Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-All Threaded Together-from Train Dreams
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session: Wednesday, May 13
In the forest, every least thing is important.
It’s all threaded together, so you can’t tell where one thing ends and another begins, if you really look at it.
The little insects you can’t even see, they play a role as vital as the river.
The dead tree is just as important as the living one.
There must me something for us to learn from that.
The world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit.
[The hermit] just waiting to see what [they’ve] been left here for.
When Robert Grainier died in his sleep sometime in November 1968, his life ended as quietly as it had begun.
He’d never purchased a firearm or spoken into a telephone.
He had no idea who his parents might have been, and he left no heirs behind him.
But on that spring day [being flown in a biplane}, as he misplaced all sense of up and down, he felt, at last, connected to it all.
—From the film Train Dreams, 2025, Clint Bentley / Greg Kwedar/ Denis Johnson
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*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.