<div dir="ltr">Reading David's poem several times (and Linda wants to print it and thinks it is right on for the "environment" of the "climate" work going on here in Redlands), I for some unknown reason started spinning on the relationship of our personal death in relation to the universe and nature, and the memory came up of growing up in the midwest and observing and being a part of the changing of the seasons, (the image of geese flying overhead). So David does not need to take credit for the following. But it was inspired by his able offering of yesterday. Milan H.<div><br></div><div> <b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Preparations</span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Preparing
our bodies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For the
great journey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Of our own
personal death,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Can we
pause, momentarily</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To notice,
oh so carefully</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The miracle
of breath?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Taking a
moment</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To acknowledge
the wonder</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the
passing by</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Of geese
flying northward</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the
Spring, returning southward</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the
fall?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The yin
and yang of nature</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Has been
the way of it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For Aeons
of earth time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Comes the
final preparation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For the
great separation—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Breathe with
it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Milan Hamilton</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">June 15,
2022</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:58 AM David Dunn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span>A poem</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><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><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from David’s iPhone</span><br><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">On Jun 13, 2022, Jim Wiegel wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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