<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">So beautiful David,<div>Thank you,</div><div>Ellen <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 14, 2022, at 1:58 PM, David Dunn via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">A poem</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Medium;">The Unspoken Yes </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">What we can not see</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">makes our blood to flow,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">our lungs to fill</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">and our bodies to breathe.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">What we can not hear </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">lives in silence everywhere,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">comforts us always</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">and saves our lives daily.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">What we can not touch</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">is beyond all knowing,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">but arises in our awareness</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">and seeks us before we ask.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">With the eyes of a lover,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">open, intense, insistent,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">this Holy Mystery invites us</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">to meet in our yearning. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">In such gifted times,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">when darkness glows</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">and silence hums</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">the Unspoken Yes,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">we begin to live again,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">as at birth and death,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">while the universe</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">watches itself expand.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">David</span></p></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div>Sent from David’s iPhone</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">On Jun 13, 2022, Jim Wiegel wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The unknown is what is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. John Lennon</blockquote><div dir="ltr"></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OE mailing list</span><br><span>OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</span><br><span>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>