Our theme for 2024 is: Listening
In our second session:
We are exploring the life of Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann through the book, The Serpent of Good and Evil: A Reconciliation in the Life and Art of Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann by Patricia R Derrington.
Throughout her life Miriam-Rose has used deep listening to inform her work, be it with community or in creating her artwork.
Accessing the book:
The book is available through the Moreton Bay Library network on Brisbane however as an older publication it can be difficult to source.
As an alternative there is the publicly available journal Nelen Yubu with autobiographical reflections by Mirriam-Rose (pages 13-18) which you can access here.
Further reflection:
To listen to Miriam-Rose and find out more about her life and approach to deep listening watch the One on One program here
Here is the Dadirri You tube video which is also great.
Also you may wish to explore her foundation at: https://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/
And read the biography by Naidoc here.
1st session:
The first session focused on Anne Long’s book, Listening, described as a practical study of all the key aspects of listening - listening to myself, listening to others, listening to the world and listening to God.
Listening : Long, Anne: Amazon.com.au: Books
The online article: https://www.aloe.org.za/?p=598 gives some further details too.
The book is available for loan from the Roscoe Library, St. Francis Theological College, Milton which members of the Anglican Church Southern Qld are all members of.
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If I were asked how to find God, I would say, Learn to listen. Listen to the song of the universe in the call of birds, the rustle of trees, the crash and heave of the waves. Listen to the poetry of prayer, the music of the Psalms. Listen deeply to those you love and who love you. Listen to the words of God in the Torah and hear them speak to you. Listen to the debates of the Sages through the centuries as they tried to hear the texts’ intimations and inflections.
Don’t worry about how you or others look. The world of appearances is a false world of masks, disguises, and concealments. Listening is not easy. I confess I find it formidably hard. But listening alone bridges the abyss between soul and soul, self and other, I and the Divine.
https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/bereishit/the-art-of-listening/
“The first service one owes to others in a community involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is learning to listen to them.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together