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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, both, David and Milan! Lynda C.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of OE List <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>OE List <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 1:56 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>OE List <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2@gmail.com>, OECommunity Community <oe@wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] Apropos the Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Preparations</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Preparing our bodies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For the great journey</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Of our own personal death,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Can we pause, momentarily</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To notice, oh so carefully</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The miracle of breath?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Taking a moment</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To acknowledge the wonder</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the passing by</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Of geese flying northward</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the Spring, returning southward</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the fall?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The yin and yang of nature</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Has been the way of it</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For Aeons of earth time.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Comes the final preparation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For the great separation—</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Breathe with it!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Milan Hamilton</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">June 15, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A poem<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeue-Medium",sans-serif">The Unspoken Yes </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;min-height:13.3px"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">What we can not see</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">makes our blood to flow,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">our lungs to fill</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">and our bodies to breathe.</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;min-height:13.3px"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">What we can not hear </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">lives in silence everywhere,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">comforts us always</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">and saves our lives daily.</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;min-height:13.3px"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">What we can not touch</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">is beyond all knowing,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">but arises in our awareness</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">and seeks us before we ask.</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;min-height:13.3px"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">With the eyes of a lover,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">open, intense, insistent,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">this Holy Mystery invites us</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">to meet in our yearning. </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">In such gifted times,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">when darkness glows</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">and silence hums</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">the Unspoken Yes,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;min-height:13.3px"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">we begin to live again,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">as at birth and death,</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">while the universe</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">watches itself expand.</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light">David</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from David’s iPhone<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On Jun 13, 2022, Jim Wiegel wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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