{"id":2192,"date":"2017-02-08T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:20","slug":"feb-8-half-way-through-februarys-2nd-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/02\/08\/feb-8-half-way-through-februarys-2nd-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 8 &#8211; half-way through February&#8217;s 2nd week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, February 8 \u00a0\u201cNow it is time to site quiet, face to face with thee . . .\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of noisy news these days, clatter of strategies and counter strategies \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0such times want, I find myself saying \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0breathing times. \u00a0While turning the pages of poets who have helped me find stillness before, Tagore caught my attention with Gitanjali # 5. \u00a0 This summertime poem can make a place in February too.<\/p>\n<p>Best to read the poem out loud with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post &#8211; \u00a0Rabindranath Tagore\u00a0<u>Gitanjali<\/u>, \u00a0# 5<\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment&#8217;s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works<br \/>\nthat I have in hand I will finish afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,<br \/>\nand my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.<\/p>\n<p>Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and<br \/>\nthe bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing<br \/>\ndedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, February 8 \u00a0\u201cNow it is time to site quiet, face to face with thee . . .\u201d Lots of noisy news these days, clatter of strategies and counter strategies \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0such times want, I find myself saying \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0breathing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/02\/08\/feb-8-half-way-through-februarys-2nd-week\/\">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\/2192"}],"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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}