ADVENT LETTER #15
Change & Evolve goes Christmas 🎄
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
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📚My Poem of the Day
„Sympathy“ by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 –1906) to me describes how it feels when you are not free, not able to move and live freely, the way you want and need. We know what it feels like to be the bird in a cage, seeing what is out there but not being a part of it - more than ever.
Sympathy
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—
I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats its wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting—
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!
🎶My Song of the Day
Today’s choice is an amazing song by Solomon Burke, “None Of Us Are Free” - could be the hymn of our time!
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👀Impressions of the Day
By now you know how much I love Lake Starnberg…
💭Thought of the Day
In times where our freedom is being restricted a little more by our polititans every day - no matter where we live - don’t ever accept this as the “new normal”.
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Wishing you a happy day!
Yours
Tanja 🤗
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