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

[Phyllis Hockley]

What a great writing. So our question. And being in community is 
becoming real important for me.
Thank you, thank you, Ellie.
Phyllis

On 3/16/2025 5:49 AM, Ellie Stock via OE wrote:
> 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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