And speaking of Sojourners....There are few places that I would call sacred. The library at Sojourners former office is one of them.
As Sojourners gossip columnist Julie Polter writes about the room, it was "the site of staff lunches, tense meetings, intern farewell skits, wedding receptions, worship services, and, of course, ping-pong tournaments." I would add to that list the amazing gatherings with youth-at-risk that I was part of in the mid-1990s with D.C. Barrios Unidos.
Sojourners has moved up the road, but apparently the space is still being used for spiritual purposes. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, in D.C. from his ashram in Bangalore, India, for a U.S. tour, gathered his followers (including Bill Clinton, according to the article) in the former Sojourners library for a session of deep breathing and meditation.
I don't think anybody at Sojourners could have imagined the library hosting an Indian guru, though the room has had some really amazing people in it over the years. Still, as the former embassy of Nicaragua during the Somoza era (that's the rumour anyway), the space probably still has a few ghosts that need to be cleared out.
Breathing always helps.
So glad you finally put up this pic-it is so funny-can you dig it-"our" library! But remember when last I was a Sojourners old office-I had to use my asthma puffer b/c of the heaps of dust and mould(or is that molds?) and thus could not take a deep breath..but hope the place got well cleaned and reno-ed and the people are taking in pure breath and spirit!
ReplyDeletehey..do you see Jim Wallis, Joe Roos and Bob Sabath in this photo-i am laughing so much at the seeing of those 3 guys as Guru and Guru helpers!
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