Bob Dylan is one of our most famous sons here in Minnesota. In this week\u2019s Sunday St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/i>, I read that Bob Dylan\u2019s parents were Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to Minnesota after WWI. In his 2004<\/a> memoir Dylan wrote of his grandmother, saying, \u201cLife for her hadn\u2019t been easy. She\u2019d come to America from Odessa, a seaport town in southern Russia. It was a town not unlike Duluth, the same kind of temperament, climate and landscape and right on the edge of a big body of water.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The article continues, saying that Anna and Zigman Zimmerman fled antisemitic persecution in what was then the Russian Empire and what is today Ukraine. They were refugees, just like people today.\u201d<\/p>\n The yearning for home, no matter where it is, or how far we get away from it, is in all of us in some way. It\u2019s a human and divine yearning as I believe all of our true yearnings are. Imagination, memory, yearning . . . they\u2019re all connected and connecting. They\u2019re like tendrils within time, wisps in the winds of memory, and have their place in our hearts.<\/p>\n Early in A Course of Love Jesus suggests that many of us \u201cwanted but the travelers\u2019 guide and not the actual journey,\u201d and says we may \u201cstill resist realizing that you got more than you bargained for.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A door has been reached, a threshold crossed.<\/p>\n What your mind still would deny your heart cannot.<\/p>\n A tiny glimmering of memory has returned to you and will not leave you to the chaos you seem to prefer. It will keep calling you to acknowledge it and let it grow. It will tug at your heart in the most gentle of ways. Its whisper will be heard within your thoughts. Its melody will play within your mind. \u201cCome back, come back,\u201d it will say to you. \u201cCome home, come home,\u201d it will sing. You will know there is a place within yourself where you are missed and longed for and safe and loved. A little peace has been made room for in the house of your insanity.\u201d C:10.31 and 32<\/p>\n The blessed awaiting of \u201cwhat is to be,\u201d no matter what we think that is, is part of coming home. A memory of home lives within us. In a marvelous few sentences early in the Course he speaks of heaven saying, \u201cHow could it not encompass everything and still be what it is: home to God\u2019s beloved son and dwelling place of God Himself? It is because God is not separate from anything that you cannot be.\u201d C:6.19<\/p>\n I still abide in the blessed awaiting of the printed \u201cproof\u201d of Memoria, the final step to having it become a physical book. I\u2019ll let you know as soon as that happens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quotes from St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/i>, \u201cFrom Odessa to Minnesota\u201d By Jay Gabler, Forum News Service<\/p>\n The Times They Are \u2018A-Changin\u2019 and Historical Memory As you enter the time of Memoria, what you feel will be akin to memory\u2019s prayer, the prayer of longing. Her way is that of remembrance, tinged with grief\u2019s yearning for the end of what need not be. (From Memoria: The Way of the Marys<\/a>) Bob Dylan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" As you enter the time of Memoria, what you feel will be akin to memory\u2019s prayer, the prayer of longing. Her way is that of remembrance, tinged with grief\u2019s yearning for the end of what need not be. <\/i>(From Memoria: The Way of the Marys<\/i>)<\/p> Bob Dylan is one of our most famous sons here in Minnesota. In this week\u2019s Sunday St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/i>, I read that Bob Dylan\u2019s parents were Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to Minnesota after WWI. In his 2004 memoir Dylan wrote of his grandmother, saying, \u201cLife for her hadn\u2019t been easy. She\u2019d come to America from Odessa, a seaport town in southern Russia. It was a town not unlike Duluth, the same kind of temperament, climate and landscape and right on the edge of a big body of water.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p> The article continues, saying that Anna and Zigman Zimmerman fled antisemitic persecution in what was then the Russian Empire and what is today Ukraine. They were refugees, just like people today.\u201d<\/p> The yearning for home, no matter where it is, or how far we get away from it, is in all of us in some way. It\u2019s a human and divine yearning as I believe all of our true yearnings are. Imagination, memory, yearning . . . they\u2019re all connected and connecting. They\u2019re like tendrils within time, wisps in the winds of memory, and have their place in our hearts.<\/p> Early in A Course of Love Jesus suggests that many of us \u201cwanted but the travelers\u2019 guide and not the actual journey,\u201d and says we may \u201cstill resist realizing that you got more than you bargained for.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p> A door has been reached, a threshold crossed.<\/p> What your mind still would deny your heart cannot.<\/p> A tiny glimmering of memory has returned to you and will not leave you to the chaos you seem to prefer. It will keep calling you to acknowledge it and let it grow. It will tug at your heart in the most gentle of ways. Its whisper will be heard within your thoughts. Its melody will play within your mind. \u201cCome back, come back,\u201d it will say to you. \u201cCome home, come home,\u201d it will sing. You will know there is a place within yourself where you are missed and longed for and safe and loved. A little peace has been made room for in the house of your insanity.\u201d C:10.31 and 32<\/p> The blessed awaiting of \u201cwhat is to be,\u201d no matter what we think that is, is part of coming home. A memory of home lives within us. In a marvelous few sentences early in the Course he speaks of heaven saying, \u201cHow could it not encompass everything and still be what it is: home to God\u2019s beloved son and dwelling place of God Himself? It is because God is not separate from anything that you cannot be.\u201d C:6.19<\/p> I still abide in the blessed awaiting of the printed \u201cproof\u201d of Memoria, the final step to having it become a physical book. I\u2019ll let you know as soon as that happens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Quotes from St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/i>, \u201cFrom Odessa to Minnesota\u201d By Jay Gabler, Forum News Service<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,14,8],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-mari-perron","tag-memoria","tag-the-way-of-the-marys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mariperron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Memoria-gold-front-2-98x150.jpg\")
<\/a><\/h3>\nThe paperback version of Memoria the Way of the Marys.<\/i><\/h3>\n
is (still) Coming Soon. Click here<\/a> to order the Kindle version.<\/h3>\n
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and Historical Memory<\/h3>
<\/a><\/h3>The paperback version of Memoria the Way of the Marys.<\/i><\/h3>
is (still) Coming Soon. Click here<\/a> to order the Kindle version.<\/h3>