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

[Isobel and Jim]

Thank you Ellie.
 My heart feels stronger as I read to the last. Thank you. 
xoxo 
Isobel 

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Isobel Bishop
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> On 16 Mar 2025, at 11:51 pm, Ellie Stock via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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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,
> that 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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