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Sunday Gathering
April 21 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading
Sunday, April 21, 2024
We Have Questions: How can we cultivate a deeper connection with nature and each other to foster joy, renewal, and wisdom in these challenging times?
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Teacher: Tanya Cabala is a lifelong resident of Muskegon County, earned a BS at GVSU, started a concerned citizen group to focus on cleaning up pollution, was hired in 1991 as Michigan director of the Lake Michigan Federation, helped launch local advisory groups for White Lake and Muskegon Lake, then both toxic hotspots. She has served in several civic roles in Whitehall, and ran for state representative in 2018. Now she is the Lakeshore Outreach Organizer for WMEAC (West Michigan Environmental Action Council).
Musician: Michelle Held, a stalwart in the contemporary folk music scene in Detroit for over a decade, has earned Honorable Mentions in the past three Telluride Troubadour Contests. She released her debut single “The World Moves On” last November. Tom Paxton says of Michelle: “Two years ago, I told Michelle that I thought she had the gift. I am changing ‘thought’ to ‘know.’”
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Music: Michelle Held
Gathering Host: Chrys Moelter-Gray
Music: Michelle Held
Meditation: Rod Van Abbema
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Tanya Cabala
I want to stand by the river in my finest dress. I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness. I want to dance for the renewal of the world. We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities. Imagine the access we would have to different perspectives, the things we might see through other eyes, the wisdom that surrounds us. We don’t have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. Imagine how much less lonely the world would be.
Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift. – Robin Wall Kimmerer, excerpts from Braiding Sweetgrass:
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of
Plants
Music: Michelle Held
Gathering Host: Chrysteen Moelter-Gray
Music: Michelle Held
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