Who is that Man/Woman in the Mirror?: Turning Afro-American History into an Epiphany and Lectio Divina/ Archaeology of Daily History and Daily Living by Climbing Ben Bulben, Yeats Spiritual and Artistic Mountain
The Obama Presidency: There is no room at the Inn--Ben Bulben, the View!
By Dr. Patrick A. ODougherty, a Daniel Story author from the Holocaust Museum and Dania Hall labor author, from the West Bank of the University of Minnesota,a white negro, story teller, word knitter, shapeshifter.
I. A Black History Ephipany! 28 Days
Epiphany Jan. 6., MLK Day 2014, January 20. The Presentation of The Lord, Feb. 2. President's Day, February 17. Commemoration of Martin Luther February 18. Patricia ODougherty's birthday Feb, 10, the Feast of St. Scholastica, our Lady of Lourdes is Feb. 11, Valentine's Day is.
Seven Word Stories in Black History in Month !
A Seven Story Mountain Epiphany in Seven Word Lines!
"American history is an extended meditation on Nat Turner's Rebellion." William Stryon
A 7 Story Word/ Epiphany in Afro-American History.
1 Nat Turner's Rebellion kiss drums sea islands
2Slavery, reconstruction , Jim Crow, welfare state, prison
3Cursed race sexuality AIDS condoms denial opium
4Kwanzaa ragtime Scott Joplin Dred Scott decision
5Cotton Club, Black Boarding home Tampa rehearsal
6Great Migration Black Chicago East Illi Harlem
7Spike Lee, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Cummings/hooks
8Tacit knowledge free unfree the cave Sambo
9Angola White Negro Spade-kicks Invisible Men
10Religiosity improvisation mistrust of white people Queens
11Tuskegee airmen Mohammed Ali Xavier Twain Malcolm
12Sally Hemings improvisation Eve/Steve Kinte Cloth Zulu
13Peter Claver cell Black Pearls, MLK, Africa
14 Voodoo Benjamin Bloods quadroon Saxaphone nonviolence, Haley
15 911 slave trading site Dubois Fisk Xavier
16 Drexel Tubman Douglas piety silence Parks Davis
17 Twist Chubby Checkers Heisman Patrick crow bootlegger
18 Glass Darkly Alcatraz Mo Town Bronzeville Saga
19 Juneteenth common law Black Codes rocket engine
20 Mid passage oral traditions Isaiah 13th 14th 15th Amendments
21 Emancipation Proclamation, 19th amendment, Freedman's Bureau,
22 Genet, after- image mumbo jumbo Congo god jam
23 N-word rivers chocolate pyramids historical amnesia Zombie
24 Underground Railroad Black body radiation black hole
25 Fusion crossover cat fish grits black-eyed peas
26 Sullivan's Island Black 47 Five Points Vaudeville
27 Plantation, pancakes, Aunt Jemmima, Woolworth's, Denny's, Carmichael
28 Andrew Young, Gerry Adams, Jackie Lee, Whitney
29 Mandingo, Mamaluke, Ashanti, Zulu, Shem Shaun Yoruba
House of Mirrors: Yes You Can, change the American Narrative forever.
History is Like A House of Mirrors! Learn to Question Authority! Turn the questions into stories and narratives. Change the narrative of American history forever.
Is that man in the mirror the white lesbian Michael Jackson?
Is the man in the mirror Farrakhan or Mohammad or Christ or is it nous?
Do you see Sally Hemings in the mirror? Ask Denzel Washington, George Washington's relation. Where is the Harlem that WAS in the mirror in the Theresa Hotel with Malcolm X, Castro, JFK, MM and Lou Bellamy looking backward? Is the archaeology of knowledge in the architecture of the Theresa Hotel and Harlem a genealogy of discontinuities in a fractured meta narrative of an extended master and slave parable. American history is about the unfree and the free. Why is Mel Gibson pounding the nails into Christ during the crucifixion in the movie, The Passion? Read the Epistle of St. Patrick.
Buddy Holly is at the Apollo again. Is he a so-called wigger? How would you shatter a stereotype like this?
Ask Paul Robeson? Ask Alice! Beg the question and ask yourself on your knees. Write your history from the bottom up and through the looking glass darkly with fractals. And Dania Hall was burned to the ground on the West Bank in Minneapolis on 4th Street right in front of my eyes after being evacuated almost naked from my residence in the Mary Tyler Moore Building. A Daniel's Story author asks why? Why was I railroaded on 4th Street? An Irish Catholic author asks this question during Black history month?
How?
How can I turn the words and Names of Black history into stories and into a Lectio Divina? The Presentation in the Temple is a naming with circumcision. Yes, you can.
Think like a Mountain. Think like Ben Bulben. Barack Obama is a Blessed Mountain.
My tongue is a Double-edged Wilkinson. Yes you can. The cut is delivered. Deliverance!
I am an Irish author. I am not a piñata.
Constitution, Confederacy, Conspiracy and Convict have the root, Con.
II KISS
Yes, you can add a Rhythmn Section
Read this piece a loud with Pachebell's Canon in D for Blackground music while moving slowly in Whirling Dervish Dance form. Drum beats and rhythms create community which has a similar root to communion and communism.
Yes, You can, Question Authority and Re-name!
Ask the "J" hook question. Why is there no "J"or "W" in the Hebrew or Aramaic languages? What does this suggest about re-naming relationships? Was Christ a Black Jew?
Route 66, Lincoln Highway, crosses the Trail of Saints and the Trail of Tears in American history. Makes these roads the signposts and bushes burning in your life.
Do Dah!
Yes You Can add a new Time Signature: 5/8 Time.
III.
Doing! Yes, You can.
A Back to Basics Field Guide : Arise 1 Isaiah 60:1-6 Yes, You Can.
"Arise, shine; for the light is come, and the glory of lord is risen upon thee..." The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Epah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show praises of The Lord." Arise and go to Innisfree.
Merit Badges
Prayer, scripture study, small groups, tithing, corporate outreach, evangelization, work at habit formation, then translate these tools into skill sets. Train don't just try. Set up a chameleon schedule of 28 days to prune and make changes in your habits. Create a new other in your relationships. Give birth!
Bridges
Heal, prioritize, balance, renew,change habits, build bridges in small groups like the Cuba Caravan.
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and truth. IFCO/Pastors for Peace to Cuba.
Renew!
Turn, turn Afro-American History into Creative Visualization and Lectio Divina!
Look to the small things in life like tulips and black roses.
Small things, hats , horns, bells, flowers, children and Sheba cats given timbre to daily life.
Shine like this little light of mine.
We Three Kings, suggests new beginnings with small things in a manager.
Come out and make an Epiphany. Visualize this manager image and write about it. Turn it and the word biographies of Afro-American history into a Black Epiphany or manifestation. Bring Christ into the ordinary images and of your life. Ecce Homo in your temple. Build a nest egg fund for a rainy day. Arrange the small things and images and words into seven word lines like the lines in Black history above.
Convert and make God's love made real in the moment. Visualize the divine in the prosaic and make the words of life a Lectio Divina, a divine biography.
Roots!
Paring Your Mind, Body and Soul in Day to Day Habit Building: The Craft of Black History is a Habit of Archaeology and Digging! History is roots. It is genealogy. It is family. Join a root/boot camp. Shine your shoes. Enter the Penumbra theater, in St. Paul, and join the cast at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. Search for your roots in the faces of the actors.
IV. Apply:
Dr. Patrick A. ODougherty, OFA, is a Obama fellow and a Cuba Caravanista. These are Patrick's Afro-American focus groups and Robinson Crusoe cultural
V. Recipes for Training, Practicums, and Wisdom-- Building Character and Order
Recipes Build Character: 16 Bones, Table of Content
1 Work more, and do internal paring. Shape-shift and dig more yams.
2 Use a visual schedule like the 28 oil paintings in the drama of St. Francis ofAssisi.
3 Clean your teeth and smile, par your nails.
4 Shave your face. Who is the man in the mirror.
5 Like the Wife of Bath, bath daily.
6 Eat the six necessary food groups in small portions. Cook!
7. Write a move song using a template and make this song move forward positively.
Southern Cross over Columbus, GA
By Dr. Patrick ODougherty
Will you sing a Southern Cross
In the name of peace?
Will you name your girl Blue Grass music
To protest against the wars?
Will you speak up for the living and the dead
In the classroom of the South--the SOA?
Will you come to Fort Benning?
Sunday is the day.
Will you work for solidarity
And carry a sign of peace
And read a litany of names of remembrance
To put a halt to war?
And sing to free democracy from the school of the the South!
11/29/2013
PAO
8. Wash your clothes at the hurdles. Search your wardrobe for Narnia and the White Witch
9. Shine your shoes and write a shine song. Hunker down in a shoe shine song.
10.Change your socks. Wash your feet. Cut your toenails.
11. Listen to the radio and TVselectively with filter theory.
12. Behavior watch the people in your midst. Who are the remnants? Who are the Three Kings? Try cat dancing with Sheba.
13. Learn to keep your mansion or manager clean. There is no room at the Inn.
14. If you get lonesome, reach out through the darkness to stars you can't see.
15. Keep a glad song in your heart like a shine song like this little light of mine.
16. Hope is a name in every language. Plot your hopes. Chart your daily cycles in a journal.
17. Dream and do dream work shops.
18. Save money, honey. You can bank on it. Honey is sweet on the rocks.
19. Have limited good company. Eat with Companeros.
20. Send money to relatives or focus groups like the Sierra Club.
21. Take in a theater play like Death at Thebes by Shamus Heaney. Become a Black Orpheus or Black Athena. Tragedy was born out of Plato's Cave.
22. Dance at the riverside, for example, a slow dance like a Whirling Dervish at Minnehaha Creek.
23. Fight the good fight. Pick fights you can win. Break your hammer. Try Rope a Dope Love. Become the things you celebrate.
24. Keep a disciple ship journal. Evangelize.
25. Move on and prune your relationships.
26. Count your blessings. Morning has moved from darkness to dawn. I woke up today.
27. Keep the Fourth Commandment. Love your parents
28 Love the rocks in your life. Make a list of the people who have given you light.
29 Love everybody including yourself. Don't stint yourself.
30. Make decisions. Don't procrastinate! Commitment is daily.
31. Arise and go to Innisfree every day. Baptism happens every day.
32. Good habit formation is incremental and requires training. Join a gym or writer's group. Work out a 28 day schedule. Black history month, February, has 28 days.
33. Check results on your habits like scripture reading. What is the objective correlative or your spiritual exercises. Love not in words and tongue but in deeds and truth.
34 Set a compass direction in life and map your signposts. Forward forward!
35. Join
a focus group like Pastors for Peace to Cuba or a Scripture study group.
36. Select a Charism like charity fund raising or visiting nursing homes.
37 Journal your dreams. Excavate your interior dream attic. Develop skill sets that are transposable to render practical your excavations.
38. Re-image memories of 911 and translate them into positive deeds.
39. Viva la difference is the spice of life. Don't get locked into a roadblock.
38. Throw out bad habits like smoking, drinking and gossiping.
39. Realizing love through habit formation and pruning and serving the poor. Dignity, respect and love are not givens. They are earned
40 The Recipes of your life like childhood stories give flesh and blood to the prosaic moments of your life. Turn the word biographies of your life into caravan stories. There is no room at the inn. Transport your seven word biographies to Egypt or Babylon. For example, join the Cuba Caravan. Break the blockades in your heart and relationships.
Take Care of Yourself. Learn from Your Recipe toolkit. Learn from your cycles, daily cycles and life cycles. Make them portable.
Doodle Afro-American history into Recipes for Deep and Daily Living. JFK was a doodler.
Writing a Book Backwards as From a Mirror!
V. Arise and go to Innisfree. Climb Ben Bulben, a Seven Story Mountain, with Yeats, the Abbey Theater Founder and Patricio. Tell Your Stories on the Mountain. When prophecy fails, look to your story, life cycles and ascend Mt. Evans and Ben Bulben. Arise.
VI.Blessing the Seed! Stories to Book Releases
A Triple Book Release in History from Shiloh Temple International Ministries on Broadway in Minneapolis.
ISBNS
Minnesota Anschluss/Shiloh. #3431 Dead, Murdered from 2001-2010.
ISBN 978-0-974-1978-5-2
By Dr. Patrick A. ODougherty
From R. R. Bowker Identifier Services
62SU-CR-13-1833 Second District Court, St. Paul, Mn
This Case in The Second District Court in Ramsey County Court File Number: 62SU-CR-13-1833 is a Dignity Case. No More Names!
This is a Abraham/Christ is present in this courtroom case out of the Cathedral of St.
Paul and Shiloh Temple Ministeries International. This is a Catholic witness Case against the fragmentation of your life. The fallacy of Capitalism is unlimited growth in the marketplace. I"ll Be there." Tad Joad. Utopia means No place.
Walden III: A Catholic America
By Dr. Patrick A. ODougherty
ISBN 978-0-962-6665-1-3
E-book release 8/21/2013
A Re-capitulation of the Thoreau Experiment in the modern context with out Thoreau's Alienation.
Authors Den
David Noble, historian
Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life.
#9780816680597
Press Ref. Emma Shapiro, Center for American Progress Action Fund, communications Organizer, 1333 H Street NW 10th Floor
Washington, DC. 20005
(Ph) 202-682-1611 eshapiro.americanprogressaction.org
www.irishcatholicpublishing.com
Epiphanies Against the Failure of Prophecy! SOA and 911.
When Prophecy fails, for example, the SOA, Columbus GA, and 911 Ground Zero, meditate the Epiphanies, with the fence of white paper crosses, and the fallen craven images. Then, learn from life's cycles! Arise and Dig.
VII Build a Bibliography: For Example, A Failure of Prophecy Bibliography
Ref. Eric Goldman, Rendezvous With Destiny, Princeton University.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Great Gatsby, to learn from life cycles. Daisy Buchanan deals Gatsby a child by another man, her husband.
William Faulkner, Light in August. Learn from life cycles, for example, illegitimacy.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. Utopia is the Greek word for "No Place". Birth, Death, Rebirth and the Interim period are the Bardos of Nature and love relationships.
David Noble and Peter Carroll, the Free and the Unfree.
Carolyn Merchant, Key Concepts in Critical Theory: Ecology.
Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree.
Fitzjof Capra, The Tao of Physics.
Hegel's, Master and the Slave Parable.
St. Patrick's Confession and Epistle.
David R. Roedigger, Colored White: Transcending America's Racial Past.
Edmundo O'Gorman, The Invention of America.
Patrick Brantlinger, Crusoe's Footprints.
John Quiggan, Zombie Economics.
Michael Foucault, The History of Sexuality.
Jervis Anderson, This Was Harlem.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh.
VII Create A Table of Contents From this Bibliography
IX Generate a Book from this table of Contents
Mango Writer's Conference, Plantation, Florida. 2014.
The Preface: A Prayer
A Prayer Coda against the Black Slave Codes--Doing History
Islam Means Peace
By Dr. Patrick A. ODougherty
I, a Muezzin, or Sexton, Incanting the Muslim prayers! A Call to Prayer to Allah, the Most Merciful.
Fajr, the first prayer of the day
God is great.
God is great.
God is great.
God, Dios, Dieu, Allah, Liberator
The sunrise is the end of the morning prayer.
Zuhr, the early afternoon prayer. Face West towards Mecca for this prayer.
Glory to God, the almighty, glory!
Glory to God, the almighty,glory!
Glory to God, the almighty, glory!
Asr, the late afternoon prayer
Glory be to my Lord, the most high. 3 times.
Glory be to my Lord, the most high.
Glory be to my Lord, the most high.
Maghreb, the prayer at sunset
Glory be to my Lord, the most high. 3 times
Glory be to my Lord, the most high.
Glory be to my Lord, the most high.
God, Dios, Dieu, Allah, Liberator.
Isha, the last prayer is recited out loud.
It is like Asr and Zuhr except the first part of the prayer is said out loud.
God is good. 3times
God is good.
God is good.
My eyes are shut. My body is prostrated in surrender. Islam Calls You! Peace Calls You.
My heartfelt prayers and devotions go to the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary.
December 14th is the one year anniversary of The Sandy Hook tragedy.
Remember Ita Ford, Mary-knoll nun and El Salvador Martyr today.
Ford relates to Fjord.
PAO 12/14/2013 6:07am. Winter Solstice Time.
Tampa, Fl . Ybor. Place. "Knock the Dust off Your Sandals."
Make a point of convergence relationship between these prayers and the
spiritual daily moments in your faith, for example, the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Religions. I am a Catholic. Relate this prayer, Epiphany, to the messages at Fatima, a Moslem woman's name. Relate Sandy to St. Alexandra of Egypt. Islam means Peace. Relate this prayer to the new Moslem Center at 911 ground zero which was a former slave trading site and Indian battle grounds. Make this area A Lectio Divina, an archaeology. Make this prayer a rehearsal for reconstruction/deconstruction from the islands within your life. Transform your tents into tabernacles and make your interior life an Abbey theater in black and white face. Who do you see in the white crosses of the SOA and the mirrors of 911? Companeros, we are the seed, Mango Seeds, of Abraham, Isaac, MLK, JFK, and John Paul II, a Mexican criminal. The name Dan is in Great Dane, Dania, and The Danes. Isaac relates to Sax-sons. We, the People in order.....Ben Bulben stands for Order and Place and Purpose. Set sail and re-set compass and sail to Byzantium!
Mango Writer's Conference, Plantation, Fl 2014
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