Cycle of Circles
ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᎢᏤ ᎠᏕᏘᏱᏍᎬᎢ U-li-he-lis-di i-tse a-de-ti-yi-s-gv-i / happy new year! What's on your creative table in 2025? For 2024, our pastor Erika Marksbury got a grant to use Bonnie Smith Whitehouse 's lovely book, Seasons of Wonder, for inspiration and focus. The grant covered copies of the book for the congregation, plus supplies for our monthly Makers Meetings and funds for field trips; and we met in small groups for monthly discussion. I really enjoy Bonnie's approach of interweaving gathering as a circle (!!), sharing creativity, connecting with nature, each other and the Divine. I've ordered her Kickstart Creativity cards for more inspiration. In her introduction to Seasons ofWonder, Bonnie quotes Steven Charleston , ' It is all a circle, the ancestors said -- an endless circle within a circle. The drum is a circle. The dance ground is a circle. The earth is a circle. There is no us or them...