<div dir="auto">Thank you, Ellie, for your wonderful birthday witness. I was in a recent discussion about the power of poetry, and this illustrates it well.</div><div dir="auto">With peace & love,</div><div dir="auto">Nancy </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 9:37 PM Ellie Stock 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In the midst of being impacted by all that is going on now globally, nationally, ecologically, politically, economically, culturally, and personally, I hope you also being sustained and nurtured by the deep wells of wellness and wholeness during this Christmas season.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Below is a birthday witness, not a song, despite the title, provoked by the end-of-life sessions faciliated by Dick Alton and similar sessions during our church Sunday Forums.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Grace and peace as we enter the new possibilities of 2023.</div>
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LAST SONG<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><b style="font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent">One last song as light recedes to light</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> One last song still falling in love
with Life<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> One last song in gratitude for birth<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> One last song in gratitude for Earth<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> for Creation’s mirth and
expanding girth<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">One
last song for Spirit’s rising Cry<b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></b></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for
heart’s ecstasy and ebbing sigh<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So, THANKS BE for Awe-filled
misting mountain sunrise skies<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For big tree
forests and butterflies<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For sandy sea shorelines
scattered with shells,<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> sparkling and gurgling in surging
tide’s swells<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)"><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></span></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For kittens and birdsong
and tiny green tree froggies<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> piercing my being with wide red-eyed
gogglies <u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For brilliant fall
leaves and snow-blanketed cities<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For wind and rain
and weather proclivities<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For morning walks,
sensing Nature’s delights<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For evening
ponderings of things out of sight<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For awakening aroma
of blossoming orange grove and peonies<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For yummy ice cream
and healing fresh fruits and veggies <u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For dark night
desert skies and bold winking stars<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For crescent moon
and Venus kissing from afar<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So . . .<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Ref<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So, THANKS BE for
homes and hearths and hearts of hope and humor and welcoming the </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:medium;background-color:transparent">guest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For close family
bonds and covenant love, passionate embraces and babes at breast<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For beloved friends,
colleagues, and the communion of saints who gave more than their best<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> living their care and dying their
dare, ashes to ashes, dust to dust<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For smiles and
laughter, celebrations and commemorations giving life zest<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For humbling
struggles and empowering quest<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For meetings and
movement marches embodying a vision<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">of resilient, Earth-integrity
communities of diversity, justice, and communion<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For the arts that
enliven and encourage the soul<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For wisdom that
enlightens and transforms our goals<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For silence and
stillness that melts us into deeper and broader dimensions of self and love<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For pilgrimages
that honor countries and cultures with renewing compassion<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For Beings of the
Way that live with passion—that sing and dance and partner in solidarity<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> with Those Who Care, with those who are
suffering<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For the unconditional
Word about Life that frees us to Know, Do and Be courageously:<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Life is Good; I am Beloved; the Past
is Forgiven; and the Future is Possibility<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For the Atomic and Cosmic
Song and Dance, Grace from particularity
to eternity<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For the wonder of Earth,
our Common Home, our Common Origin and Destiny<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For the joy and
grief of Life’s journey’s Calling from 13.8 billion years ago<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Through rise and
collapse to the seventh generation, may it be so… in<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Hope beyond hoping<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Peace passing understanding<u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></u></font></span></div>
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