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Dear Friends, Neighbors and Members of St. Cyprian's,
Melinda Stone, Mboka, and Lee Dora
 at last spring's BBQ
Tonight, at the monthly Free Dinner hosted by USF students (utilizing gleaned produce from urban gardens and farmers markets) we thanked Melinda Stone for initiating these unique gatherings at Turk & Lyon.  

 

Bringing together a diverse array of students, neighbors, congregation members, local families, and seniors, this monthly meal has not only fed us all very well, it has inspired us to recognize the infinite possibilities for sharing food, community and life with one another. While the dinners will continue, Melinda is about to go on maternity leave and we will miss her much. I didn't get the chance to read this poem tonight, but lines from it were floating around in the air.  

 

Manifesto:
The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

by Wendell Berry

 

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.

 

And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.  

 

When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.  

Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.  

 

Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.  

 

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.  

 

Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.  

 

Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.  

 

Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?  

 

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.  

 

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.  

 

Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.  

 

"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" from The Country of Marriage, copyright � 1973 by Wendell Berry, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.  

 

Thank you Melinda Stone.

 

See you soon at Turk & Lyon!  

 

Peace,  

Will

 

St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

415-987-3029 

[email protected]          

 
 

Giving thanks for Cyprian's
Allison Schaub!
 
  
This Sunday at 11:30 a.m. St. Cyprian's members, Cyprian's arc Advisory Council and neighbors will celebrate and give thanks for the work of Allison Schaub. Allison began serving at St. Cyprian's while still a student at USF, and was hired as Events Coordinator last fall. We are so grateful for her hard work, skills, and passion for building community. Join us in wishing her well on her next adventure!   

     

 
  

   

May at Turk & Lyon 

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