Centering Ritual: Wandering

Dr. Elías Ortega and faithing the moment (Week 2)

Source: Milwaukee Independent

Source: Milwaukee Independent

 
An offering for you...For the next three weeks...I would like to share a short centering ritual. Each will center around a theme’...#FaithingForward
— Dr. Elías Ortega @meadville.prez, Instagram, 23 March 2020
 

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WEEK 2

WANDERING

 

DAY 1

EXPERIENCING NATURE

 

DAY 2

MOVEMENT

 

DAY 3

SITTING

 

DAY 4

IMAGINATION

 
 
 

Pure Imagination by Roald Dahl

Come with me and you’ll be
In a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you’ll see
Into your imagination

We’ll begin with a spin
Trav’ling in the world of my creation
What we’ll see will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there’s nothing to it

There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you’ll be free
If you truly wish to be


DAY 5

REMINISCING

 
 

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove

For Fred

I could pick anything and think of you—
This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue
My pen exudes, drying matte, upon the page.
I could choose any hero, any cause or age
And, sure as shooting arrows to the heart,
Astride a dappled mare, legs braced as far apart
As standing in silver stirrups will allow—
There you'll be, with furrowed brow
And chain mail glinting, to set me free:
One eye smiling, the other firm upon the enemy.

This post-postmodern age is all business: compact disks
And faxes, a do-it-now-and-take-no-risks
Event. Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast,
Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd, who brings a host
Of daydreams: awkward reminiscences
Of teenage crushes on worthless boys
Whose only talent was to kiss you senseless.
They all had sissy names—Marcel, Percy, Dewey;
Were thin as licorice and as chewy,
Sweet with a dark and hollow center. Floyd's

Cussing up a storm. You're bunkered in your
Aerie, I'm perched in mine
(Twin desks, computers, hardwood floors):
We're content, but fall short of the Divine.
Still, it's embarrassing, this happiness—
Who's satisfied simply with what's good for us,
When has the ordinary ever been news?
And yet, because nothing else will do
To keep me from melancholy (call it blues),
I fill this stolen time with you.

 

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WEEK 1

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