Thank you for watching our session highlighting the practice and embodiment of gratitude in our daily lives. This video features the "Gift of Creation/Nature".
Land Acknowledgement from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Electa Quinney Institute:
We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.
My Work is Loving the World - Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird -
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
Which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever
Some ideas to cultivate gratitude for creation:
- Take a walk in nature
- Watch a nature documentary
- Eat seasonally
- Spend time watching the sun rise and set
- Volunteer for cleanups in your community, or simply make it a point to pick up litter when you are outside
- Conserve your water usage
- Plant trees
- Use energy efficient appliances, lightbulbs, etc.
- Donate to environmental justice organizations
- Use reusable bags and beverage containers
- Walk, ride your bike or take the bus instead of driving
- Recycle and compost
- Breathe deeply
- Use artworks from the Haggerty collection to investigate artists' choice in their creations and to understand our connection to nature
12 ноя 2020
