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| Welcome! You have found the site of the CreationKeepers team (Christ Church's Eco Church Committee), which shares ideas and experiences about how we can all lighten our environmental footprint. We do this because we see our planet and its resources at a breaking point and believe in the power of personal examples. Most weeks, we will reflect on some aspect of living, working, shopping, consuming, reading, learning, etc. These are all local experiences and can easily be adopted by others in our community. Our authors (Rosie and Monika) look forward to any comments or ideas that you may also have and want to share. Send us your ideas at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
Blog #79: Poem of a Golden Moon |
| July 21st, 2022 Rosalind Shakespear |
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Stealing huge and gold/
Supermoon magnificence/ Beauty unsurpassed. *
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| July’s full moon - beautifully visible last week - was a Supermoon, orbiting closer to Earth than any other full Moon this year which made it the brightest supermoon of 2022. Incidentally, the UN has declared July 20th to be International Moon Day to observe the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission which landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon |
| During the summer months - instead of putting together our regular blog - we invite our readers to contribute a Haiku reflecting on creation or efforts in creation-keeping. Haikus are a short form of poetry, originally from Japan. Traditionally, they consist of three phrases - the first one with five syllabi, the second one with seven syllabi, and the third with five syllabi again. One haiku is enough, but you can also combine it with a picture, a story, or another haiku. Feeling inspired? Please send your haiku to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
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Blog #78: A Poem of Space and Respect |
| July 14th, 2022 Philip Reading |
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Foxes, magpies, cats/
wood pigeons invade my space/ Do I respect theirs? * |
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| During the summer months - instead of putting together our regular blog - we invite our readers to contribute a Haiku reflecting on creation or efforts in creation-keeping. Haikus are a short form of poetry, originally from Japan. Traditionally, they consist of three phrases - the first one with five syllabi, the second one with seven syllabi, and the third with five syllabi again. One haiku is enough, but you can also combine it with a picture, a story, or another haiku. Feeling inspired? Please send your haiku to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Blog #77: A Poem of Heat and Rain |
| July 7th, 2022 Maria Cristina Krier |
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Our flight is delayed/
We wait patiently to go/
And enjoy ourselves.
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While it’s raining here/
In Scotland and in London/
Vienna dwells in heat.
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That’s the proof that now/
The real summer has arrived/
And holidays start.
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Dear God, give us peace/
And freedom and heartfelt Love/
For all those in pain.
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| May God’s Love surround/
And strengthen all of us now/
And for ever more.
Amen.
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| During the summer months - instead of putting together our regular blog - we invite our readers to contribute a Haiku reflecting on creation or efforts in creation-keeping. Haikus are a short form of poetry, originally from Japan. Traditionally, they consist of three phrases - the first one with five syllabi, the second one with seven syllabi, and the third with five syllabi again. One haiku is enough, but you can also combine it with a picture, a story, or another haiku. Feeling inspired? Please send your haiku it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Blog #76: LivingLight in Summertime |
| June 30th, 2022 Brandy Bauer & Monika Weber-Fahr |
| Summertime is here! Last week’s June 21st marked the summer solstice or midsummer. Tomorrow, children in Vienna go on their two-month long summer breaks. Also, many doctor’s offices and other services will close for some time in the coming month or so, and even Christ Church moves onto a summer schedule. In July and August clocks in Vienna will be ticking slower than for the rest of the year. |
| Summertime is also an opportunity - indeed an invitation - to notice life around ourselves with more attention. Many of us take time out of our busy schedules, and if we are lucky we are able to slow down and create more harmony between the speed at which we live and the pace of nature and its beings. A perfect time, it seems, for reflecting on what God’s creation means to us.. |
| This is the spirit of Living Light in Summertime: Instead of the regular blog, we want to invite our readers to share short observations on what they see and feel about creation or creation keeping as they go through the summer months. To make it easy, we thought of haikus as the main format. Haikus are a short form of poetry, originally from Japan. Traditionally, they consist of three phrases - in a 5 - 7 - 5 pattern, containing a seasonal reference. A good fit for the Living Light Blog. So, the invitation to you all is to compose a creation-minded thought or observation in three lines, the first one with five syllabi, the second one with seven syllabi, the third with five syllabi again. |
| Will you join the team? You can write just one three-liner, or put together several, telling a longer story. Or you can send us a Haiku together with a text or picture. To inspire us all, Brandy is giving us a head-start: |
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* Bounding flowers bounce / Attached you will find / * |
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| Inspired? Do send your haikus to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Or any other idea or thought, of course. |
| Have a great summer! We look forward to hearing from you! |