{"id":1264,"date":"2015-03-18T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:36","slug":"march-18-tagore-the-bliss-of-the-touch-of-the-one-in-the-play-of-the-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/03\/18\/march-18-tagore-the-bliss-of-the-touch-of-the-one-in-the-play-of-the-many\/","title":{"rendered":"March 18 Tagore: “the bliss of the touch of the one in the play of the many”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday March 18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The task of beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pretty classy day\u2019s weather it looks like. \u00a0High pressure, winds about of the West Northwest, zero pollen predicted, lots of spring songbirds. \u00a0Counter-intuitive beauty.<\/p>\n

\u201cCounter-Intuitive\u201d: \u00a0I happened to hear four adult stories of fatigue and anger and grief yesterday afternoon and evening. \u00a0That\u2019s not counting the bravery of 12 year old Deont\u00e9 Whitehead who jumped in front of three strangers threatening with a drawn knife to rob his mom as they got out of the car to head inside their house.<\/p>\n

“Responding that she had none [no money], the three became angry and started using profanity,\u00a0which spurred Deont\u00e9 into action. Police said when one person produced a knife, Deont\u00e9 jumped in front of his mother. That person “started flinging it,” the seventh-grader said, so he put his arm out.\u00a0 The boy said he was “scared for a minute,” but his mother said: “I don’t think he was. He wanted to help his mom. \u2026 At that time it was just more adrenaline \u2014 trying to protect his mom.\u201d \u00a0Deont\u00e9 took some stitches.\u00a0 Neighbor Charlene Broaden “said she was surprised to hear about a stabbing on her street.\u00a0 As bad as (the neighborhood) looks, it’s getting better,” she said “They’re knocking down the burned-out homes.”\u00a0 Jim Grenwick, president of the Cornerstone Village Community Association, said: “The young man is heroic. He did the right thing,” Grenwick said. “He didn’t need instruction to try to protect his mom and that’s a good thing.” \u00a0Detroit News<\/p>\n

Good news and hard news. \u00a0It\u2019s easy to get worn down. \u00a0 Sheer beauty can look inadequate for the task repairing violent damage, like the stiches in\u00a0Deont\u00e9\u2019s arm and the worries about neighborhood crime. \u00a0But I doubt it. \u00a0Beauty does not deceive when it catches our attention. Its work is reminding us that deep down, under the exhausting burdens of our adult commitments, lives a wellspring of sacred grace.<\/p>\n

Rabindinath Tagore saw his share of the world\u2019s wounds. \u00a0Many of his poems are like today\u2019s post, realism and wonder seamlessly intertwined. \u00a0 Have a good day.<\/p>\n

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john st sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post from Gitanjali<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.
\nThou hast given me seats in homes not my own.
\nThou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.<\/p>\n

I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter;
\nI forget that there abides the old in the new,
\nand that there also thou abidest.<\/p>\n

Through birth and death, in this world or in others,
\nwherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same,
\nthe one companion of my endless life
\nwho ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar.<\/p>\n

When one knows thee, then alien there is none,
\nthen no door is shut.
\nOh, grant me my prayer
\nthat I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the one
\nin the play of the many.<\/p>\n

Tagore\u00a0Gitanjali<\/span>\u00a0#63<\/p>\n

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tulips are coming soon<\/p>\n

\"Tulips\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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