{"id":1610,"date":"2015-11-04T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:06","slug":"nov-4-tagore-a-moments-indulgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/11\/04\/nov-4-tagore-a-moments-indulgence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 4  &#8211;  Tagore  &#8220;a moment&#8217;s indulgence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday \u00a0November 4 \u00a0 \u201cNow is the time to sit quiet&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Packing for my annual Jesuit retreat, on Connecticut\u2019s south shore of the Long Island Sound and on the bank of The Hammonasset River, a tidal estuary with sea birds and marsh grass. \u00a0Some breathing time, with short meetings before and after. \u00a0 Back Wednesday Nov 18.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment&#8217;s indulgence to sit by thy side,<br \/>\nThe works that I have in hand<br \/>\nI will finish afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Away from the sight of thy face<br \/>\nmy heart knows no rest nor respite,<br \/>\nand my work becomes an endless toil<br \/>\nin a shoreless sea of toil.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to sit quiet,<br \/>\nface to face with thee<br \/>\nand to sing dedication of life<br \/>\nin this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n<p>Tagore 5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tagore\u2019s poem # 5 in <u>Gitanjali<\/u>\u00a0 fits these days<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday \u00a0November 4 \u00a0 \u201cNow is the time to sit quiet&#8221; Packing for my annual Jesuit retreat, on Connecticut\u2019s south shore of the Long Island Sound and on the bank of The Hammonasset River, a tidal estuary with sea birds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/11\/04\/nov-4-tagore-a-moments-indulgence\/\">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\/1610"}],"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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}