Guided Meditation, by Joshua Bee Alafia

Guided Meditation

The challenging materials on view in A Site of Struggle can elicit a range of personal responses. In a spirit of care, this 12-minute guided meditation was developed by Chicago-based mindfulness and meditation teacher Joshua Bee Alafia, co-executive director of the South Side Liberation Center.

To access the guided mediation, use the QR code below or call 847-410-1962.

For those listening to the guided meditation in the museum, please use headphones.

https://bit.ly/ASOSMeditation

blessing the boats

By Lucille Clifton (at St. Mary’s)

may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

Lucille Clifton, “blessing the boats” from How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 1991 by Lucille Clifton . Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of BOA Editions Ltd ., www .boaeditions .org .