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

[Judi White]

Grateful for our spiritual friendship thru the years and now🧡🧘💛

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 6:41 PM Robertson Work via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> Gratitude, dear Judi, so powerful, so beautiful.
>
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> *From:* Earthrise <earthrise-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of
> Judi White via Earthrise <earthrise at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 5, 2025 10:52 AM
> *To:* Earthrise <earthrise at wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical Community <
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> *Subject:* [Earthrise] Annual Reflection
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> 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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