[Dialogue] Another World is Possible

[Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook]

Thank you Janice! Indeed a blessing.



On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Janice Ulangca <aulangca at stny.rr.com>wrote:

>  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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> Thank you Janice...

Blessings to all,

Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook


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