Love The Daily Working: Bow to holy ground
““You have to love the daily working,” suggested choreographer Merce Cunningham. He was talking about what it took to be a dancer… you have to lovingly and gracefully be willing to return to the basics each and every day….” Michelle Franci-Donnay
Layers of willow fronds fall to the earth
a dancer’s petticoat weeps
curtsies to rambunctious wind
again and again and again begins
bends, butterfly stretches, plie, tendu, degage, every day
rather than grasp for glory
weeping willow dancer kowtows to practice ground
warms up works out repeats
again and again and again
Throw back the sheets pray
walk the dog make coffee face the writing day
curtsy to virgin page
again and again and again wait
wonder, write, erase always begin again
toes tucked in wordless ground
rather than grasp for glory
weeping willow writer kowtows to wordless space
warms up works out repeats
again and again and again
Obedient to practice
I am free as lush willow fronds
bowing to bountiful earth
Michelle Franci-Donnay’s quote is found in to today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney, a series of daily reflections from the Spiritual Wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Throughout the book we hear the voices of St. Ignatius as well as many great thinkers and writers, long gone and present day, each uniquely revealing the way of finding God in all things.And that is my intention; to find God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality in whatever presents itself to me each day in 2024.
Each day I read, reflect and write on the selection, hoping to articulate the ways in which I come to know God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality via personal experience, impelled by the leading of my inner life.
INVITATION
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