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Sunday Gathering
August 6, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday, August 6, 2023
We Have Questions: Can We Grow into Ancestors?
C3 teacher Kent Dobson helps people orient their life to be in deeper relationship with Mystery, the shape of their own soul, and to a meaningful sense of their unique voice in the world.
Thrown-Out Bones, a San Francisco-based band of rediscovery and celebration.Their music is experimental and unique, every song a driving search for the truth of being human, and every fan essential to the collective energy of the experience. With over ten years of playing together, members Liliana Urbain (formerly of Band of Lovers, who played for us a few times), Nick Chang, and Sam Miller have honed a unique, multi-genre musical language that slides from jazz to funk to rock to psychedelic jam breakdowns. The joy they have playing together is infectious and electric.
Music: Thrown Out Bones
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Thrown Out Bones
Meditation: Margaret Willey
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Kent Dobson
Make a nesting now, a place to which the birds can come, think of Kevin’s prayerful palm holding the blackbird’s egg and be the one, looking out from this place who warms interior forms into light. Feel the way the cliff at your back gives shelter to your outward view and then bring in from those horizons all discordant elements that seek a home.
Be taught now, among the trees and rocks, how the discarded is woven into shelter, learn the way things hidden and unspoken slowly proclaim their voice in the world. Find that far inward symmetry to all outward appearances, apprentice yourself to yourself, begin to welcome back all you sent away, be a new annunciation, make yourself a door through which to be hospitable, even to the stranger in you.
See with every turning day, how each season makes a child of you again, wants you to become a seeker after rainfall and birdsong, watch now, how it weathers you to a testing in the tried and true admonishes you with each falling leaf, to be courageous, to be something that has come through, to be the last thing you want to see before you leave the world.
Above all, be alone with it all, a hiving off, a corner of silence amidst the noise, refuse to talk, even to yourself, and stay in this place until the current of the story is strong enough to float you out.
Ghost then, to where others in this place have come before, under the hazel, by the ruined chapel, below the cave where Coleman slept, become the source that makes the river flow, and then the sea beyond. Live in this place as you were meant to and then, surprised by your abilities, become the ancestor of it all, the quiet, robust and blessed Saint that your future happiness will always remember.
David Whyte, Coleman’s Bed Music:
Thrown Out Bones
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Thrown Out Bones
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