{"id":2793,"date":"2018-11-13T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:13","slug":"tuesday-after-retreat-days-stillness-and-beauty-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/11\/13\/tuesday-after-retreat-days-stillness-and-beauty-tagore\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday after retreat days &#8212; stillness and beauty &#8211; Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tuesday November 13 \u00a0 \u201cNow is the time to sit quiet\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back from my annual Jesuit retreat, on the border between southern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut.\u00a0 Breathing time and time for stillness &amp; beauty. \u00a0 The Work Day\/Hard Time poetry posts took the time to refresh its imagination too.<\/p>\n<p>Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s Gitanjali # 5 \u00a0reminds me \u00a0why stillness and \u00a0beauty and unhurried breathing can restore me body and imagination and spirit. \u00a0 Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment\u2019s 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>Rabindranath Tagore \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0 \u09b0\u09ac\u09c0\u09a8\u09cd\u09a6\u09cd\u09b0\u09a8\u09be\u09a5 \u09a0\u09be\u0995\u09c1\u09b0<\/p>\n<p>May 1861 \u00a0\u2013 August 1941<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/04\/Tagore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1845\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/04\/Tagore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A serious November snow\u00a0\u2014 November 22, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/11\/First-Snow-Nov-2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1622\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/11\/First-Snow-Nov-2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/11\/First-Snow-Nov-2015.jpg 979w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/11\/First-Snow-Nov-2015-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday November 13 \u00a0 \u201cNow is the time to sit quiet\u201d Back from my annual Jesuit retreat, on the border between southern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut.\u00a0 Breathing time and time for stillness &amp; beauty. \u00a0 The Work Day\/Hard Time poetry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/11\/13\/tuesday-after-retreat-days-stillness-and-beauty-tagore\/\">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\/2793"}],"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=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}