Sangha of Auspicious Companions

June 9, 2022

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Spoken Without Words: ASL Poetry Slam

“It’s spoken word without spoken wordsASL SLAM is an open space for poets to perform their work in American Sign Language (ASL). As ASL SLAM’s executive director Douglas Ridloff explains, ASL poetry doesn’t rely on rhyming patterns or meter within auditory or written wordplay; rather, the art is “more about the movement, a visual rhyme versus an audio rhyme.” Its performance is a stunning and emotionally potent artistry that connects with all audiences.” This video from Great Big Story shares more. { read more }

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June 8, 2022

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Black Joy in Pursuit of Racial Justice

“I’ve been longing to talk about all the ways in which these last couple of years have been so much of a gift for me. And yet I struggle with holding that fact in the same space with all the ways these last couple of years have challenged the very core of who I am as a human being and the way I navigate this world as a Black woman. And yet, in writing my book Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration, I’ve learned that the ancestral legacy of our joy tells me I don’t have to choose.” Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts shares more. { read more }

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June 7, 2022

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Sami Awad: A Holy Land for All

When Sami Awad was 16, his uncle was permanently exiled for leading Palestinian nonviolent resistance during the first Intifada. That is how dangerous non-violence is, says Sami. His parents were refugees, displaced by the conflict, and Sami watched his own father abused by Israeli authorities. Yet his mother emphasized the Christian teachings of loving your enemies and forgiveness, while his uncle exposed him to the messages of non-violence from Jesus to Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr. In the late 90s, Sami founded Holy Land Trust, a non-profit in Bethlehem engaging in deep healing work for the trauma of both Palestinians and Israelis. For Sami and HLT, healing the collective traumas that prevent peace is an intense and spiritual process focused on personal transformation and community. { read more }

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Join an Awakin Call with Sami Awad this Saturday. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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June 6, 2022

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Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild

When Kathy Fish was asked, in 2017, to contribute to the online journal, Jellyfish Review, she had a piece all cued up– but then something happened in Las Vegas, that shook the nation, and Fish found herself writing a different piece for the platform instead. It went viral. It was titled, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild.” In Fish’s words, “It weighs in at under 150 words and I’ve seen people call it a poem, a flash fiction, even an essay. I think it’s sort of a hybrid piece, a prose poem.” Call it what you will, five years later, it speaks searingly to the present times. { read more }

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Learn more about the grassroots movement, “Moms Demand Action,” here. { more }

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June 5, 2022

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The Age of the Possible

“…the octopus

with her body-shaped mind
and her eight-arm embrace
of alien realities,
with her colorblind vision
sightful of polarized light
and her perpetually awestruck
lidless eye

can see

shades of blue we cannot conceive.”…

In this hypnotic poem Maria Popova views the age of the Anthropocene from the perspective of the octopus.
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Read Sy Montgomery’s fascinating piece,”Deep Intellect,” that explores the mind of the octopus. { more }

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June 4, 2022

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The Moth: All These Wonders

“The Moth was founded in 1997 by the writer George Dawes Green — its name comes from his memories of growing up in St. Simons Island, Ga., where neighbors would gather late at night on a friend’s porch to tell stories and drink bourbon as moths flew in through the broken screens and circled the porch light. It has since grown into what its artistic director, Catherine Burns, calls “a modern storytelling movement”…A wonderful new book, ‘The Moth Presents: All These Wonders’ — which takes its title from a thrilling account by the NASA scientist Cathy Olkin of last-minute emergency repairs made to the New Horizons spacecraft as it traveled three billion miles to get a close-up of Pluto gathers 45 stories from the last two decades. Some are heartbreakingly sad; some laugh-out-loud funny; some momentous and tragic; almost all of them resonant or surprising.” { read more }

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Consider the stories that have shaped you and your life. For inspiration, check out more stories on The Moth podcast here.o { more }

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June 3, 2022

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Let the Sun Rise

We all have days when things don’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped and we have to make peace with things as they are. Fortunately the sun rises again each morning for all of us and we get another chance to see what the day will bring, to try again and to meet each moment with hope and to practice the art of living. Rejection, fears, doubts and failure are simply part of the human condition. Acknowledging the reality of what we have experienced allows us to move forward into the next moment without bitterness or expectations. Such an attitude gives us the potential to be open to something new and completely different. What is important is to stay connected to one’s inner self–the True Self, that is not subject to the external idea of success–and to remain receptive to life as it is coming to us. { read more }

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Next time you have a “bad day” remember that the sun will rise again tomorrow and with it the opportunity for a new beginning.
When you wake up tomorrow, what will you do with your new day?

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June 2, 2022

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Grace Before Dinner

“As a cook, I am beside myself when I encounter even ten varieties of tomatoes at a farmers market. But to see such diversity among people was deeply moving; people from everywhere with great rough hands and fine, weathered faces. Five thousand farmers from 130 countries were gathering for the first time in history, creating an event called Terra Madre.” From Orion magazine’s archives comes this inspiring post from the first Terra Madre event honoring the Slow Food movement and uniting “our food, our planet, and our future.” { read more }

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