Countdown to Sun Day
Each week we’ll send a task to help you get ready for Sun Day, a day of action on September 21 celebrating solar and wind power, and the movement to leave fossil fuels behind.
We are 12 weeks out, and this week’s task is:
Share a poem or short reading that celebrates the power and beauty of the sun.
Respond using the “comments” balloon below, and we’ll add them to our page of Religious & Spiritual Resources for Sun Day.
John Denver: Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry. Sunshine on the water looks so lovely, sunshine almost always makes me high.
Why I Wake Early
by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and crotchety–
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light–
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.