The Academy of American Poets defines a Found Poem as follows:
"Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street Read more [...]
from Denis Edwards, Ecology at the Heart of Faith" The Change of Heart that Leads to a New Way of Living on Earth
What then would a mysticism of ecological praxis look like? I suggest that it might embrace some of these kinds of experience:
Today's Life-Line is:
This is what I have learned: that what the wise ones discover, what some, though not all, of those who have been tenderized by life understand, what those who have awakened from the long night into the light of day come to see, Read more [...]
“Sister Mahala, Brother Weeps says that to become human and holy we must endure many trials, experience much suffering, undergo failures and unravelings, even humiliations,” said a young man.
“That’s true,” said Sister Mahala, “many Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
What the wise ones know--- the friends of God, the artisans of life, the apprentices of love--- is NOT TO WAIT for tragedy or trauma to wake them up to the incomprehensible surprise of being, to the dizzying resplendence of Read more [...]
A sage once said--- some insist it was Buddha, some say Rumi, others Beth Day or Mary Ann Pietzker or the Quakers or Sai Baba or Eleanor Roosevelt or their grandmother. It doesn’t much matter who--- that Before you speak, your words must pass through Read more [...]
I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]