Tuesday, June 16, 2020

June 14, 2020


Weather

On a scrap of paper in the archive is written
I have forgotten my umbrella. Turns out
in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher,
is without. We scramble in the drought of information
held back by inside traders. Drop by drop. Face
covering? No, yes. Social distancing? Six feet
under for underlying conditions. Black.
Just us and the blues kneeling on a neck
with the full weight of a man in blue.
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds.
In extremis, I can’t breathe gives way
to asphyxiation, to giving up this world,
and then mama, called to, a call
to protest, fire, glass, say their names, say
their names, white silence equals violence,
the violence of again, a militarized police
force teargassing, bullets ricochet, and civil
unrest taking it, burning it down. Whatever contracts keep us social compel us now
to disorder the disorder. Peace. We’re out to repair the future.
There’s an umbrella by the door, not for yesterday but for the weather that’s here.
I say weather but I mean a form of governing that deals out death and names it living.
I say weather but I mean a November that won’t be held off.
This time nothing, no one forgotten. We are here for the storm
that’s storming because what’s taken matters.

- Claudia Rankine

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Our ZHS on-line schedule:  
  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org)  
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please offer bows for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and others who have died from police brutality
  • Please offer bows for Dottie Kelly, Misha's family member, who died of lung disease on May 20th
  • Please offer bows for Annette Merrill, Misha's cousin, who died on May 13th from lung cancer
  • Please offer bows for Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University, who died from COVID-19
  • Please continue to offer bows for Nick Battaglia, Camille Spar's father, who died Aprill 13th 
  • Please continue to offer bows for the family of Alison Templeton, a PS parent, who died on April 1st 
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Beverly Klemme whose beloved horse Saphire died May 26th
    • Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy
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