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What Are We Learning?

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Rev. Tina Squire from the Sky Island UU Church, during the Baja 4 Sunday Service on April 26 (CLICK HERE to view), led a ritual inviting us to name what are learning right now. She takes inspiration from a poem by Nancy Cross Dunham. 

Rev. Tina is collecting your responses at her email: Russkirev@gmail.com

In the ritual, Rev. Tina asks:
What have you learned about grief?
What have you learned about love?
What have you learned about anger?
What have you learned about hope?
"I hope you take time
​each day to honor
these feelings."


Rev. Tina Squire
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"Vivid Emotions" by Olha Darchuk
"What I'm Learning..."
by Nancy Cross Dunham


what I'm learning about grief ...
is that it need not be
a heavy gray shawl
to wrap myself in,
clutching my arms tightly
across my chest

nor ...
need it be
a granite rock
that I should try
to push away

neither is it ...
... at least, no longer ...
a vast dark ocean
ready to pick me up
and slap me down
without warning

what I'm learning about grief ...
is that it is not me,
but that it offers
to become a friend

a friend ...
who will lightly lay a hand
on my shoulder
when tears come in the dark

a friend ...
who will laugh
out loud with me
at remembered silly moments

a friend ...
who can still hear
the music of our life

what I'm learning about grief ...
is that this friend
doesn't intend
to leave me

but promises
to hold my hand
to carry my memories

a friend ...
who will bear witness to my love
as I venture
toward the next day
and the following night


  
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