If you cannot make it to Reunion or not to the Saturday lunch presentation about Klarman Hall (named for our classmate Seth and his wife who are major supporters of it), heres the link to learn more about the building and the poem written about its groundbreaking last year. Klarman Hall Groundbreaking Ceremony, 23 May 2013 By Joanie Mackowski The extension of [the Proto-Indo-European word for earth] to denote human beings has been variously explained as human [deriving from] being who lives on the earth… --J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture Rejoice! We lean into the shovel, for the earth gives. For humanity’s common ground yields more than human within us. For we earthlings sprouted from earth, from one humble adamahi, a sheath of loam the sun cast off winding the spring of time. Rejoice! We raise the roof on the threshold and in the center, rounding our west full-circle to the east. For we unite avocation and vocation as two eyes make one in sight; for this work is play for mortal stakes.ii For we lean into the shovel to lean on a shovel or lean on an elbow or back in a chair to consider more reciprocal easts and wests, leanings and learnings, earthlings, starlings, us and vast. For we’ve the confidence to welcome uncertainty’s principled and ductile evergreen horizon, and we build a stately mansion for our oversoul,iii and our undersoul and inter- and intrasoul: we plant souls kernel in this soil. Rejoice! We stand the ground of peace. To live in a glass house, we let go the stone; we ply our bones and brains to intangible structures. For we build a temple for contemplation, with a green roof: for good is as visible as greeniv, and we strike the earth To stand in the clear of Klarman Hall, a translucent clothing for sound habits of mind. Rejoice! In our room of windows we’ll entertain the sun. For the sun teaches us to stretch beyond our reach, to be as guests in the lives of others. For as all seedlings, we earthlings lean in to catch the sun’s drift, the news of our primal generator. For generosity (rain or shine) Gravitates us toward the light. Generosity shelters us with a vegetable roof so we’re mindful of the ground and keeping the sky in proportion. © 2013 Joanie Mackowski
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