Connection

September 2023 - #31

Welcome. Haere Mai.

I hope you enjoy the latest selection of beauty, goodness, and truth abundant through community and collaboration around the globe.

AMDG. Love and prayer 
~ Jane

Inspirational Things

Beauty

 

 > Many Beautiful Things (70min): This documentary shines a light on Lilias Trotter (1853–1928), an English painter and protégé of John Ruskin who, instead of pursuing an art career, became a Christian missionary in Algiers for forty years as a single woman...

 

> Britain’s Oldest Cathedral Pairs with Graffiti Artist: Discover more about this year-long community collaboration.

 

> A modern illustrated Gospel of John: View and purchase a contemporary full-colour version by Fish Coin Press.

 

> Beauty in extraordinary ordinary moments: "Contemplative life flows in a circular pattern: awe provokes introspection, which invokes awe...". 

 

Goodness

 

> Firebird Community Arts (10min): Empowering and connecting people through the goodness in the healing practice of glassblowing, ceramics, and therapy by serving those who have been impacted by structural or individual trauma.

 

> Postal Service for the Dead: Inspired by Post Secret, this project full of goodness is for sending letters to people in your life who have passed away.

 

> Magisterium ai: A good new free AI platform to help you discover more about Catholicism.

 

> Pair-Up: A good place for creatives to offer their time for each other!

Truth 

 

> I'll See You Later: A documentary with unexpected truthful stories that document the profound beauty of open adoption.

 

> Ron Rolheiser reflection: In adoration, we look to God or at some attribute of God (beauty, goodness, truth, or oneness) so strongly that everything else drops away. We stand…

 

> Creating a Digital Cathedral: “Again a bold statement, but I would love for the general conversation to be steered away from supporting the arts and move towards recognizing the essential role of the arts, creativity, and imagination in our day-to-day life and as shaping agents of our souls.”

 

> Gratefulness: A truthful poem by James Crews—“Gratitude passes through you….”

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Food For Thought

 

“That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of “how beautiful this is” is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it."

~ Jean Shinoda Bolen

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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

~ Jane Goodall

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"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

~ Hafiz
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“Our vocation is to life.”

~ Thomas Merton

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