<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=""><div class="">A part of the UNIVERSE story . . . And on it goes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, David Dunn</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="5" color="#0433ff" class="">“We’re here to put a dent in the universe.” </font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="5" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>~Steve Jobs</font><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img apple-inline="yes" id="BF09B03B-849D-4002-ABEE-FB3F32D47EC3" src="cid:502168E9-105E-487E-BDA3-A8D4EE257474" class=""></span>
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</div></div></div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:58 PM, David Dunn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class="">A poem</span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Medium;" class="">The Unspoken Yes </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">What we can not see</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">makes our blood to flow,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">our lungs to fill</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">and our bodies to breathe.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">What we can not hear </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">lives in silence everywhere,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">comforts us always</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">and saves our lives daily.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">What we can not touch</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">is beyond all knowing,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">but arises in our awareness</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">and seeks us before we ask.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">With the eyes of a lover,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">open, intense, insistent,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">this Holy Mystery invites us</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">to meet in our yearning. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">In such gifted times,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">when darkness glows</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">and silence hums</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">the Unspoken Yes,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 13.3px;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">we begin to live again,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">as at birth and death,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">while the universe</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">watches itself expand.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;" class="">David</span></div></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Sent from David’s iPhone</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="" class="">On Jun 13, 2022, Jim Wiegel wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="" class="">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" class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">OE mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br class="">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>