{"id":688,"date":"2014-08-21T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=688"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:19","slug":"august-21-all-this-tripping-about-catherine-mcauley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/08\/21\/august-21-all-this-tripping-about-catherine-mcauley\/","title":{"rendered":"August 21 &#8211; &#8220;all this tripping about&#8221;  Catherine McAuley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday \u00a0August 21 \u00a0 \u201cEnough\u201d \u00a0David Whyte<\/p>\n<p>Getting very busy around the university; \u00a0lots of fast walking and flipping from thought to thought and task to task. \u00a0Catherine McAuley, in a memorable saying from her over-busy life leading the fledgling Sisters of Mercy in an Ireland made brutal by the Industrial Revolution of British textiles and the Enclosure Movement which evicted \u00a0subsistence farmers from small plots to open broad spaces for sheep grazing, Dublin a city where wealth flourished in the center while its growing periphery packed in desperate poor driven off those small village plots. \u00a0She named her fast walking and flipping from task to task times \u201ctripping about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u201cAmidst all this tripping about: \u00a0our hearts can always be in the same place<br \/>\ncentered in God, for whom alone we go forward, or stay back.\u201d<br \/>\nCatherine McAuley (December, 1840)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a style=\"line-height: 24px;font-size: 16px;text-align: -webkit-center\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/08\/Catherine_McAuley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693 alignnone\" alt=\"Catherine_McAuley\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/08\/Catherine_McAuley.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/08\/Catherine_McAuley.jpg 318w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/08\/Catherine_McAuley-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Catherine McAuley \u00a01778 &#8211; 1841<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Foundress: \u00a0Sisters of Mercy 1831 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lovely expression,\u00a0\u201ctriping about.\u201d \u00a0 Better to trip about, I guess, than to just trip. \u00a0Better to hustle and scramble with a moment of breathing here and there in the day. \u00a0Here\u2019s \u00a0a short poem to open a space for breathing on this 2nd last work day of the first week of the academic year. \u00a0 I\u2019ve posted it twice before; must like it, eh?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Today\u2019s Post<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Enough<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Enough. These few words are enough.<\/p>\n<p>If not these words, this breath.<\/p>\n<p>If not this breath, this sitting here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This opening to the life<\/p>\n<p>we have refused<\/p>\n<p>again and again<\/p>\n<p>until now.<\/p>\n<p>David Whyte, Where Many Rivers Meet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday \u00a0August 21 \u00a0 \u201cEnough\u201d \u00a0David Whyte Getting very busy around the university; \u00a0lots of fast walking and flipping from thought to thought and task to task. \u00a0Catherine McAuley, in a memorable saying from her over-busy life leading the fledgling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/08\/21\/august-21-all-this-tripping-about-catherine-mcauley\/\">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\/688"}],"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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}