[Oe List ...] Song video: Let the Earth Breathe

[Lynda C]

Isobel and Jim,  So sorry to learn of the flooding in NSW.  Glad to hear that you are safe, in the midst of much devastation.

With care as homes and businesses recover and rebuild,    Lynda.

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Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 6:45 PM
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Cc: Isobel and Jim Bishop <isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Song video: Let the Earth Breathe

Dear Ellie,

We used your song in our liturgy in the last Season of Creation! The month of September is set aside for Seasons of Creation in

the Australian liturgical  Ecumenical calendar

And I remember singing your song!

World Environment Sunday is in early June, so we may well use your song again then!

Oh, give thanks for the global village!

Our Church, Pitt St Uniting Church, has just inducted  a new Transgender woman Minister. It will be a wonderful journey with her.

As for the floods,  they have abated, but the job of clearing up the mud etc., and finding homes for those who lost everything in

the torrents, is still a huge task before us all.

Many people still have not had their insurance claims recognised from the devastating bushfires of 2019/20. Some still live in

caravans.

I went  to see the Movie Nomadland, and was deeply moved. My 11 years of  living in the US has shaped me to be  who I  am,

and I still connect strongly with your way of life. Our daughter Rebecca was born and raised for the first year of her life in a ghetto

in Cleveland. A very enriching experience for us three. My life was changed forever.

Blessings without number on you all, my dear colleagues and friends.

Isobel



Isobel and  Jim Bishop
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On 30 Mar 2021, at 8:29 am, Ellie Stock via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:

Hi Folks,

Holy Week/Easter/Earth Day-Month Greetings from St Louie!

I hope you all are doing well as we hope we are emerging slowly from the coronavirus pandemic and also hope for the effective, efficient and equitable distribution of the vaccine, not only in the US but globally.  We still have yet to put the same effort into addressing the environmental/climate change and racism/violence pandemics.

Along those themes, I wanted to share with you a link to a song video "Let the Earth Breathe" our daughter, Chenoa (who, now, working in Peru, has also worked in Bolivia, Sri Lanka, and India), and I worked on.  Some background.  After Carleton, and I "retired" in 2011, we decided we wanted to focus our work on addressing the environment from the Universe Story perspective.  In 2012 we decided to host a winter/spring environmental film series in Ferguson to start our effort, which included showing "Journey of the Universe".  The last program in May was not a film but the "Awakening the Dreamer" Symposium.  It was also part of the ICA 50th Anniversary Event.  For that event, I wrote the song "Let the Earth Breathe".  Out of that event came a core of people who were interested in pursuing environmental issues and eventually became the Ferguson Eco Team which is still active (and will be re-showing that film April 15).

Later that year Chenoa and I made an audio recording of our singing the song together (not professional--mainly just to have a record of it) which I sent out over the ICA list serve and was later included as part of the Ecumenical (Church of Australia) Season of Creation resource curriculum (www.seasonofcreation.org<http://www.seasonofcreation.org>).  Since then, it has been used in several services and other events.  Over the years, as we have experienced the intersectionality of issues related to the environment, racism, pandemic, economic/social disparities, the song has taken on additional levels of meaning.  In 2020 Chenoa and I started working on photos that could accompany it.  We finished that in January, and Carleton and I used it for a zoom environmental session (1st of a four part environmental series) we did February 21 with Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, CO, coordinated and facilitated by Sherwood and Eunice Shankland. (Jim and OliveAnn Slotta were also present, commenting on their work related to the Accelerate Environmental Forums they are facilitating in the Denver area).

So, below is the link to the song video and attached are the music notation and lyrics.

[Image removed by sender.] 2.15.21 Let the Earth Breathe.mp4<https://drive.google.com/file/d/15XF981ii5aQj-kGMY-5WXR92P541obf2/view?usp=drive_web>

Grapes and peas, be well, and Holy Week/Easter/Earth Day blessings!

Ellie :)
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