{"id":2345,"date":"2017-08-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:46:59","slug":"aug-1-the-badger-ferry-across-the-big-lake-summer-ending-beneath-a-million-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/08\/01\/aug-1-the-badger-ferry-across-the-big-lake-summer-ending-beneath-a-million-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Aug 1 — The Badger Ferry across the big lake — summer ending beneath a million stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday August 1 \u00a0\u2014 \u201chere come the stars\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday, I wrote the account of my travel home from vacation for two soul friends who live in Detroit. \u00a0 It turned into a card honoring St. Ignatius whose feast day was yesterday. \u00a0I sent it to 4 or 5 other friends. \u00a0This morning, it has become a journal entry for the first day of my work year, a good way to frame Robert Frost\u2019s wonderful celebration of stars in today\u2019s poem.<\/p>\n

The Badger Ferry 4 hours\u00a0\u2014\u00a0mid-summer heavens<\/p>\n

Just home yesterday from 7 days on the Waupaca Chain of Lakes, a place of stillness and beauty for sjs, dedicated to play and rest, and beauty,\u00a0built\u00a0by a couple of smart Jesuit lay brothers c. 1896. \u00a0That\u2019s normal late July fare for me. \u00a0But this year! \u00a0I came home to Detroit by way of a bucket-list-perfect surprise. \u00a0 I took the Badger Lake Michigan Ferry \u00a0(4 hours across, from Manitowoc to Ludington) on the 1:30 am run. \u00a0Almost no sleep, \u00a0because I sat on the top deck in the wind and cold that the middle of the big lake offers, \u00a0wind and cold and stars, millions with v little ground light, maybe 6 shooting stars. I just let myself be mesmerized and very gradually began to taste the dawn out in the east. \u00a0 Under those stars, I thanked the summer break for nourishing me and, using the Lakota Prayer of the Six Directions, turned toward the new work year.<\/p>\n

Waupaca, Sunset Lake seen from the 1896 veranda porch c. 50 ft above the water.<\/p>\n

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Best to read the poem out loud, with pauses. \u00a0Welcome to 2017-18.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post \u00a0\u00a0Robert Frost<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Literate Farmers and the Planet Venus\u201d<\/p>\n

Here come the stars to character the skies,
\nAnd they in the estimation of the wise
\nAre more divine than any bulb or arc,
\nBecause their purpose is to flash and spark,
\nBut not to take away the precious dark.
\nWe need the interruption of the night
\nTo ease attention off when overtight,
\nTo break our logic in too long a flight,
\nAnd ask us if our premises are right<\/p>\n

Robert Frost, 1874 \u2013 1963
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