{"id":890,"date":"2014-11-12T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=890"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:03","slug":"nov-12-summer-ends-now-g-m-hopkins-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/11\/12\/nov-12-summer-ends-now-g-m-hopkins-sj\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 12 – Summer Ends Now – G. M. Hopkins sj"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 12 \u00a0\u00a0 \u201c3 Feet in some places\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj looked inside the death of summer and the coming of cold weather as sacred beauty, the play of God with the earth; the poet recognized the gaze of human beings, moved to joy by sheer beauty, as prayer. \u00a0As today\u2019s reports of deep snow up north reminds us, we recognize autumn\u2019s passing splendor. \u00a0 Northern Michigan U is closed due to \u201cterrible weather.\u201d \u00a0Rather than sacrifice the joy of the leaves dancing all around us here in Detroit to premonitions of gloom, I want to offer some stillness to this day.<\/p>\n

You too?<\/p>\n

Have a blest day,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post<\/strong> Best to read aloud, with pauses.<\/p>\n

“Hurrahing in the Harvest”<\/strong><\/p>\n

SUMMER ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
\nAround; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
\nOf silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
\nMeal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?<\/p>\n

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
\nDown all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
\nAnd, \u00e9yes, he\u00e1rt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
\nRapturous love\u2019s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?<\/p>\n

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
\nMajestic\u2014as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!\u2014
\nThese things, these things were here and but the beholder
\nWanting; which two when they once meet,
\nThe heart rears wings bold and bolder
\nAnd hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.<\/p>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj 1844-1889<\/p>\n

\"GMHopkins\"<\/a><\/p>\n

p.s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Looking for a new prayer to honor UDM\u2019 s vets \u00a0yesterday I came across a short post about families of vets. \u00a0It\u2019s not for the faint of heart; \u00a0reading it as if it were a poem helped turn it into a prayer and a reminder that right now c. 100 vets are part of our UDM community of research, teaching, and learning.<\/p>\n


\nWhile it’s well known that 22 veterans a day kill themselves<\/a>, a CNN investigation revealed that many military family members also have attempted or contemplated suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Uncounted”<\/a> examined how war’s trauma can wrack entire families. Family members have endured unprecedented multiple deployments during two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, lasting more than a decade. That means financial and emotional stress for relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

If a family member returns from war, it’s often the relatives who must care for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If we can’t figure out a way to provide better support for families, the public will pay one way or another,” said Kristina Kaufmann, executive director of Code of Support Foundation, <\/a>which tries to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

“Don’t be afraid to approach us. This heartache I have — it makes other people uncomfortable. It hits them in a place that scares them,” said New Jersey parent Bill Koch, whose son Steven died in Afghanistan in 2008. His daughter committed suicide two years later, an act her parents believe was inextricably tied to losing Steven.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It can hurt so much more when we feel like we’re making other people uncomfortable by talking about our kids,” Koch said. “Don’t push military family members away because you’re afraid you’ll say the wrong thing. Just asking us means you care, and that means everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

from “5 ways to honor veterans beyond Veterans Day\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>By\u00a0Ashley Fantz<\/strong>, CNN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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