Compassion and Forming One Body

“While intellectually we may know we’re all connected, how do we truly make the boundaries between inner and outer-–our skin–-literally and metaphorically, more porous? How do we embody what we understand intellectually? What are some ways in which we can practice forming one body?”
  
A talk at the Church of the Covenant sojourner service in Greensboro, NC, given by me on July 24, 2011.  Click here to listen:  http://vimeo.com/26865778 

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A plan of what's to come

the greenhouse: a space of light, experimentation, and open possibilities.  A collaboration between myself, architect Robert Charest, and students.  A vintage lord and burnham model, in a gazillion pieces... in its finished form the greenhouse will be an experimental engaged-learning space for interdisciplinary collaboration, helping to connect science/art disciplines and foster community.

MJ

a west wind moves
by way of the golden wheat
and dissolves in salt

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One year anniversary

August arrived carrying hope, potential.  August arrives again, and with it brings the advent of what is.  The creeping jenny continues to fill the gaps.  Even better this year.  And it points me to the missing limb that was inside my own body this whole time.


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