A Sense of Doubt blog post #3643 - Blogging is My Prayer and Sinéad O'Connor
FROM REMBERINGS pg. 278:
And so I recently finished listening to Sinéad O'Connor's memoir, Remberings, which is extra special as an audio book because she narrates it, and her thick Irish brogue makes the experience all the more authentic in addition to the fact that she died in 2022, so now it's a voice from the past.
Her transformation (or she would have probably said awakening) as a Muslim is potent and barely explored in the book because she did not expect to die a year after its publication. She said that Islam feels like home. Actually, she wouldn't say "awakening," she said that the Muslims call it reverting because it's coming home.
So she was painting the Scriptures. She even mentions that when she "shuffles off this mortal coil" she wants all the people to whom she has given a painting to gather all together and have an exhibition.
A cursory Internet search did not turn up any plans for such an exhibition that I could find. Had she given me a painting, I would host such a show.
At the sixty day mark since Dad died, I featured one of her reggae covers in a post about grief:
Monday, October 28, 2024
I have posted about Sinéad O'Connor enough times that I made a Sinéad O'Connor category for the blog:
Monday, August 21, 2023
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023
One of these days, I will make a post of best concerts I have ever seen, and surely Sinéad O'Connor's show that I saw will be in the top five. She was an amazing performer. Just mind-blowing. Though I love so many of her albums and so much of her music, her reggae album Throw Down Your Arms, which is the tour I saw her in concert, is my favorite.
She writes that painting is her way of praying and that "praying in another language is like singing."
That really struck me as I have always felt that writing is like prayer. I very much identified with flow theory, state of flow.
Meditation and prayer are closely aligned; some might say that they are the same thing.
For me, this blog is my daily practice, my daily mantra, my daily prayer and meditation.
Sometimes it is wholly my thing.
Sometimes it is mostly written by someone else.
Sometimes it is just a picture upon which I have fixed my focus, on which I am meditating.
For this reason, I maintain a daily schedule, and I try not to get too many days behind as that confounds the daily practice, daily prayer and meditation.
At times, these writings feel like songs, like I am singing.
I am often deep in the flow, feeling the lap and lick of tides and waves, eddies and currents.
My blog is the delta, directing the great flow of what cascades down to the causeway, emptying into the universe.
Maybe Sinéad would like what I have written. I wish I had met her.
I find Sinéad O'Connor enormously inspiring, and though I doubt I will "revert" to being Muslim, I find her spiritual journey fascinating and edifying.
This ends my prayer.
Amen.
Thanks for tuning in.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2502.07 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 3508 days ago & DAD = 163 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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