June 2016 Blog Posts (8)

I publish a exquisite text by David Sparenberg, who is also a member of Peace for the Soul.

Through all of suffering (and life is long and often hard), the brave stand strong. Before the beauty that soars beyond the limitations of time and circumstances, tears are copious and exceed control.



One hears a song, sees a smile,…

I have come into this world to see this:   

the sword drop from men's  hands even at the height of their arc of anger  

because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound

and it is His - the Christ's, our Beloved's.

I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as we pass thru' this miraculous

existence we share on the way to even a greater being of soul,

a being of ecstatic…

"Like most women, my youth was dedicated to raising a family. While music was always my solace, I was unable to make it a priority. Life has dealt me with many blows, each worse than the other. When my husband passed away, my beloved daughter encouraged me to pursue my passion. But soon, I lost her too. To get over the grief, I started to pursue music more…

Dire Straits were an English rock band, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler, David Knopfler, John Illsey and Pick Withers. This amazing song Iron Hand was released on the album On every street in 1991. It relates to the Battle of Orgreave during the UK miners' strike.

Lyrics:



with all the clarity of dream

the sky…

During a drought, a woman in Wyoming filled her mouth with water and lay down quietly. A hummingbird is drinking from her gift.

"The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in."

From the solemn gloom of the temple 

children run out to sit in the dust,

God watches them play and forgets the priest.  

 ∼ Rabindranath Tagore ∼ …

Lotte Reiniger, the German film-maker who brought a European slant to the traditionally Asian art of silhouette puppetry, would have been 117 today.



Born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin in 1899, Reiniger started experimenting with shadow puppet productions while still at school, making her silhouettes act out scenes from Shakespeare to entertain her schoolmates.





Cinderella (Aschenputtel) - Lotte Reiniger…