<div dir="auto">Where we are can obly be expressed in poetry alive in the one great heart. Thank you for sharing your true gift to all. I hear the healing music in your wotds. In gratitude, Judi🧡🧘💛</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 8:51 AM 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Reprise:  How Then Shall We LIve? (in such a time as this . . .)</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Ellie </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="mailto:elliestock@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">elliestock@aol.com</a> </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">           <span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?</span></i></b></span> <br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">What do we call what calls from the deep,</span></i></b></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that pulses through stars and quickens heart’s beep,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that surges through waves and cleanses with fire,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">emerges from dust and breathes soul’s desire?</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">What do we name what mocks human pride,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that bends the Tree of Life, sustaining being’s tide?</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How do we greet what calls to our deep,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that lasers vulnerabilities and loves us from fear’s sleep,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that mourns lost illusions and leaves us defenseless,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">transforms the present moment and awakens all senses?</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How do we embrace what eternalizes finitude,</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that opens wide portals, flooding tears of gratitude?</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How do we know what calls us to decide,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that gives no guarantee and provides no place to hide,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">t</span></i></b><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">hat beckons all our care and trumps the doubt within,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">reckons despair and hope and connects all creature kin?</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How do we abide in what struggles to create,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that explodes time and space, freeing partners with Earth’s fate?</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How then shall we live what chisels passion’s edge,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that re-sculpts past’s confoundings and empowers future’s wedge,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">that compels us far beyond mind’s strength or comfort zone,</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">propels trusting steps into great work’s bidding unknown?</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How shall we now journey in vast community</span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">with that which journeys through us profoundly and boundlessly?</span></i></b><b style="letter-spacing:-0.02em"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">                                                        </span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">                                                              ~ ejhs</span></i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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