Answer the Call
An Online Course Exploring Our Offering to Earth at This Critical Time
Every other Sunday February 18 – April 28, 2024
11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Pacific Time
For further information and questions, email: shoshabai@gmail.com
As we pause and listen deeply to how we are being called to respond at this time of crisis on our planet, we can discover our own unique contribution to life. Meeting twice a month online for two hours, we will draw upon wisdom and practices from spiritual teachings and psychology, music and poetry, journaling and discussion to explore how to make a positive difference with our life in a way that is also deeply fulfilling. Awakening our inherent creativity, we will support each other in breaking through the patterns and beliefs that might hold us back from offering the fullness of who we are in our love for the Earth.
Something about what this workshop is offering touches me deeply. I thought I was past the point of putting attention to the issue being addressed, feeling that I no longer have the energy to make a contribution, feeling that all I can manage to do is maintain my therapy practice and attend to the business of my own life. But something much larger is calling here, and I am willing to explore it.
-- Susan Tieger, MFT
"What work is the universe asking of us at this time? What work is the Earth asking of us at this time? What work are the other species asking of us at this time? What work are the youth asking of us at this time? What work are the future generations of humans asking of us? What work are our hearts asking of us?"
-–Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing
“Mystery” sung by Susan Osborne
Photo compilation by Kathleen T. Carr
Clearing
by Martha Postlethwaite
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world,
so worthy of rescue.
Diffraction
by Diane Ackerman
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain
everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else. (Excerpt)
"Answer the Call” (excerpt)
Written and sung by Elias Alexander for the stage play “Taking Our Life” by Shoshana Alexander
