Proposed Schedule of Gatherings with Themes and Featured Poems :
June 20 Introductions: Who is Hildegard? Why a Table?
Hildegard of Bingen , “Antiphon of Divine Wisdom”, “Antiphon of the Holy Spirit”
June 27 Mind and Soul
Mary Oliver “Mindfulness”, “When I am among the trees”, “Wild Geese”
William Wordsworth, “World Is Too Much With Us”, “There was a Boy”
Wendell Berry, “Wild Geese” , “The Peace of Wild Things”
Meister Eckhart “When I Was the Forest”, “The Hope of Loving”, “An Insidious Idol”
July 4, No Gathering, U. S. Independence Day
July 11 Time and Change
William Shakespeare, “Sonnets 15, 73”
Yehuda Amichai, “An Arab shepherd searching for his goat”. “The Little Park Planted”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover”, “Nature a Hericlitean Fire”, “Spring and Fall”
John Keats, “To a Nightingale” , “To Autumn”
July 18 Birds
William Butler Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole
Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers”, “Wild Nights”
Robert Frost, “Never Again Would Birds Song Be the Same” , “The Oven Bird”
July 25 Earth and Sky
Francis of Assisi, “Canticle of the Sun”
Christina Rosetti, “Amor Mundi”
Basho, “In Kyoto”, “Wake Butterfly!”
Aug 1 Trees, Grass, Flowers
Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass”, “I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak”
Louise Gluck, “Trilium”
Margaret O’Brien, “Mothering God”
Kabir, “How Humble is God?
Aug 8 Love and Suffering
Billy Collins, “Aimless Love”, “Today”
Tagore, “The Boat”,”Waiting”, “Gitanjali” ,“On the Nature of Love”
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy”, “The Corn-Stalk Fiddle”
Julian of Norwich, “Oneing”
Aug 15 Divine Intimacy
Rabia, “The Sky Gave Me Its Heart”, “A Lover Who Wants His Lovers Near”
Rumi “Say I Am You”, “The Way Wings Should”, “How Does God Keep from Fainting”
Hafiz “How Did the Rose?” , “Startled By God”. “I Have Come Into the World to See This”
Thomas Aquinas, “The Mandate” , “The Pulse of God”
Aug 22 Final Summer Gathering, Taking Stock, Future Planning
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