{"id":3372,"date":"2020-02-26T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:10:36","slug":"feb-26-ash-wednesday-linda-paston-wind-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/02\/26\/feb-26-ash-wednesday-linda-paston-wind-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 26- Ash Wednesday –> Linda Paston – “Wind Chill”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, February 26:
\nweather.com<\/a> \u00a031\u00b0 \u00a0–
\nwind from the north, \u00a0currently 9 mph and building to 15 mph by midnight
\nadvice: \u00a0\u201cbundle up\u201d<\/p>\n

Today is Ash Wednesday in the Christian tradition, the beginning of \u201cLent.\u201d \u00a0The word suggests that people living in our northern latitude chose this Anglo-Saxon word (in Anglo-Saxon Lent means \u201cSpring\u201d). \u00a0In the climate where our city and university live, Lent is a long season during which what at first appears to be dead, very gradually surprises us with vital life. \u00a0 Ash Wednesday challenges us northerners, telling us that growing things \u2014 shrubs, trees, grass \u2014\u00a0look like they are dead when the 40 days begin. \u00a0 It takes a long time, with patient attention, until they prove to us that they\u2019ve been alive after all. \u00a0 So too do Lent prayers challenges us to imagine that when we feel dead, we are really alive.<\/p>\n

For a Lenten prayer, some people choose a twig and stop very near the twig somewhere along their ordinary path, keeping vigil week after week, letting the\u00a0twig surprise them in slow motion.<\/p>\n

Best to read the poem out loud with pauses.<\/p>\n

Have a blessed Lent.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nuniversity chapel roof after a winter storm – January 12, 2011<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s post: \u00a0Linda Paston \u201cWind Chill\u201d<\/p>\n

The door of winter
\nis frozen shut,<\/p>\n

and like the bodies
\nof long extinct animals, cars<\/p>\n

lie abandoned wherever
\nthe cold road has taken them.<\/p>\n

How ceremonious snow is,
\nwith what quiet severity<\/p>\n

it turns even death to a formal
\narrangement.<\/p>\n

Alone at my window, I listen
\nto the wind,<\/p>\n

to the small leaves clicking
\nin their coffins of ice.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ps. Easter, this year, falls on April 12.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nnew life is coming
\na meadow in\u00a0Rocky Mountain National Park in July<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nLinda Pastan
\n1932-
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linda_Pastan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, February 26: weather.com \u00a031\u00b0 \u00a0– wind from the north, \u00a0currently 9 mph and building to 15 mph by midnight advice: \u00a0\u201cbundle up\u201d Today is Ash Wednesday in the Christian tradition, the beginning of \u201cLent.\u201d \u00a0The word suggests that people … Continue reading →<\/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\/3372"}],"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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}