<div dir="auto">Thank you Judy for your resilient, spirit-filled stance in these turbulent times. Sometimes the needed response is quite illusive, and daunting; the most local community gardens, recycling, and artful expressions can symbolically fill the vast need for social change, especially if we seek pathways to scale up for deep impact. I keep one eye on my five grandkids, (ages 8 to 19) to see how they are processing the news, relationships with neighbors and with Eunice (77) and me (78). With memory issues rising, we are trying to sharpen our priorities and stay active socially. Our exchanges online and celebrations of life help to refresh the depth of our long-term friendships. <div dir="auto">So let's all stay calm, ride the Sea of Tranquility, and stay in touch.</div><div dir="auto">Praying for Peace.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In gratitude and respect, Sherwood </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 8:36 AM Judi White 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 dir="auto">Grateful for our spiritual friendship thru the years and now🧡🧘💛</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 6:41 PM Robertson Work via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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">
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 5, 2025 10:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Earthrise <<a href="mailto:earthrise@wedgeblade.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">earthrise@wedgeblade.net</a>>; Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Earthrise] Annual Reflection</font>
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Now celebrating having circled the sun 81 times as an earthling. This year wasbeen full with extreme encounters with life's blessings and death's door from publishing Bodhi Leaves (well received), to a sibling's reunion and death ( of one of us (bringing
us closer), to election of the collapse of democracy (opp for practicing resilience), to occasion of losing half the blood in my body (yeah, near death experience!), to Rocky Mountain High retreat where 80 sang happy birthday and two of my poems were read
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1 August 2025 In the Silence<br>
The path lined with gray rocks of many shapes <br>
Defining the way between ponderosa pines, <br>
Huge boulders and gardens of fragrant heather. <br>
Clouds in the sky overhead appear close enough <br>
To reach up and touch <br>
Their billowing build up of tears waiting to shed. <br>
The Blazing Mountain claims its nobie challenges <br>
As it hides the sun's arrival on the eastern horizon <br>
Casting elusive shadows on the path, <br>
As the sun makes its way to the mountain's peak, <br>
Continuing its daily journey westward. <br>
Shad0ws fade as the mountain blazes angrily <br>
While sun spotlights the boundless resources of the Baca Grande<br>
And the plateau sings out the power of [possibility <br>
And wild creativity across the beauty of its landscape. <br>
I, standing in the tension Between the noble challenge of the blazing mountain <br>
And the vast possibility and wild creativity of baca grande, <br>
Breathe deeply into path of small stones <br>
Arriving home where I am, <br>
Welcoming overwhelming joyful gratitude <br>
For this opportunity to be so alive and able to love , <br>
Celebrating this vow to be One with the three jewels -<br>
The Buddha, The Dharma and The Sangha <br>
In these times of great traumatic change, (for which we were born) <br>
Vowing to sustain courage to heal and be the healer of suffering.</div>
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