Favorite Photo of the Week

I took this at the Shalom Center this week!

Community metamorphosis

Hello to each of you!  I wanted to share with you a selfie video filmed by Marta Espinoza and Elisabet Martínez about the values they have received from the Shalom Center.  I hope you enjoy it!

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Community metamorphosis

José Martí

Todo es música y razón
   Todo es hermoso y constante
Y todo, como el diamante,
   Antes que luz es carbón.

All is music and reason
   All is constant and beauty
And all, like the diamond
   Before light is coal.

José Martí

Traveling by Wendell Berry

Traveling 

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice.
The life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural connection is to make intent
of accident. To get back by dark
Is the art of going.

—Wendell Berry

Little Piece of the Sky

Highlands of Paraguay,
   Butterfly garden, giant wings of blue and black.
Deep orange patterns painted on mushrooms.
   Pearled weavings of spider webs stranded
Across green grass and red mud paths.
   Wind whispering in palms,
Emerald parrots screeching above the distant
   Rumble of trucks.  I look down, down,
Down to the distant valley.  Smoke from
   Clearing forests for soybeans and cattle,
Patches of yellow fields fallow, foreign pines
   And eucalyptus plantations.  Here up, up, up,
above, I rest in
                 A little piece of the sky.

Elena Huegel
July 2015

Dignity

Dignity:

I recognize the "you" in "me" and the "me" in you.
Common humanity.
Frail yet strong.
Surviving, even thriving.
In the midst of the past
of the past
and the future
of the future.
Wonderful and full of wonder.
Created and creating.

EH
June 2015

No need for wings, to take flight

NO NEED FOR WINGS TO TAKE FLIGHT.

Graffiti on a wall in Resistencia, Argentina.