{"id":1639,"date":"2015-12-07T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:05","slug":"dec-7-sitting-here-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/12\/07\/dec-7-sitting-here-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 7 &#8211; &#8220;sitting here together&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, December 7<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 2nd week of Advent<\/p>\n<p>One of my Jesuit soul friends sent me this poem yesterday: a contemplation of the beauty of flawed human kinship. These weeks of December a solid percentage of students and faculty and staff have reason to recognize a collective shared beauty, flawed and even wounded, beauty.<\/p>\n<p>I love Advent most of all the Christian seasons. Blessings on the new week. It\u2019s very short, this poem, read slowly.<br \/>\njohn sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A b s o l u t e l y Perfect.<br \/>\nNo, not me. I just dripped ketchup<br \/>\non my shirt; and the hamburger<br \/>\ncould use an onion.<br \/>\nBut sitting here together<br \/>\nwith spotted shirts<br \/>\nlistening to our poems, is,<br \/>\nA b s o l u t e l y Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit, July 4, 2011<\/p>\n<p>October full moon, near dawn in the Western sky, out my west face window<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/OctoberMoon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1640\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/OctoberMoon-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"OctoberMoon\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/OctoberMoon-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/OctoberMoon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/OctoberMoon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, December 7 &#8211; 2nd week of Advent One of my Jesuit soul friends sent me this poem yesterday: a contemplation of the beauty of flawed human kinship. These weeks of December a solid percentage of students and faculty and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/12\/07\/dec-7-sitting-here-together\/\">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\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}