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End of Summer Book Read with music and tea and scones . . .

Thu, Aug 31

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Story and Song Center for the Arts

Something about books and summer just go together . . .as do tea and scones. Marie Laure has just returned from her book reading at the Julian of Norwich Center in England. Come listen to accompanying music, while sharing tea and scones with the author. All welcome to this Free event!

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End of Summer Book Read with music and tea and scones . . .
End of Summer Book Read with music and tea and scones . . .

Time & Location

Aug 31, 2023, 3:30 PM

Story and Song Center for the Arts, 1430 Park Ave, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034, USA

About the event

Reading and music bring us deeper into our own private world. Both will be shared with you when author, Marie Laure returns to Story and Song fresh from a summer book reading in Norwich, UK, the setting of her book: Return from Exile. 

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Story and Song Center for the Arts

1430 Park Avenue

Fernandina Beach, FL 32084 USA

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© 2023 by Marie Laure

​Six Stages of Pilgrimage:

  • The Call:

  • The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.

  • The Separation:

  • Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.

  • The Journey:

  • The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain and sacrifice of the journey itself.  This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.

  • The Contemplation:

  • Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation like walking a labyrinth.

  • The Encounter:

  • After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling and blisters, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin veil where humans live in concert with the Creator.

  • The Completion and Return:

  • At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world. "Seeing the place for the first time . . ."

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