And as long as we’re considering engaging with the rhythms of September, I’m going to mess with things just a little. Typically a “Full Circle Sunday”, which this one is on the calendar, would include a Talky Bit. However, I recently ran across a short film that felt to me like such an obvious extension of our visit to the Kapabamayak Healing Forest two weeks ago that I didn’t want to delay sharing it. So, we’ll be watching and discussing a short film that is part of a series called “Something Beautiful For The World”. This particular film is entitled “Rewilding A Forest | Artist and Poet Maria “Vildhjärta” Westerberg”. I’ll include a link at the end of this email so anyone that can’t make it can check it out for themselves.

I don’t want to give anything away, but I will say that this film raised all kinds of interesting questions for me, including the one in the subject line  – what does it mean to “save” something and its possible corollary, what does it mean to be a “saviour”? Which, despite the way many of us may have heard that word used, simply means “a person who saves someone or something”. It often includes that person being regarded with the veneration accorded to religious figures, but it doesn’t need to. Sometimes that part of it gets completely upended, as you will see.

We’ll meet at 10:45 at VA Cafe, and livestream part of our gathering here.

I’ll see you on Sunday.
Peace,

Tim Plett