This evening I’m spending time in what I call my ‘writing room’ – which is really the bonus room in the basement I’ve appropriated as my space for writing, crafting, spiritual practices, exercise, candle burning, wine sipping, and adult coloring books. (Adult as in meditative, not as in ‘sexy’ although, now that I mention it, why shouldn’t they be both?)
ANYWAY, tonight I’m reading some more James Luther Adams while listening to Beyonce’s new album “Cowboy Carter” (songs in released order, as one should.) Just posted the below on FB and wanted to capture it here rather than leave it to the voracious blackhole of corporate social media:
I must amend my previous post – tonight’s spiritual practice is listening to “Cowboy Carter” while still making my way through JLA’s Berry Street essay.
“The ‘restraints of reason’ are inadequate for entering the ‘war within the cave.’ Merely intellectual education is not enough. The world has many educated people who know how to reason and they reason very well; but, curiously enough, many of them fail to examine the pre-established premises from which they reason, premises that turn out on examination to be antisocial, protective, camouflages of power.” -James Luther Adams, 1941. (Berry Street Essay, 1941.)
“Can we stand for something?
Now is the time to face the wind (Now is the time to face the wind)
Now ain’t the time to pretend
Now is the time to let love in (To let love in)
Together, can we stand?” – Beyonce, 2024.