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Lakota Grandmothers Rising! Mitaku Oyasin!

THE GHOST RIDERS One-Sheet(for sadavis, who has admired these wonderful folks…forever)

Please relax, and allow yourself to become a Lakota time traveler for just a bit, perhaps aided by the auspices of a Time Lord in the fashion of Doctor Who, or even by way of the dreams of the stories woven for you by the many oral histories passed down through the generations by the grandmothers and grandfathers whose chosen jobs were to keep the memories alive.

You are riding your pony across the vast reaches of the high plains, scouting for a new site for your people’s next camp.  The grass-scented wind in your hair lifts your spirits on this bright day in moon of falling leaves, the play of shadow and light caused by the plump clouds overhead makes you feel more alive than you can almost bear.  Your spirit soars as another scent wafts over the air: cottonwood leaves, their fragrance enhanced as they turn golden in preparation to fall to the floor of the river bottom, at which waterway they stand as sentinels, emblematic of the cycles of life, death, and rebirth, the hoop circle of life. You are already imagining them budding again in the moon of the tender grass, after a season of hard winter moons creating their stark, bare forms … In prayerful gratitude to Wakan Tanka, you cry: ‘Hoka hey!  It’s a good day to die, Grandfather!  Life is good!’

The buffalo scouts have seen a great host of them traveling not far to the north of you, and your thoughts turn to the people behind you, their travois loaded with the tipis, poles, and supplies that will soon become a village near this river you sense will be a comfortable base for the coming hunt.  You picture the children’s gleaming eyes, excited to prove their worth as helpers in this undertaking that is so essential to their families, and more importantly, to all of the people.

As you approach the mighty cottonwoods, and slow your pony a bit, your eyes see glimpses of the shining water through the trees.  But your mind is half on the images of your first Sundance one moon ago, and the many days of prayer and intentional suffering that you were proud to have endured for the well-being of your people.  Vestiges of the pain from the sharp and thin bone skewers the holy man had pierced through your chest, then fastened to the Great Tree in the center of the circle…praying to the spirits of the four directions, until you fell backward, releasing the bone from your flesh.  Aiiy, such hard and sweet misery it was.  But the people will have meat and robes this winter, and the children will grow strong with the berries and plants that the river’s moisture provides, and the white man’s sickness will not reach us here this far to the south!

The white men were killing the buffalo for robes and tongues, leaving their skinned carcasses to rot in the sun.  The white men kept coming and coming, rivers of them wanting to fence off the land…and kill you.  You were herded like beasts into smaller and smaller ‘reservations’, where your people starved because the food they promised you in exchange…never arrived.  Some warriors left the reservation to hunt for food for the people; sometimes they killed white people who attacked them, sometimes they were killed.  We knew that they wanted us gone.  They’d stolen your children and carried them off to white families and Indian schools, where they were forbidden to be Lakota, and turned into white children with no families to succor them.

But one night at the Sundance during the moon of red cherries, knowing of the plans for the soldiers to force your people into small plots of land, Sitting Bull had a vision: soldiers would fall into their camp like grasshoppers from the sky.  He and the other tribes organized the warriors who refused to die like penned cattle, and made an alliance with several other tribes.  They camped by the Little Bighorn River.

You can see the battle that ensued when George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry came to annihilate your people, not knowing how many you were, nor of your firm resolve to live another day.  It’s the stuff of legend that you witness, and will only know later how flawed and poorly executed Custer’s plans had been.  But what you see is your warriors in splendorous attire, painted with the symbols of the visions, fighting as though they were all Crazy Horse, who believed bullets could not pierce his flesh!  Ah, you smell the gunpowder, see the blood…and can’t help rejoicing when the white soldiers die in massive numbers.  You may or may not have seen Old Yellow Hair go down to his death, but if you had, I reckon that you would have cheered.  The white man’s belief in God-given Manifest Destiny was in tatters… for now.

The tribes scattered, knowing that the army would seek vengeance.  The ensuing chases of different clans and tribes you can see as though from a vantage point in the sky.  You witness the privations, the capitulations, the pain of the decisions thrust on the leaders.  Nothing pretty came of any of it; the soldiers and the government were determined to end The Indian Problem once and for all.

Whooosh; the times are now so very hard.  The people have been herded onto lands decreed by the Great Father in Washington, and are starving and threadbare with broken promises.  The Sundance has been forbidden, so your spirits are weak.  In secret, some are beginning to practice the Paiute Wovoka’s Ghost Dance, sent to him in a vision; the hope it brings is spreading throughout the plains.  Wovoka had said that if the people practiced it in an impeccable manner, the white man would be vanquished from the lands, and the buffalo and all the Ancestors would be brought back to life.  In addition, carefully sewn Ghost Dance shirts would make the wearers’ flesh impervious to bullet fire.The 60 million buffalo (Tatanka) that had roamed the plains were now all but extinct now; fear of Lakota Oyate extinction must have permeated the air.

But now, sensing that the dance spoke of a major rebellion, the anxious white settlers had convinced the government to initiate a program to rid your people from the lands that they coveted.  The shining metal, gold, had been discovered in the sacred Black Hills Paha Sapa), and they had stolen it back from you…since your people would not sell it to them.  For who can claim to own the land that the creator has given to all of us, providing food, shelter, water and holy sites?

Officers were sent to arrest the ringleader Sitting Bull; he and several of his band were shot dead in the ensuing struggle.  The rest fled to various encampments, then fled again…  One day 350 of your Minneconjou cousins were surrounded by soldiers, disarmed, and driven to Wounded Knee Creek (?ha?kpé Ópi Wakpála) under Porcupine Butte, and wrought a furious vengeance on your people, murdering 300 of you in cold blood: women, children, and men.  Women and children, fleeing the battle, some with infants in their arms…were gunned down like dogs.

When civilians were hired by the army days later to bury them, they were loaded into a mass grave on the hill above the battle site.  Several live infants were found, wrapped in their dead mothers’ arms.  Perhaps you are seeing yourself as one of them, feeling yourself as one of them, and are wondering what may have become of you later.

Or perhaps you are watching those few still left being loaded onto wagons, being sent back to the Pine Ridge Reservation.  You may even be among them, grieving and defeated, stunned into silence.  Hoka hey; it’s a good day…to die…You certainly don’t ask to be shown the arguments among the military afterward, nor to see the several Medal of Honor recipients whose awards were for chasing an murdering those escaping women and children.  Or perhaps you do; who am I to say?  Did you ask to hear of the callous and ugly support offered by so many notables of the day?  The newspaper editors for whom whole cities and counties in the West have been named?

A simple form of Abracadabra  magic brings you to the gates of the prison on Alcatraz, and you are shown those doughty American Indian Movement folks who had decided to Occupy it as an example of what they claimed your people were promised in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, granting the Lakota and associated tribes the rights to property abandoned by the federal government.  One notable Occupier was poet and musician John Trudell, who broadcast a daily radio program from inside the prison, the pesky devil.  That bold move was one of the early harbingers of the First American roots movement to reclaim their languages, spirituality, cultural traditions, and above all: pride.

Now I can see that you are being whisked of in time to a second Wounded Knee time, this one the iteration of AIM and associated activist tribal members Occupying the church near the site of the original massacre.  This daring feat, Alcatraz, and other instances of Native American and the Lakota, having stood up to The Man, demanding rights and sovereignty, helped to spawn COINTLEPRO, whose evil doings were meant to crush dissidence of any sort, but special attention was paid to uppity Blacks and uppity Reds.  Danger: ‘wild people of color rising up’ caused white America to quake in their boots.  White man fear: what is its origin?  That question has launched a thousand ships, erudite essays, and psychological treatises.  Never mind.

The Occupation was spurred by the failure of your tribe to impeach and remove from office one evil BIA-backed Richard Wilson, under whose rule began a reign of terror on the traditionalists at Pine Ridge, over 50 of Wilson’s enemies were shot and killed, with absolutely no legal consequences.  Dickie’s private militia, called the GOON Squad (Guardians of the Ogallala Nation) was closely allied with the FBI, who had brought them weapons to use against their own people.  Use them they did.  Was one of the murdered possibly your grandmother or grandfather?

Ah, I see you are nodding in remembrance of those hideous days.  They culminated in the killings of two FBI agents who were on the Rez helping Dickie.  Yes, Leonard Peltier was convicted of their murder, and will die in jail, even though the trial was crap, exculpatory evidence was withheld, in another show trial travesty of justice.  Someone had to pay; he has.

I feel your nose quiver with the scent of the Indigenous sovereign rights and determination movements all over Turtle Island that are wafting through the air; what a glorious and refreshing spirit it brings!  And the sounds that accompany it: drumming.  One heartbeat…da-dum…one heartbeat…da-dum…the simplest song of freedom: the rhythm of the drums…the round dances of Idle No More, their calls to a Sovereign Summer.  The Lakota Grandmothers Tour, culminating in their failed attempt to deliver articles of Genocide against the US government to Ban Ki Moon just last month.  See now the Lakota training sessions to block the Tarsands pipeline, and the marches to force the closing of the liquor stores in White Clay, Nebraska, just off the statutorily alcohol-free reservation’s boundary.  ‘You will not profit any more from keeping our members saturated in alcohol!’ the Bravehearts cry.

‘Arise, Lakota Oyate!  Rise up, all Turtle Island Indigenous!  Teach the young about the Old Ways, and remind them of their power to change the world, and bring health and peace to our people!  Remind them them of our cry: ‘Mitaku Oyasin!’, or ‘All of us are relatives’.  And teach them, and people of all races and creeds these great words of the holy man Black Elk:

‘The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka , and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.’

With the memory of all you have seen on your travels, please enjoy this bit of a new documentary made in conjunction with the Lakota Grandmothers Rising! Alliance.

You can watch the two hour version here, and read more about their group and its aims here.  Samples of letters to write or email Ban Ki Moon are here.

(cross-posted at Café  (image courtesy of Dan Goldman, via Flickr commons)

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The Truth Will Out

GaddafiMy mother was a great believer in the adage that the truth will always come out in the end. The events of the past few weeks surrounding the release of the Lockerbie bomber and the many accusations over trading of one prisoner for the right to drill for oil have finally brought the truth to the surface.

Jack Straw has effectively admitted there was a link between a trade agreement between Libya and the UK, and an agreement on prisoner exchange arrangements. If that was not sufficient controversy we are also told no attempt was made to follow the American example and get compensation for the Irish injured by bombs made with explosives provided by Libya. It was deemed too risky a subject to raise and could have jeopardised the trade talks.

The rehabilitation of Libya has been at a great cost to the reputation of the country and the government. Colonel Gaddafi must be smiling at the thought he got exactly what he wanted while making one of the world’s leaders look a complete fool.

Guilty By Circumstance, Er, Not This Time

jack strawIts interesting to see Jack Straw , the Justice Secretary, wriggling like a worm on a hook as he tries to convince a very sceptical public that there was no link between the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi and trade deals with the Libyan Government. In letters leaked to the press its clear negotiations over prisoner exchange protocols between the UK and Libya were adjusted to help trade negotiations.

The fact these happened two years ago do make the link to recent events very tenuous, but then the case against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was equally tenuous. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence and prosecution claims were never explained or proved. How the case containing the bomb got on the plane in Malta for a start. It was just accepted by the three Judges as fact, without any proof.

Trying to defend oneself against circumstantial evidence is impossible unless one can provide an indisputable alibi. Unfortunately Jack Straw has no such alibi and therefore will be considered as guilty of collusion by default. Fortunately it will not result in his loss of liberty unlike the misfortunate Lockerbie bomber.

Was Justice Served?

LockerbieAbdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is the only person found guilty of planting the bomb on the plane that exploded and crashed on to the town of Lockerbie. The trial, that took place in Holland in front of three judges has attracted critics and defenders ever since the guilty verdict was announced. Abdelbaset is now suffering from terminal cancer and may be let free to return to Libya on compassionate grounds.

Such a suggestion has created a divide between those who agree and those who wish to see him die in gaol wider than the Atlantic Ocean that divides them. Most of those killed were Americans and most Americans want to see him rot, its a part of their grieving process. However, there are a few who think Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is innocent, they include the father of one of the Scottish victims who was killed when the wreckage of the plane hit the ground.

The one factor that supports his view is the improbable fact that at a time of heightened security the bomb was put on board the plane in Malta and went undetected in Germany and London where the plane landed before heading off to cross the Atlantic. There was also a break-in through the perimeter fence at Heathrow airport the evening the plane passed through and the last stop before the bomb exploded. There are other inconsistencies that have convinced many people that guilty verdict was unsound. An appeal against the conviction is ongoing but unlikely to be concluded before Adbelbaset dies, release on compassionate grounds may not right a judicial wrong but at least he can die among his family.

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Reflection 1: Violence as Aesthetic in Film

A major theme in the topic of what makes violence in film art in Davy Ngyuen’s presentation of his paper, “Filming Fight Club Probably Hurt: Aesthetics and Violence” at Gonzaga’s Art, Nature, and the Sacred conference on January 28th, is the artist’s intention, or inspiration, of violence and the message violence sends to the audience.

Often the most graphic violence captures most of our attention. But it is the intention rather than the intensity of violence in film that defines art. Ngyuen distinguished between two kinds of intention of violence in film to understand what art is. The first is violence for the sake of being violent (what he calls gore-porn). Here, violence in film is superficial and exploitative and can be argued to lead audience members to become desensitized to its brutality, thus increasing their aggression. This is not art. On the other hand, the second is violence to critique or illuminate a point. Here, violence can be seen as liberating and providing outlets for the exploration of different topics. This is art. It demands analytical engagement from the viewer in order for its message to be understood and appreciated. An example that Ngyuen provided of these two kinds of violence in film is the movie SAW versus the Piano Teacher. This distinction between the use of gore and blood in mass market films and aestheticized violence helps answer the question, What is art?

Aestheticized violence has two categories, mythic violence and divine violence. Mythic violence focuses on making and preserving law and dealing with retribution. It is boundary-making and power-making violence. Divine violence, on the other hand, is the antithesis of mythic violence. Divine violence is law, boundary, and power destroying in favor of justice. It reaffirms the sovereignty of the self against the violence of the law. It is “lethal without shedding blood,” as Ngyuen said. These two kinds of violence stem from different inspirations and thus communicate wildly different messages to the audience.

Margaret Bruder, author of “Aestheticizing Violence, or How To Do Things with Style,” has a slightly different point of view.1 She argued that aestheticized violence demands to be stylistically excessive in a significant and sustained way. In movies with aestheticized violence, “the standard realist modes of editing and cinematography are violated in order to spectacularize the action being played out on the screen; directors use quick and awkward editing, canted framings, shock cuts, and slow motion, to emphasize the impacts of bullets or the spurting of blood.” While Ngyuen emphasized the artist’s intention of the violence as the main distinguisher of what is art, Bruder claimed that the style of shots and edits are what makes a violent film true aesthetical art.

Ngyuen and Bruder’s opinions relate to our class discussion about Plato. Ngyuen seems to follow Plato, emphasizing the intention, or inspiration, of the artist, while Bruder puts more emphasis on the skill, talent, and knowledge of the film maker, an area which Plato ignores. I think both inspiration and skill play role in determining what art is, although I agree more with Plato’s emphasis on inspiration. Art requires intention and inspiration, while mastery of talent and skill deserve great appreciation but is more optional.

Another theme in Ngyuen’s presentation was the relationship between the artist and the spectator. Ngyuen believed violence in art requires the spectator to undergo a certain level of risk by engaging in the art. Voilence in art commands the viewer take responsibility to engage on an emotional and taxing level. This risk and responsibility provides the foundation for a relationship between artist and viewer. It gives the viewer a primarily role in understanding the message of the aesthetics of violence. Without this engagement, violence loses its artistic value.

During the question and answer period, Ngyuen admitted that too much reading in to and analyzing art can be problematic because it results in stripping the art of its mysterious beauty. I appreciated this comment because I think the balance between unlocking the inner meaning of art to fully appreciate its wonder, and overanalyzing it so much that it becomes merely a collection of metaphors and symbols is important. Being a Mathematics and Economics major who enjoys understanding things systematically, I am eager to push myself in this class to allow art to speak to me organically. I hope to be able to find the balance art evokes between inner personal reflection and intentional conversation between artist and spectator.

1. Bruder, Margaret Ervin (1998). “Aestheticizing Violence, or How To Do Things with Style”. Film Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Archived from the original on 2004- 09-08. Retrieved 2007-06-08.

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The only place to be after the Oscars is the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter. And the fashion at the after-parties is always more interesting than on the Oscars red carpet. Here are our picks for the hottest after-party celebrity fashion.

Golden girl Lupita Nyong’o changed into a sea foam green Miu Miu gown with beaded fringe on the neckline. So pretty.

We much prefer Amy Adams’ one-shoulder Grecian Carolina Herrera after-party dress to her navy Oscars gown – what do you think?

Kate Hudson continued her Oscars fashion winning streak, changing into this gorgeous Zuhair Murad gown.

Reese Witherspoon looked lovely in a calf-length BOSS dress with plunging neckline (and side boob!).

Stunning Kate Beckinsale was statuesque in a golden Elie Saab dress – even her hair and skin is golden!

Diane Kruger always makes interesting fashion choices, and we love her sheer lace Valentino dress.

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With Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow
Special guest: Carole Nelson

(Carole) In the devotion, Spurgeon says, “Proclamation is made most freely, that every thirsty one is welcome. No other distinction is made but that of thirst.” And this is what just grabbed me. “Whether it be the thirst of avarice, ambition, pleasure, knowledge or rest, he who suffers from it is invited.” I went, oh my God, that’s me! That’s me! Oh, I am so aware of how I don’t thirst for Him. How my, my need is to thirst for Him, and I thirst for so many other things. And I read this, and it jumped off the page, and I got so excited.
(M) You qualify.
(Carole) I qualified; I qualified! Oh ‘my-gosh’. “The thirst may be bad in itself, and be a sign of, no sign of grace, but rather a mark of inordinate sin longing to be gratified with deeper draughts of lust. But it is not goodness in the creature which brings him the invitation, the Lord sends it freely and without respect of persons.” Oh, hallelujah! (Carole is laughing)
(M) So that was our, our great word from the Lord on the last day of 2010. And it’s so wonderful, but it took me back to the woman at the well, because what Jesus addressed was thirst. “If any man thirst let him come and drink of this well, and he’ll never thirst again. Rather, he’ll be full of the water himself, from within.” And so the reason He could reveal Himself to her was that she was honest, though sinful, about her thirst, hunger and thirst. She was searching for something, and I’m going to tell in about three more podcasts what she was really after. (Martha laughs) Oh, it was… We all rejoiced over it, because what did he say about Isaiah? “Come to the waters, all who are thirsty.”
(J) You know I got the… When she told me that, I brought that up, was that I was in the whole Ezekiel 14, that we were in, and Ezekiel 14:4 I believe it is, in the NASB I think that says it. But it says, “In keeping with their idolatry.” And what that said to me was, is that He will capture our hearts. The further… Can you…
(M) The verse you’ve always liked is in the first part of it. You’ve had this for years. You’ve had this revelation for years. It’s 14:4, “Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble, I will answer him according to the multitude of his idols, that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from me by their idols.”
(J) And, and one version, I don’t know, what version is this?
(M) This is New King James.
(J) Well in, I think it’s NASB it says, “in keeping with their great idolatry”, and when you read the whole context of it, it’s basically saying, ok, I know that you’re a whorish people, you know?  I know that’s who you are innately, is whorish. And what I saw was what Spurgeon said is, and in connection, they just tie together, that in keeping with your great idolatry, I will capture your heart. I will, I will see where your direction of your heart is, but I will come through your idolatry and capture your heart through that. Because He knows where our heart is, and He knows where our passion is, and He knows that there’s a hunger there, He knows that He has to go, in mercy, go in through that idolatry and come through that, to get our hearts, because that’s the direction our heart is in. Does that make sense?
(M) Yes, our idols represent our hunger and thirst.
(J) Absolutely.
(M) That’s what you’re saying.
(Carole) But the invitation was, there was only one qualification, thirst. He didn’t say what to… He didn’t say thirsty for, He didn’t even say thirsty for Me, He said those who are thirsty, come to Me.
(M) Well, here’s the scripture, Isaiah 55, “Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the water. And you, who have no money, come and eat. Come buy wine and milk without money, and without cost. Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance.” That’s what Spurgeon was referring to. Spurgeon is the great lover. He is, oh, goodness… Art Katz used to say Spurgeon could write on any verse of the Bible and make it into the love of God. But you’re right, John, the idols represent, I see it, our hunger. And her idolatry represented her enormous hunger and thirst for righteousness.
(J) Hmhmm, hmhmm.
(M) Her thirst for sin was a thirst for righteousness, and a thirst for God, and He knew it. That enormous thirst, alive in her, and truthful in her, she was well aware of her heart. “I have no husband.” The test was, will you tell Me the truth. And when she told Him the truth, then He could reveal Himself as the fountain that she was seeking. And that’s why she was satisfied, and He was satisfied. He drank of the Father, and she drank of the Spirit.
(J) Because you know every single woman in that community and in that village, was looking at her like, ‘oh, there’s that trashy woman that goes around with every man’.
(M) Probably so.
(J) But He revealed it to her; not because of her trashiness, but because she brought basically her trashiness, yeah here, I am trashy.
(M) She brought her thirst.
(J) And brought her thirst.
(M) It’s so amazing!
(J) It’s totally amazing.
(M) It fits Spurgeon’s insight; it fits the scripture, come, you who have nothing, just come and drink. Come to Me, and I will give you rest to your soul, and eat My flesh and drink My blood, and so He gave her the gospel. He gave her the entire shift of worship from a ‘house’ to ‘within’; the temple is within. We are the temple, and we worship within, so there is no ‘place’, there’s only living temples. What profound things He said to her, eternal. And the first time He said it to anyone, He said it to a woman representing who the Bride is. She, as we all are, complete sinners.
(J) And if you go to that scripture, “I come to the sick.” I don’t come to the healthy, I come to the sick; the sick need the doctor.
(M) And reveal it to the babes. What are babes? Full of hunger for everything. (Everyone laughs) So to be… You know I saw, when you are not hungry, that’s when you die. Or when you are killing yourself and despising your hunger. So hunger is always for God, it doesn’t matter what avenue it takes, it’s hunger for God. And as you see… Oh, there’s our, John’s rooster. (Rooster is crowing outside) He lives around the house with the cats; it’s amazing. Ok, this is what He said to her, “Jesus said, all who drink of this water will be thirsty again. Whoever drinks of the water of Life that I will give him, shall never, no never be thirsty anymore. But the water that I give him shall become a spring welling up, flowing, bubbling continually within him, unto, into, for eternal Life. And the woman said, “sir, give me this water.” She was thirsty; she was ready. “So that I may never get thirsty or have to come continually all the way here to draw.” And this is when He tested her, “Go call your husband, and come back.” And she said, “I have no husband.” And He said, “You have spoken truly.” “You’ve had five husbands, the man you’re now living with is not your husband, in this you have spoken truly.” Twice He said, you have told the truth.  That’s all God wants is for us to tell the truth to ourselves, to Him, and pretty much to each other. It’s just that. “Sir, I see You’re a prophet.” And then He goes on and tells her about worship. This story is the proof that Jesus will seek out the ones who are hungry and thirsty. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” The whole picture; it’s a whole picture; all the pieces together show us who God’s after, the thirsty and the hungry. And He had to go… If I remember what I’ve read correctly, He was going from Jerusalem to Galilee, and He said I must, I must go to Samaria. It was not on the path. He went to Jacob’s well, which Jacob is… And that’s where they were; they were at Jacob’s well that Jacob dug in ancient ancestry. And Jacob stands for common, deceitful, wicked, wandering humanity, and human strength to bless yourself. So the next, the next podcast is going to be on the human strength we use to satisfy the thirst.

Sir, Give Me This Water – Episode #214 – Shulamite Podcast

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HERE’S PAST-MIDNIGHT DISTILLATION of many a prayer or conversation I’ve been privileged to share across the years – and thresholds ecclesiastical, pastoral, practical and theological. Wisdom counsels always against “quick, slick, thick, too-certain preachers” – and I must pray each day to hear her …

Married sixty-two years and
My beloved has dementia

O God on High have mercy on me
Save me from quick, slick, thick, too-certain preachers
For nurses, bedpans and fearful tremblings are my
More immediate teachers
Married sixty-two years, you see, and
My beloved has dementia

O God on High have mercy on me

Hell! I’ve forgotten the pass-code
Where are my glasses? Where’s the bell?
Save me from quick, slick, thick, too-certain preachers
For I’m not quite sure if it’s beloved
Who’s the patient in here, or perhaps it’s me
Or him and me, or me and her as well –

Oh! Where’s the bell?
O God on High have mercy on me
Here’s Parsimonious heading this way
What, I ask you, dear God –
What shall I say?

Married sixty-two years …
Confirmed seventy-three years …
Christened eighty-five years …

Is beloved demented? – or is it me?
Or is it poor Parsimonious? – who preaches at me!

I’ve forgotten the pass-code. Where’s the bell?
Save me from the quick, too slick, thick …

God help me find the bell, and
Let thy Kingdom come
On this cold awful threshold
As it is in Heaven

Because someone’s demented round here
And it feels like Hell

SRM 21 viii 2013

2 thoughts on “BELOVED

  1. I can’t speak from the perspective of the one with dementia, or their partner, but I can speak as someone who is hugely privileged to share the lives of people with dementia and their families in the nursing home. Yes, it is hell. Partners in their eighties and nineties come day in day out to the nursing home to be with the one they have loved for a lifetime. They wouldn’t be anywhere else. The couples have been through all that life can send of great joys and deep sorrows. Their journey with dementia before they get to us has often been one of isolation, unbelievable, superhuman struggle and finally exhaustion to the point of breaking and beyond. With us the hell continues but in it, remarkably and surprisingly is discovered a bit of heaven. A heaven of sharing the care, of gradually, as they get to know us and our community, of being able to have confidence in us and to relax. To become a part of the community themselves, to be with other partners who have been on similar journeys. To not be alone – having felt alone for so long. To rediscover life in ways that are little but also huge.

    The home is full of loss. The residents have lost everything – independence, homes, relationships as they used to be, ability to communicate as they used to – and the very ability to think as they used to. And yet in all this loss and pain there is such magic that for me it is my greatest experience of God. In the loss of life as it was, comes a new life. Here all the people from the most able to the very weakest are an essential presence in the community. Each and every person contributes by being themselves. They all play their part in making the community what it is…. the Body of Christ.. There is great humour, great laughter, great mischief, happiness, sadness, confusion, fear, anxiety, contentment. There is everything under the sun. The greatest magic for me is the communication that becomes possible when thoughts and words no longer work properly. When thoughts and words don’t work it becomes possible to communicate at a deeper level – or perhaps it is always possible but our thoughts and words normally get in the way. Being able to connect with people where they are in their head, in their emotions, staying with them there until they are ready to move on. This is communion.

    Your poem is beautiful and powerful and I feel the words as I read them. And yet I’m not afraid for when my time comes.

    Much love Simon, and my thanks as always for you and for the great encouragement that you are from afar.

    Mary x

  2. Thank you, dear Mary, so much.

    We’ve spoken before of how “communion” is made and experienced in a million different ways – by countless different creative, praying, healing outstretched hands – and your beautiful and generous response to this poem sets out the majesty and the immortality of innumerable scenes in my own memory – behind the poem’s lines.

    One of my hopes for this poem has been that readers might notice that, even in confusion, despondency, despair – and even a degree of frustration with “too-certain preachers” – “the beloved”, struggling on the doorstep, still addresses “O God on High” with an intimacy and expectation not apparently possible with the parson here below – “what shall I say?”

    And – as you say – something of “Kingdom come” arrives, somehow, against the odds, in the midst of our immediate, searching, visceral experiences, “as it is in heaven”.

    And yes: thank you so much for communicating “at a deeper level”.

    Love for you, too. As ever x

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