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<div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">Hi Milan,</font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">Thanks for creating and sharing. Still pondering "Great Expectations" . . . "For Earth" or "Great Expectations for Earth".</font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">Rhythms and the arts for resistance, visioning and hope--as Minneapolis and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Half Time have shown. </font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">Just returned from a Know Your RIghts Immigration Training Session. One of the last things that the presenter said was", "Singing is key to these efforts and movements "--so keep singing and composing and writing poetry--out of the depths . . .</font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">Ellie <img title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f642.png" width="16" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">elliestock@aol.com</font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font size="3"><br></font></div>
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On Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 04:22:37 PM PST, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp2259c3cbyiv6163416629"><div dir="ltr"><div>When I get depressed about what is going on in the world, I tend to write poetry and song lyrics. I've been writing a lot of poetry lately. I am attaching one I have been working on for about a week called Great Expectations. I read it to my writing group today after which there was a definite period of silence. No response either from Marvin, my MAGA friend/nemesis on my right. It came out of a memory of a poem written by Thich Nhat Hanh during the Vietnam war, which brought up thoughts of our departed colleague Larry Ward. </div><div><br></div><div>The song came up because Linda has been after me to write singable lyrics for some of our Song Book songs. It is called For Earth--For Life. The lyrics are actually singable with the Tune Country Roads (aka All the Earth Belongs to All). But I tried to get something still singable that wasn't tied to the "good old songs" we all sang. So I just wanted to share these with those who care. It can get lonely out there sometimes. </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp2259c3cbyiv6163416629gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mellow Milan Hamilton<div>80 North Center Street</div><div>Redlands, CA 92373</div><div>Phone: (909) 943-1667</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:mellowmilan2@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mellowmilan2@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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