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). 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. 2.15.21 Let the Earth Breathe.mp4 Grapes and peas, be well, and Holy Week/Easter/Earth Day blessings! Ellie :) elliestock@aol.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |