A Ritual for Trying Times

On our most recent Regional Coordinator conference call, we decided that a ritual could help us stay connected as a community of alumni across the distances we are still facing. Pacifica alumni tend to be far flung as it is, and now adding quarantining into the mix, it’s more challenging than ever to nurture our alumni community ties.

In keeping with our commitment to tend the soul in and of the world, we decided that this ritual would best serve us if we each, at our distances, and in our own chosen places, went outside at a certain time, and meditated on the same words.  A poem was chosen by one of the coordinators each of four weeks, (Oct 22, Oct 29, Nov 5, and Nov 12) and was sent out via email to the Regional Coordinators and posted on FaceBook.

Knowing other alumni across the nation were pausing for the same few minutes, reading the same words, provided a boost to our sense of community and gave us a few moments of peace under the trees.  

Feel free to send photos of your special trees or places, and/or add poems for others to share, to Jill Griffin, jill.griffin@my.pacifica.edu

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