<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Jann,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Thank you for this little gem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You always give us a gracious and beautiful little piece of beauty. Thank you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am engaged in The Last Chapter at the moment, and it is so joyful to see my beloved colleagues from yesteryear! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We all look so healthy, we must be doing something right! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Much love from down here, with the Glasgow event looming, our Government appears to be dragging the chain on deciding </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">what to  do about our carbon reductions.  </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So glad to see your President will attend, while our Prime Minister will be a laughing stock, I fear.  Bultmann  will call it ‘ Lost </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Opportunity’. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However Hope still abounds! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">xoxo</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Isobel </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Oct 2021, at 2:02 am, Jann McGuire via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">THE SACRAMENTS</em></span></strong><br class=""></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">I once spoke to my friend, an old squirrel, about the Sacraments –</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">he got so excited</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">and ran into a hollow in his tree and came</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">back holding some acorns, an owl feather,</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">and a ribbon he had found.</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">And I just smiled and said, “Yes, dear,</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">you understand:</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">everything imparts</em></span></strong></p><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:14pt" class=""><em class="">His grace.”</em></span></strong></p></div>
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