I have been reading as much as possible which has been absolutely wonderful. Yesterday I took a break from my Benedictine rhythm of work, prayer and study and went to see the movie Bully. It was a disturbing movie but in the end hopeful. It is one of those important movies, certainly not entertaining but still one I would highly encourage people to see.
After the movie, I felt very unsettled and so while my daughter was involved in something near the Riley Skate Park in Farmington Hills, I went and sat at the park and watched kids skateboard while I read. It was a healing experience as there were all kinds of kids there - from elementary age to young adult, several different races as well as those with a ton of tattoos to those who looked as though they had on a school uniform. Everyone got along, lots of good skateboarding. It was nice.
The daily office readings have been full of landscape images. I am seeing them through an entirely different lens having finished The Solace of Fierce Landscapes. I also finished Diana Butler Bass' new book Christianity After Religion, another enlightening book. She does a great job of interpreting the whole spiritual but not religious movement that has been afoot for many years. She does an in-depth analysis of the current spiritual awakening.
When it comes to religion, the Great Turning is less of a turn toward something completely new and unknown; it is more of a Great Returning to an ancient understanding, of finding a forgotten path of wonder and awe through the wilderness of human chaos and change. p. 97
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