[Fuusm-l] Sat. 11/28 Daily Meditation Offering

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SATURDAY  NOV. 28  	Last Meditation Offering in this series
Song:  Give Thanks		*Video can be found on FUUSM FaceBook

Reading - Grace from Earth Prayers, ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon (p. 207)

O bless this people, Lord, who seek their own face
Under the mask and can hardly recognize it…

O bless this people that breaks its bond…

And with them, all the peoples of Europe,
All the peoples of Asia,
All the peoples of Africa,
All the peoples of America,
Who sweat blood and sufferings.

And see, in the midst of these millions of waves
The sea swell of the heads of my people.
And grant to their warm hands that they may clasp
The earth in a girdle of (brotherly) kindred hands,
Beneath the rainbow of thy peace.
-Leopold Sedar Senghor 



RECIPES
Fish Patties
LeRoy McCarty catches the fish out of the Muskingum River, and we follow the guidelines from the ODNR on how often to eat the fish - once a month.
Use 1 pint of canned fish, drained except for 2 TBS of juice.
Smash up 15 round crackers to powder,  add 1 egg, mix thoroughly.  Shape patties by hand and fry in a well-oiled skillet (3 TBS oil)

Chicken Wild Rice Soup  (modified George Banziger recipe)
Cook chicken pieces, set aside to cool and then debone to add back in later.
Cook washed wild rice (grass seeds) in chicken broth until they puff.
saute onions, mushrooms, garlic, celery, & shredded carrots and add to stock.

*Northern Minnesota, near the Boundary Waters with Canada is prime ground for harvesting wild rice, (which is not the same as Asian rice), a native staple of the Anishinaabe people for thousands of years.
LESSONS
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906 – 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who, for two decades, served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80).
Négritude is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating "Black consciousness" across Africa and its diaspora.  Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, and argued for the importance of a Pan-African sense of being among people of African descent worldwide. The intellectuals employed Marxist political philosophy, in the Black radical tradition.  [Wikipedia].



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