{"id":1395,"date":"2015-06-08T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:23","slug":"june-5-confident-shrug-and-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/06\/08\/june-5-confident-shrug-and-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"June 5 &#8211; &#8220;Confident Shrug and Twist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, June 5<\/p>\n<p>My last full day this year on Pine Ridge, fills me with stories of courage and step-by-step achievements and stories of tragic deaths of people too young, some from accidents, some from suicides. \u00a0Grief and playful creativity in the stories old friends have told me these days. \u00a0Here\u2019s a poem also from an old friend, the poet Denise Levertov. \u00a0About shocking failures when over confident, and more deeply shocking, incredible tenderness. \u00a0 Re-reading this post from last August 20 will be my thank you celebration for time on Pine Ridge this year.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/08\/20\/aug-20-confident-shrug-and-twist\/\">Today\u2019s Post\u00a0\u201cPoem Rising by its own Weight\u201d \u00a0Denise Levertov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>p.s. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 An article from today\u2019s Detroit Crain\u2019s Business about an urban vegetable garden a couple miles from our campus in Northwest Detroit; \u00a0another rebirth story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsdetroit.com\/article\/20150604\/NEWS\/150609918\/state-launches-crowdfunding-effort-for-detroit-community-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.crainsdetroit.com\/article\/20150604\/NEWS\/150609918\/state-launches-crowdfunding-effort-for-detroit-community-garden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, June 5 My last full day this year on Pine Ridge, fills me with stories of courage and step-by-step achievements and stories of tragic deaths of people too young, some from accidents, some from suicides. \u00a0Grief and playful creativity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/06\/08\/june-5-confident-shrug-and-twist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}