{"id":886,"date":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=886"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:03","slug":"nov-10-the-boeing-777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/11\/10\/nov-10-the-boeing-777\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 10 &#8211;  The Boeing 777"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Monday November 10 \u00a0\u2014 \u201cworking together in common cause to produce the miraculous\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been fussing with today\u2019s post, &#8220;A Work Day in a Hard Time,\u201d \u00a0 all morning. \u00a0Too much to take in, too many implications calling for rumination. \u00a0I thought of David Whyte\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The House of Belonging<\/span>\u00a0(1998) and found a poem he wrote \u201cfor the presentation of The Collier Trophy to The Boeing Company marking the introduction of the new 777 passenger jet.\u201d \u00a0 Passenger jets require immense, collective engineering capacity for complexity. \u00a0And every complex sub-system must work in harmony with all the others or that big device is likely to fall out of the sky without help from its landing gear.<\/p>\n<p>The 777 is hardly perfection; no complicated and interactive technological system ever is. \u00a0But it is designed\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">to work<\/span>, to get itself off the ground and back down again without crashing, to manage storms and turbulence and passenger safety.<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad metaphor for the Detroit settlement formally approved last Friday by Judge Stephen Rhodes. \u00a0Lots of moving parts have to work together; it is manifestly imperfect; lots of sweat and frustration ahead. \u00a0 Still I cannot deny that this Detroiter sees in The Grand Bargain, a realistic shot at urban rebirth. \u00a0Lots of courage and lots of negotiating and lots of creativity has been happening here. \u00a0Lots more needed.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings on your day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWorking Together\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We shape our self<br \/>\nto fit this world<\/p>\n<p>and by the world<br \/>\nare shaped again.<\/p>\n<p>The visible<br \/>\nand the invisible<\/p>\n<p>working together<br \/>\nin common cause,<\/p>\n<p>to produce<br \/>\nthe miraculous.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking of the way<br \/>\nthe intangible air<\/p>\n<p>passed at speed<br \/>\nround a shaped wing<\/p>\n<p>easily<br \/>\nholds our weight.<\/p>\n<p>So may we, in this life<br \/>\ntrust<\/p>\n<p>to those elements<br \/>\nwe have yet to see<\/p>\n<p>or imagine,<br \/>\nand look for the true<\/p>\n<p>shape of our own self,<br \/>\nby forming it well<\/p>\n<p>to the great<br \/>\nintanbibles about us.<\/p>\n<p>David Whyte<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/11\/David-Whyte.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-887\" alt=\"David-Whyte\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/11\/David-Whyte.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday November 10 \u00a0\u2014 \u201cworking together in common cause to produce the miraculous\u201d I\u2019ve been fussing with today\u2019s post, &#8220;A Work Day in a Hard Time,\u201d \u00a0 all morning. \u00a0Too much to take in, too many implications calling for rumination. &hellip; 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