with which Tikkun is working to plan many workshops, a service, and a sacred space at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan, June 22-26. The member, Louisa Davis, suggested this poem as a blessing for the social change work taking place at the forum:
  Another World is Possible


  by Rose Flint


  We can dream it in, with our eyes
  Open to this Beauty, to all
  That Earth gives each of us, each day
  Those miracles of dark and light-
  Rainlight, dawn, sun moon, snow, storm grey
  And the wide fields of night always
  Somewhere opening their flower
  stars - this, this! 

  Another world is possible.
  With river and bird
  Sweet and free without fear, without
  minds blind to harmony, to how
  We can hold. We have been too long
  Spoiled greedy children of Earth, life of rocks and creatures
  Slipping out of our careless hands.
  We must stand now and learn to love
  As a Mother loves her child, each
  cell of her, each grain of her, each
  precious heartbeat of her that is
  Ourselves, our path and our journey
  Into our dream of future, where
  another world is possible
  cradling this one in its arms.
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