<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">Thank you to our very own Poet Laureate.  I would often think that when you spoke there was a poetic quality to it.
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<div>Joan Knutson<br>
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From: David Dunn via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Apropos the Unknown<br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Medium;">The Unspoken Yes </span></div>


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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">What we can not see</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">makes our blood to flow,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">our lungs to fill</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">and our bodies to breathe.</span></div>


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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">What we can not hear </span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">lives in silence everywhere,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">comforts us always</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">and saves our lives daily.</span></div>


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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">What we can not touch</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">is beyond all knowing,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">but arises in our awareness</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">and seeks us before we ask.</span></div>


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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">With the eyes of a lover,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">open, intense, insistent,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">this Holy Mystery invites us</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">to meet in our yearning. </span></div>


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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">In such gifted times,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">when darkness glows</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">and silence hums</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">the Unspoken Yes,</span></div>


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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">we begin to live again,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">as at birth and death,</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">while the universe</span></div>


<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;">watches itself expand.</span></div>

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Sent from David’s iPhone</span><br style=""><br style=""><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Jun 13, 2022, Jim  Wiegel wrote:<br>
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</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>
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