We met for our usual June service theme of bees and honey and sweetness. Our liturgy in June is full of images of bees, flowers, fecundity, of Emily Dickinson and Antonio Machado. Given that the East Coast was strangled this week by smoke from Canadian wildfires, the escalating costs of the destruction of the natural world were also part of our prayer life.
For our torah discussion, we read texts from Roy Scranton and from an essay Elliott is writing about Fringes’ 16 years as a non-Zionist havurah, and then shared ideas for what our liturgy and our services need to contain to continue being a space to hold this community into the future.
We listened to The Bengsons “Hope Comes” video
Roy Scranton essay “Raising My Daughter in a Doomed World” from We’re Doomed. Now What?