{"id":531,"date":"2014-04-29T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:26","slug":"april-29-new-members-to-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/04\/29\/april-29-new-members-to-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"April 29  &#8211;  new members to the list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday April 29 \u2014 New UDM employees on this list<\/p>\n<p>It took me 5 months to figure out that this list does not automatically include new UDM employees. It\u2019s not hard to include people but I didn\u2019t think to ask IT about it. This morning there are c. 120 new people receiving this post bringing the total number to 1576. Sorry for this lapse; hospitality is about including people. You are welcome on the list.<br \/>\nA couple thoughts come to mind about that welcome this late April morning alive with spring rain.<\/p>\n<p>1) The way this list is designed, you will receive the work day posts most, but not all, work days (sometimes I don\u2019t get time to write)<br \/>\n2) If you want to browse earlier posts, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\">https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry<\/a> Every post lands at the top of the archive on the day it is posted and the first ever post {September 25, 2013} is at the bottom. You can browse a month at a time and you can search by any word (e.g., an author\u2019s name).<br \/>\n3) A few UDM employees have asked to be removed from the list. It\u2019s very easy to do that, email me if you don\u2019t want to receive the posts.<\/p>\n<p>These end of year days at the university remind me of how hard people work. End of term is a time of fatigue, a good time to pause and breathe a little while and allow ourselves to recognize our beauty. Rabindranath Tagore in #49 imagines God giving each of us \u201ca flower for a prize.\u201d Our fatigue is a mark of the beauty of our commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good day; enjoy spring rains.<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Today\u2019s poem<\/span> Rabindranath Tagore <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Gitanjali<\/span> # 49<\/p>\n<p>You came down from your throne<br \/>\nand stood at my cottage door.<br \/>\nI was singing all alone in a corner, and the melody caught your ear.<br \/>\nYou came down<br \/>\nand stood at my cottage door.<\/p>\n<p>Masters are many in your hall, and songs are sung there at all hours.<br \/>\nBut the simple carol of this novice struck at your love.<br \/>\nOne plaintive little strain mingled with the great music of the world,<br \/>\nand with a flower for a prize you came down<br \/>\nand stopped at my cottage door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tagore died in the city of his birth, Calcutta, in 1941. He vastly influenced poetry, sacred and secular, not only in India but around the world. He is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. If you buy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Gitanjali<\/span>, a book of 100 short sacred poems, prepare yourself to only read one poem at a time so you can sit with it. Here is # 1. The poems have no titles, only numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Rabindranath-Tagore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-532\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Rabindranath-Tagore.jpg\" alt=\"Rabindranath Tagore\" width=\"162\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday April 29 \u2014 New UDM employees on this list It took me 5 months to figure out that this list does not automatically include new UDM employees. It\u2019s not hard to include people but I didn\u2019t think to ask &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/04\/29\/april-29-new-members-to-the-list\/\">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\/531"}],"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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}