{"id":300,"date":"2015-05-08T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-tufts-chaplaincy.pantheonsite.io\/humanist\/?p=300"},"modified":"2015-05-08T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:01:54","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.tufts.edu\/humanist\/news\/2015\/05\/08\/new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Week Reflection: New Beginnings through Tracy Chapman"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Humanist Chaplaincy at Tufts, we want to foster a comfortable environment for people to engage in honest discussions around the challenges in their lives, and explore how people outside traditional religion approach questions that many faith traditions engage regularly. In celebrating the commencement of the class of 2015 this year, we will be hosting a special small group reflection for seniors and their families the night before the Baccalaureate Service.<\/p>\n

At Small Group Reflections, the Humanist in Residence facilitates an open, respectful, and confidential conversation around one theme that concerns and informs many of our choices and experiences in our life journey. The conversation is rooted in a text (or other piece of culture) written from a Humanist perspective that engages the theme, and from there will be open to the perspectives and experiences of everyone present in the group. Those present are encouraged to bring pieces of culture that inspire their own values on the theme, including and especially those from other faith traditions.<\/p>\n

The Senior Week Reflection \u00a0will engage the theme of\u00a0new beginnings<\/em>, led through a piece from Tufts alum Tracy Chapman.\u00a0It will be on\u00a0Friday, May 15th<\/strong>, at 9pm in the Interfaith Center<\/strong>\u00a0meeting room.\u00a0The Senior Week Reflection is open to all members of the Tufts community, but especially our graduating seniors and their families, irrespective of anyone’s belief background. We’ll have a reception with many refreshments and music following.<\/p>\n

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Born in Cleveland, Tracy Chapman is a Grammy-award winning musician, inspiring activist, and distinguished Tufts alum. Her work in folk songwriting came to define the genre from the ’80s onward, and she is a shining force in changemaking from her undying commitment to resisting poverty, racial injustice, and sexual oppression. She rarely took the Humanist label for herself–but her work thoroughly engages a manner of living meaningfully through social action and towards justice in the world around us, namely pieces like “Heaven’s Here on Earth” and “All That You Have Is Your Soul.” Her work and her perspective, namely on how and why we make new beginnings in our lives and our world, is certainly worth the engagement of Humanists today.<\/p>\n

The eponymous track off of Chapman’s platinum-selling fourth record, New Beginnings<\/em>, articulates how we as society might reconstruct ourselves when we find ourselves immersed in suffering, but also how we as unique individuals might revisit and reimagine ourselves when change comes in our life journeys. This commencement, we’ll reflect on what new beginnings are coming to us this May, and what Tracy can, or can’t, offer us by way of inspiration towards making that change.<\/p>\n

New Beginnings.
\n<\/em>By Tracy Chapman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The whole world’s broke and it ain’t worth fixing<\/em>
\nIt’s time to start all over, make a new beginning<\/em>
\nThere’s too much pain, too much suffering<\/em>
\nLet’s resolve to start all over make a new beginning<\/em><\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong I love life and living<\/em>
\nBut when you wake up and look around at everything that’s going down<\/em>
\nAll wrong<\/em>
\nYou see we need to change it now, this world with too few happy endings<\/em>
\nWe can resolve to start all over make a new beginning<\/em><\/p>\n

The world is broken into fragments and pieces<\/em>
\nThat once were joined together in a unified whole<\/em>
\nBut now too many stand alone There’s too much separation<\/em>
\nWe can resolve to come together in the new beginning<\/em><\/p>\n

We can break the cycle – We can break the chain<\/em>
\nWe can start all over – In the new beginning<\/em>
\nWe can learn, we can teach<\/em>
\nWe can share the myths the dream the prayer<\/em>
\nThe notion that we can do better<\/em>
\nChange our lives and paths<\/em>
\nCreate a new world<\/em><\/p>\n

The whole world’s broke and it ain’t worth fixing<\/em>
\nIt’s time to start all over, make a new beginning<\/em>
\nThere’s too much fighting, too little understanding<\/em>
\nIt’s time to stop and start all over<\/em>
\nMake a new beginning<\/em><\/p>\n

We need to make new symbols<\/em>
\nMake new signs<\/em>
\nMake a new language<\/em>
\nWith these we’ll define the world<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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