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

[Phyllis Hockley]

This is great! I'm sharing it with "Earth Stewards" our earth care group 
at church.
Phyllis

On 3/31/2021 9:18 AM, John Ballard via OE wrote:
>
> Thank you for this lovely piece expressing our love for our universe.  
> The pictures are important too.  Elli, you’re the greatest!
>
> Happy Easter.
>
> Louise and Jack
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> *From:* OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> *On Behalf Of *Ellie 
> Stock via OE
> *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2021 5:29 PM
> *To:* dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net; oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> *Cc:* Ellie Stock <elliestock at aol.com>
> *Subject:* [Oe List ...] Song video: Let the Earth Breathe
>
> Hi Folks,
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> 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).
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> 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). 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>
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> Grapes and peas, be well, and Holy Week/Easter/Earth Day blessings!
>
> Ellie :)
>
> elliestock at aol.com
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