01-22-25 Sangha Meeting Invitation

Touch, Being Held, and Belonging

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Our subject this meeting is inviting engagement regarding touch and being held, being seen, being heard - belonging. What we crave, conscious and unconscious, as part of a truly meaningful life, gaining presence and acceptance of who we are, who others are and what life is.

There are so many ways to hold and be held.
—James Crews, “The World Loves You Back”

Assume belonging.
—Augusta Kantra

The One Great Story

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

There are so many ways to hold and be held.
Like the way the white and black cat holds my lap
even as I hold her small weight.
Like the way a woman holds a canyon in her heart—
its red rock cliffs and snow-thick spruce—
even as the canyon holds her.
And when I hold silence and offer it my whole attention,
I feel how silence holds me,
cradles me with such profound nothing
it becomes everything.
What if we assume we belong?
Then we might find we are held
by strands of birdsong, by the even beat
of eagle’s wings, by the blue moonlight
that reflects off the snow.
I spent so much time worrying
about how to fit in, changing
how I dressed, how I spoke, what I did.
I somehow didn’t learn until recently
real belonging asks nothing of me
except I offer myself exactly as I am.
I become more myself when I trust I am held
as much by shadow as by light,
held by the one shared breath, by the one
infinite song, held by soil, held by sky,
held even by the human longing to be held,
held by the one great story
from which our lives cannot be unwritten.

The Sangha call is January 22nd,

7:00pm EST / 4:00pm PST / 2:00pm HST

Please join us for this Sangha meeting

using the LINK below.

The Sangha is a community examining how to live our best expression of wisdom and Elderhood. To be this expression, we must shift our way of thinking so that we transmute information and insights into wisdom. In this Sangha we offer experiences and discussions that inform the process of becoming Elder. We draw from the rich traditions of Eastern and Western practices, philosophies and psychologies.

With Gratitude - The Contemporary Elder Sangha

Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83343047692?pwd=H8dYsbU5Zgaf0wtnFdyzktMcKLBqmD.1