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What Remains

During a time of year when we are moved to reflect upon themes of rebirth, redemption, sacrifice and regeneration, we turn to the perennial wisdom of Thomas Berry, in a passage from a 1996 lecture at Harvard on Ethics and Ecology. Images are from the stunning growing grass sculptures of Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In closing, we offer a poem by Mary Rose O’Reilly in anticipation of new life that shall emerge, in time, from the vessel’s wreck:

 

 

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No Matter How Ruined

During a time of abundant “clever despair”, we turn to a few paragraphs by Thomas Merton, writing in his prologue to No Man Is An Island. The images are from the work of Eva Hesse.

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An Original Child

On this Hiroshima Day, we turn to Thomas Merton:

 

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To quote another American poet, Carl Sandburg, from a poem that predates the birth of the original child:

We are the greatest city,

the greatest nation,

nothing like us ever was.