weather.com<\/a>, \u00a0 Perhaps a soaker without broken trees, a summer day (\u201cScattered thunderstorms this morning, then mainly cloudy during the afternoon with thunderstorms likely. High 79F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80%\u201d). \u00a0 Dazzling summer days \u2014 crisp dry air, breezy and not too hot, showing flowers and shades of green brought by trees and shrubs and grasses \u2014 they refresh my soul. \u00a0So do rainy summer days when I pay attention and even, ugh, sticky days with heavy pollen.<\/p>\nMary Oliver invites the reader to find words to say the spectacular and the ordinary, the winsome and the frayed. The principle behind the work day posts is to open a space about 2 minutes long in which someone\u2019s words remind us of stillness waiting to be noticed.<\/p>\n
Have a good day. \u00a0 \u00a0 Beauty lives deep down.<\/p>\n
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john st sj<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0Praying<\/b><\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t have to be
\nthe blue iris, it could be
\nweeds in a vacant lot, or a few
\nsmall stones; just
\npay attention, then patch<\/p>\n
a few words together and don\u2019t try
\nto make them elaborate, this isn\u2019t
\na contest but the doorway<\/p>\n
into thanks, and a silence in which
\nanother voice may speak.<\/p>\n
Mary Oliver<\/p>\n
p.s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy Lilla Cox, one of our grads and now a professor of theology, sent me pictures from Assisi this summer: \u201cThree friars sang the songs, which were teaching tools for the early Fransciscans.\u00a0 One played the violin, a second the guitar, and\u00a0Friar Alessandro,\u00a0who sang (beautiful rich voice), played the instrument in the pictures.\u00a0 After the concert, several of us went to talk with Alessandro. \u00a0Friar Alessandro said he saw the instrument in a painting and it sparked his imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kathy chose the camera perspective. \u00a0I like her choose of bare feet, near the instrument, in Franciscan sandals.<\/p>\n
![\"Franciscan](\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/08\/Franciscan-sandals-1024x768.jpg\")
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