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Sunday Gathering
April 7 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Program and Reading
Sunday, April 7, 2024 Damage Done, Damage Undone
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Teacher: Jack Ridl is the author or editor of 14 works of literature. His collections have been named Best Poetry Collection by Foreword Review and The Society of Midland Authors; and he has been nominated 17 times for the Pushcart Prize. Named Michigan Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation, more than 90 of his students have earned their MFA and more than 100 are published, several having won first book awards.
Musicians: Ruth and Max Bloomquist need no introduction to the C3 family; they have been playing at C3 Gatherings for years, and they have been playing music together since 1975! They are “…veritable folk music legends in Michigan, captivating audiences with their songs, their harmonies and their folk-infused charm.” (John Sinkevics)
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Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Gathering Host: Beth Buelow
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Meditation: Andy Cawthon
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Jack Ridl
The chickadees would take a seed, fly into the branches of the hemlocks surrounding the house and batter to get to the meat. Time and time again they returned. Peter tried to count then wondered why, stopped and thought about what to plant in the pots, where he would place them within the striped grass that made a nest for the house to sit within. He liked thinking he had nested. He liked thinking everything here could be taken away. He had cosmos, impatiens—no perennials until bloom and loss became a ritual, sacred. There was a breeze. There was the tea. And then there was a goldfinch, just one, at the thistle feeder, its startle of yellow and black seamless within its feathers. Peter watched as it took the seed, sat above him. He watched as the bird flew to the feeder, flew back to the same branch. St. Peter and the goldfinch here in the day’s beginning. He could not bow his head. He knew joy’s coupled sorrow. He knew that this was time. He knew what the earth knew.
—Jack Ridl, Excerpt from Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Gathering Host: Beth Buelow
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
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