[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Reprise: How Then Shall We Live? (in such a time as this . . .)

[Paula Philbrook]

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Paula

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situation for my caring family, disempowered communities, and our precious
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM Ellie Stock via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> Reprise:  How Then Shall We LIve? (in such a time as this . . .)
> Ellie
> elliestock at aol.com
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>            *HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?*
>
> *What do we call what calls from the deep,*
> *that pulses through stars and quickens heart’s beep,*
> *that surges through waves and cleanses with fire,*
> *emerges from dust and breathes soul’s desire?*
> *What do we name what mocks human pride,*
> *that bends the Tree of Life, sustaining being’s tide?*
>
> *How do we greet what calls to our deep,*
> *that lasers vulnerabilities and loves us from fear’s sleep,*
> *that mourns lost illusions and leaves us defenseless,*
> *transforms the present moment and awakens all senses?*
> *How do we embrace what eternalizes finitude,*
> *that opens wide portals, flooding tears of gratitude?*
>
> *How do we know what calls us to decide,*
> *that gives no guarantee and provides no place to hide,*
> *t**hat beckons all our care and trumps the doubt within,*
> *reckons despair and hope and connects all creature kin?*
> *How do we abide in what struggles to create,*
> *that explodes time and space, freeing partners with Earth’s fate?*
>
> *How then shall we live what chisels passion’s edge,*
> *that re-sculpts past’s confoundings and empowers future’s wedge,*
> *that compels us far beyond mind’s strength or comfort zone,*
> *propels trusting steps into great work’s bidding unknown?*
> *How shall we now journey in vast community*
> *with that which journeys through us profoundly and boundlessly?*
>
> *                                                              ~ ejhs*
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