[Oe List ...] [Earthrise] Annual Reflection

[Robertson Work]

Gratitude, dear Judi, so powerful, so beautiful.

Robertson Work
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Subject: [Earthrise] Annual Reflection

Now celebrating  having circled the sun 81 times as an earthling. This year wasbeen full with extreme encounters with life's blessings  and death's door from publishing Bodhi Leaves (well received), to a sibling's reunion and death ( of one of us (bringing us closer), to election of the collapse of democracy (opp for practicing resilience), to occasion of losing half the blood in my body (yeah, near death experience!), to Rocky Mountain High retreat where 80 sang happy birthday and two of my poems were read so beautifully I couldn't believe I wrote them. (best present ever). This poem is all I have to offer.
1 August 2025 In the Silence
The path lined with gray rocks of many shapes
Defining the way between ponderosa pines,
Huge boulders and gardens of fragrant heather.
Clouds in the sky overhead appear close enough
To reach up and touch
Their billowing build up of  tears waiting to shed.
The Blazing Mountain claims its nobie challenges
As it hides the sun's arrival on the eastern horizon
Casting elusive  shadows on the path,
As the sun makes its way to the mountain's peak,
Continuing its daily journey westward.
Shad0ws fade as the mountain blazes angrily
While sun spotlights the boundless resources of the Baca Grande
And the plateau sings out the power of [possibility
And wild creativity across the beauty of its landscape.
I, standing in the tension Between  the noble challenge of the blazing mountain
And the vast possibility and wild creativity of baca grande,
Breathe deeply into path of small stones
Arriving  home where I am,
Welcoming overwhelming joyful gratitude
For this opportunity to be so alive and able to love ,
Celebrating this vow to be One with the three jewels -
The Buddha, The Dharma and The Sangha
In these times of great traumatic change, (for which we were born)
Vowing to sustain courage to heal and be the healer of suffering.
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