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Su Tung-P’o
1037–1101 With Mao and Fang, Visiting Bright Insight Monastery

It’s enough on this twisting mountain road to
simply stop.
Clear water cascades thin down rock, startling
admiration,

white cloud swells of itself across ridgelines east
and west,
and who knows if the lake’s bright moon is above
or below?

It’s the season black and yellow millet both begin
to ripen,
oranges red and green, halfway into such lovely
sweetness.
All this joy in our lives — what is it but heaven’s
great gift?
Why confuse the children with all our fine
explanations?

The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy (p. 147). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.

Picture by student India Jensen Kerr

Alumnus John Fanestil, MDiv '92, is in the news! John is a long-time leader of Friends of Friendship Park, an organization working to ensure American access to land shared between the United States and Mexico.

For generations there were no barriers between the United States and Mexico at this location. In 2006, the US government started creating barriers and in 2020, people in the United States were denied access to the park altogether. You can read the news article at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-administration-plans-border-wall-people-interact_n_62d3669de4b0e6fc1a97b5f6. Learn more about Friends of Friendship Park at https://www.friendshippark.org/

If you are Methodist or just curious about changes that have been going on in the Methodist church, umc.org has some answers!

umc.org is the website of the United Methodist Church and Ask the UMC is working to clear up any confusion Methodists are feeling at this time in: Is The United Methodist Church really...? (Part 1)

Read the article at https://www.umc.org/en/who-we-are/ask-the-umc-faqs