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Sunday Gathering
May 12 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading
Sunday, May 12, 2024
We Have Questions: Is Motherhood Fulfilling?
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Teacher: Tabitha Blanski is a lover of stories and wears many stories of her own – filmmaker, photographer, mother, member of the C3 community. Her first documentary film, The Birth of a Mother, follows three new mothers as they are initiated into parenthood and discover that, in addition to keeping a new human alive, part of them will have to die. The film is currently in post- production.
Musician: Josh Rose, teacher and song craftsman, grew up in the northern woodlands and fine-tuned his songwriting in the borderlands. He has spent the past ten years touring the Midwest, teaching, writing, and creating a rich body of work. He is the type of writer who labors over every word and wants his song to be injected into the listener’s permanent being.
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Music: Josh Rose
Gathering Host: Nelleke Knarr
Music: Josh Rose
Meditation: Bob Kleinheksel
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Tabitha Blanski
The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing that you are a nice person: once you have children, you realize how wars start.
– Fay Weldon, Torn In Two
…we are seeking a wild and wise mother. We are not, cannot be, separate from her. Our relationship to this soulful mother is meant to turn and turn, and to change and change, and it is a paradox. This mother is a school we are born into, a school we are students in, a school we are teachers at, all at the same time, and for the rest of our lives. Whether we have children or not, whether we nourish the garden, the sciences, or the thunderworld of poetics, we always brush against the wild mother on our way to anywhere else. And this is as it should be.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
– Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Music: Josh Rose
Gathering Host: Nelleke Knarr
Music: Josh Rose
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