{"id":3263,"date":"2019-11-26T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:49:27","slug":"tuesday-nov-26-deep-into-november-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/11\/26\/tuesday-nov-26-deep-into-november-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, Nov 26, deep into November – Gerard Manley Hopkins sj"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, Nov 26, deep into November<\/p>\n

This delicate and demanding Hopkins speaks of the power and beauty of ordinary human sadness. \u00a0Pretty much every work day in the year invites our attention to work-pressure but also to what we notice when we pause, breathe, and invite stillness into the pace of living. \u00a0\u201cHave you breathed yet today\u201d? \u00a0This has been a question many women and men, soul friends, plant lightly in the hustle of my life, \u00a0and I plant in theirs. \u00a0This morning, that question brings me back to Len Waters, sj. \u00a0Len taught me and other college age young adults in his classes and challenged us to believe that our lives are alive with beauty, that sadness opens us to beauty as fresh as playfulness does. \u00a0 Len taught us to keep what he called a \u201cCommonplace Book,\u201d \u00a0small enough to fit in a shirt pocket so that when some extraordinary sound or sight or memory or piece of poetry catches our attention, we could stop where we are, take out our battered little book, find words that want our attention precisely then and there<\/u>\u00a0so that the commonplace moment can come alive with remembering, again and again.<\/p>\n

The \u201cWork Day in a Hard Time,\u201d now in the list\u2019s sixth year, comes from Fr. Waters teaching when he taught me in my early twenties. \u00a0 I miss him still. \u00a0 Reading this Hopkins poem slowly, with pauses, reminds me of what I owe this great mentor. \u00a0Let me tip my hat to Len and to a host of great teachers who have anointed generations of students and their peers here at Six Mile and Livernois.<\/p>\n

Have a blest week as we catch a hint of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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john st sj<\/p>\n

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Spring and Fall<\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Gerard Manley Hopkins
\n\u00a0\u00a0 to a young child<\/em><\/p>\n

M\u00e1rgar\u00e9t, \u00e1re you gr\u00edeving
\nOver Goldengrove unleaving?
\nLe\u00e1ves like the things of man, you
\nWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
\nAh! \u00e1s the heart grows older
\nIt will come to such sights colder
\nBy and by, nor spare a sigh
\nThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
\nAnd yet you w\u00edll weep and know why.
\nNow no matter, child, the name:
\nS\u00f3rrow\u2019s spr\u00edngs \u00e1re the same.
\nNor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
\nWhat heart heard of, ghost guessed:
\nIt \u00eds the blight man was born for,
\nIt is Margaret you mourn for.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Near the Jesuit cemetery, Colombiere Center November 28, 2006<\/p>\n

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