Arise, love, arise, love, in song and in story
Happy solstice! Tomorrow the sun starts to turn back into the dark; we'll hold the longest day's light all year. We're going to need it.
I say that, of course, because of the politics. Kara Hurvitz has cogent thoughts on yesterday's executive order: "Zero Tolerance and Maximum Trauma: An Early Analysis of 'Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation.'" See also the ACLU. The planned nationwide protests on June 30 are still going ahead. I'll be there.
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nineweaving for Theatre@First's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Nathan Tufts Park. I saw the opening last Thursday and have been looking forward to better weather and fewer Logan flyovers. spatch is playing Egeus by way of Sam the Eagle.
I was woken early this morning by both a phone call and construction, which is significantly less fun than a serenade from a true lover, but managed to get back to sleep until about noon. I am counting this as a victory over the day.
"Listen to me, boy. The Light is more than a pun on the name of an old dynasty, just as the Darkness is more than a pun on the name of the Manchus. There's a whole world of darkness around us that's trying to put out the Light in each of us. There's a light in you. If you could only learn to let it out, you could do anything."
—Laurence Yep, Mountain Light (1985)
I say that, of course, because of the politics. Kara Hurvitz has cogent thoughts on yesterday's executive order: "Zero Tolerance and Maximum Trauma: An Early Analysis of 'Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation.'" See also the ACLU. The planned nationwide protests on June 30 are still going ahead. I'll be there.
Tonight I am meeting
nineweaving for Theatre@First's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Nathan Tufts Park. I saw the opening last Thursday and have been looking forward to better weather and fewer Logan flyovers. spatch is playing Egeus by way of Sam the Eagle.I was woken early this morning by both a phone call and construction, which is significantly less fun than a serenade from a true lover, but managed to get back to sleep until about noon. I am counting this as a victory over the day.
"Listen to me, boy. The Light is more than a pun on the name of an old dynasty, just as the Darkness is more than a pun on the name of the Manchus. There's a whole world of darkness around us that's trying to put out the Light in each of us. There's a light in you. If you could only learn to let it out, you could do anything."
—Laurence Yep, Mountain Light (1985)
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It does match a song I know about George Fox. It's by Sydney Carter, but I couldn't find the recording I have on YouTube:
There's a light that is shining in the heart of a man
There's a light that was shining when the world began
There's a light that is shining in the Turk and the Jew
A light that is shining, Friend, in me and in you