<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Judi,<div>Thank you for your reflections. We salute you.😊💕🐨🎈 </div><div>Isobel Bishop <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 24 Dec 2019, at 2:24 am, Judi White via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#336666"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"><img width="72" height="88" alt="img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg" src="cid:"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">2019: A Soolstice Year<img width="72" height="88" alt="img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg" src="cid:"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">The year 2019
is coming to its natural end.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">This is the
Winter Solstice. According to Celtic Mythology, the Sun will begin its return
from deep within the good earth as it does every year at this time, and as it
does every day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">This year 2019
has been a year of ongoing Solstice miracles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">A week at my
home with my daughter’s family, arriving at 75 and moving onto 76, watching a
Friday the 13th full moon rise together with family, an Order of Interbeing
retreats in Tanpa and OKC, and Chairing
a hugely successful Holiday Tour of Homes. I also saw a fifteen year venture in
creating a labyrinth become a reality and formed a sangha to meditate together
with others right here where I live.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">The pain of
being alone slowly melted away into oblivion as the year progressed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">As I look back
on it all, I am feeling like this year has been a success ad an endless
Solstice cycle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">Believe me when
I say I am not oblivious to this suffering planet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">Every day’s
meditation has included asking for a way to actually make a difference, to
contribute to the collapse of that which is so unjust and destructive to
humankind and to pioneer with others a new social vehicle founded on the
Oneness of all creation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">For my whole
adult life I lived that kind of life of service. It has been at the cost of
deep human connections.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">This year,
attention to the people I love, the place Where I live, and the life I want to
be had its day in the Light of the Solstice Sun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">In 2020, I will
have learned some valuable lessons about how to balance these otherwise
conflicting dynamics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">May I, in 2020,
trust the decisions I make. May these decisions connect human hearts in loving
focus on care for this planet’s well being.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">I am free to be
guided by an open Heart and clear Mind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"><img width="72" height="88" alt="img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg" src="cid:"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)">I dance in the
Sacred Circle of the Solstice cycle.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> <img width="72" height="88" alt="img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg" src="cid:"></span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,71,61)"> </span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(153,51,153)">Judi White</span></b></div><div><font color="#993399" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>"Take pleasure in the excellence of others, Shanti Deva<br></b></font><i><a style="color:rgb(102,0,204)" href="http://circlefireflydance.blogspot.com" target="_blank">h</a>ttp://<a href="http://anandasmantra.wordpress.com" target="_blank">anandasmantra.wordpress.com</a></i><br><a href="http://porchtimechats.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://porchtimechats.blogspot.com</a><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;height:16px"></span><span style="color:rgb(102,0,204)"></span><br><br><br><br><div style="display:inline"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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