<div dir="auto">Phyllis, Thank you for sharing your lovely poem written from your heart. I will light a candle now for you and Len's peaceful presence - yes in sacred space and time. 💛🧘🧡 Judi</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 11:38 AM Phyllis Hockley 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"><u></u>
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<p>Thanks, Marilyn,</p>
<p>Hope things are going well for you. Len is on hospice. 16 years
of Parkinsons is catching up.</p>
<p>We are in Assisted Living so have lots of care.</p>
<p>Peace, Hope and Love,</p>
<p>Phyllis </p>
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<div>Reading about the deep power
of connection I remembered a morning when in meditation
I felt this deep connection to sacred earth and grabbed
a pencil and begin to write my thinking. This came out.
A little ditty of what I was sensing.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Connection</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">The whole earth is
sacred, and our connecting is key.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">And it’s the best way
I know to help you and me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">For when we’re
connected, then deeply we care.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Slaughtering elephants
for tusks, almost too much to bear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Â And how we treat
earth’s creatures, as the sacred they are, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Will change things
completely both near and afar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">And if the guy that is
hungry is sacred too,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">I better think about
feeding him, isn’t that true?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">When I see all life as
sacred, and my connection is there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">My love is overflowing
and I know how to care.</span></p>
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9/7/2025 6:27 PM, James Wiegel via OE wrote:</p>
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Thanks, Milan. An abrupt ending.
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<div>I ran across this from W. H. Auden last week.
 I think it is somehow related . . .</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">What we
used to mean by fellowhood</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:25.8px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px"></span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">"One
fine summer night in June 1933 l was sitting
on a lawn after dinner with three colleagues,
two women and one man. We liked each other
well enough but we were certainly not intimate
friends, nor had any one of us a sexual
interest in another. Incidentally, we had not
drunk any alcohol. We were talking casually
about everyday matters when, quite suddenly
and unexpectedly, something happened. I felt
myself invaded by a power which, though I
consented to it, was irresistible and
certainly not mine. For the first time in my
life I knew exactly — because, thanks to the
power, I was doing it - what it means to love
one's neighbor as oneself. I was also certain,
though the conversation continued to be
perfectly ordinary, that my three colleagues
were having the same experience. (In the case
of one of them, I was later able to confirm
this.) My personal feelings towards them were
unchanged - they were still colleagues, not
intimate friends — but I felt their existence
as themselves to be of infinite value and
rejoiced in it.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">I
recalled with shame the many occasions on
which I had been spiteful, snobbish, selfish,
but the immediate joy was greater than the
shame, for 1 knew that, so long as I was
possessed by this spirit, it would be
literally impossible for me deliberately to
injure another human being. I also knew that
the power would, of course, be withdrawn
sooner or later and that, when it did, my
greed and self-regard would return. The
experience lasted at its full intensity for
about two hours when we said good-night to
each other and went to bed. When I awoke the
next morning, it was still present, though
weaker, and it did not vanish completely for
two days or so. The memory of the experience
has not prevented me from making use of
others, grossly and often, but it has made it
much more difficult for me to deceive myself
about what I am up to when I do. And among the
various factors which several years later
brought me back to the Christian faith in
which I had been brought up, the memory of
this experience and asking myself what it
could mean was one of the most crucial,
though, at the time it occurred, I thought I
had done with Christianity for good."</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">~ W. H.
Auden, from his Introduction to</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">'The
Protestant Mystics',</span></div>
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edited by</span></div>
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Freemantle</span></div>
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Wiegel</span><br>
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<p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“We are all time
travelers journeying into the future. But
let us make that future a place we want to
visit. “     </span><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Stephen
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<div>My writing group, the Joslyn Joy
Writers ( a bunch of seniors who meet
weekly to share what they are writing.
They thought this one was worthy so I am
putting it out there. The assignment for
the week was to write about the "Land of
the Lonesome" but I took a liberty and
wrote six "Haikus in the Land of the
Lonely" and then put it to a simple tune
and added my voice. We have to continue in
poetry and song what we can't say any
other way these days.</div>
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