{"id":1352,"date":"2015-05-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:28","slug":"may-1-time-for-beauty-and-some-stillness-and-some-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/05\/01\/may-1-time-for-beauty-and-some-stillness-and-some-play\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1, time for beauty and some stillness and some play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, May 1, 2015 \u00a0\u2014 time for a little rest<\/strong><\/p>\n

I posted this poem one year of Fridays ago, May 2, 2014. \u00a0Bet I am not the only one tired; and glad to see Friday. \u00a0 A weekend after even campus parking lots get a rest from the press and hustle of student traffic.<\/p>\n

I love Tagore, never seem to grow tired of what his poems work in my heart and body and mind.<\/p>\n

Read him aloud and breathe a little.\u00a0 Blessings for this weekend.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I ask for a moment\u2019s indulgence to sit by thy side,
\nThe works that I have in hand
\nI will finish afterwards.
\nAway from the sight of thy face
\nmy heart knows no rest nor respite,
\nand my work becomes an endless toil
\nin a shoreless sea of toil.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to sit quiet,
\nface to face with thee
\nand to sing dedication of life
\nin this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n

Tagore 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daffodils at Sunrise \u2013 April 1, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Daffodils\"<\/a><\/p>\n

p.s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After Wednesday\u2019s post,\u00a0one of the list\u2019s readers wrote a cautionary note about spawning run fishing, a wisdom learned from his family of walleye fishermen. \u00a0Posted with a tip of my hat to enrich the depth of the original post from Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As a Lake Erie walleye fisherman most my life, I don’t believe in fishing for them until at least the middle of May. Let them spawn and get back in the lake then start fishing for them. My uncle Fran, who fishes walleye on Erie every season, hears from guys who go to Sandusky, Toledo, Detroit, and talk about fishermen taking more than they’re allowed and foul hooking them. Maybe if Detroiters and Windsorians stopped the fishing in April there would be more in June, July, for those on the lakes \u2026<\/p>\n

Nathan<\/p>\n

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:41 AM, john staudenmaier sj\u00a0<staudejm@udmercy.edu<\/a>>\u00a0wrote:<\/p>\n

Wednesday April 29<\/p>\n

“April and May mark the start of the walleye spawn. An estimated 10 million walleye (sander vitreus, if you know your dead languages) migrate from Lake Erie in search of the shallow rocky bed common along the shipping channel of the Detroit River. Here, these tasty fish lay their eggs. \u00a0 The spring run draws thousands of fishermen, or anglers, to the 24-nautical mile straight.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Crain\u2019s Detroit News<\/u>, April 29<\/p>\n

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

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