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Dear Friends of Common
Light,
As Anais Nin has eloquently stated, “Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one’s courage.”
November has brought a good beginning to Common Light Meetingplace’s
second year, “Dialogues on Courage,” and we now want to alert you to what will
be happening in December and January.
For those who live in the area, we hope that you will be drawn to join us
at one or more of these events--all intended to deepen our reservoirs of courage
and therefore expand our lives. To all of you, we send warm greetings at the
year’s turning, hoping that 2006 will find our species renewed in the courage needed to act in accord with
the dignity and compassion which define our humanity.
NEXT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, we look forward to a retreat designed as a DAY
OF MINDFULNESS in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition led by LARRY WARD and PEGGY ROWE
from the Lotus Institute in The following week, on WEDNESDAY DECEMBER
7, the video documenting the problematic aspects of contemporary merchandising
epitomized by WALMART will be shown at You are welcome
to join the final of BARBARA NERENZ-KELLEY’s six sessions of Meditative Circle
Dancing for autumn on THURSDAY THIS WEEK, DECEMBER 1, GAETANA FRIEDMAN’S “Intuitive Painting:
Exploring the Artist Within” is also just concluding with ten inspired persons
painting from the source. On
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 7 to 8:30 pm, in the context of a video, she will lead a
discussion on “active imagination,” C.G. Jung’s term for a process of active
engagement with one’s unconscious.
In “Appointment with the Wise Old Dog: Dream Images in a Time of Crisis,”
conductor/cellist David Blum recorded his own medical and spiritual journey, and
how he found ways to bring his dreams into his life through music and pastel
drawings. Yo-Yo Mah introduces the
30-minute film.
A
reading/discussion group will meet THREE TIMES IN JANUARY to consider the
relevance of Albert Camus’ novel THE PLAGUE to an ethic of nonviolence. This will be led by TONY BING, whose
Charles Lectures on Camus at The fourteen people who
shared the first weekend, “Women Claiming Courage,” led by MariJo Moore and
Laura Donaldson, found new meanings and energy for their own courageous
living. This workshop became a
transformative event as we interacted wholeheartedly with stories, poems,
history, and each other’s improvisational creative writing. For pictures, see
our website at www.commonlight.org. Yours in the
common light, Beth and Mel
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