Reading David's poem several times (and Linda wants to print it and thinks it is right on for the "environment" of the "climate" work going on here in Redlands), I for some unknown reason started spinning on the relationship of our personal death in relation to the universe and nature, and the memory came up of growing up in the midwest and observing and being a part of the changing of the seasons, (the image of geese flying overhead). So David does not need to take credit for the following. But it was inspired by his able offering of yesterday. Milan H.

Preparations

Preparing our bodies

For the great journey

Of our own personal death,

Can we pause, momentarily

To notice, oh so carefully

The miracle of breath?

Taking a moment

To acknowledge the wonder

In the passing by

Of geese flying northward

In the Spring, returning southward

In the fall?

The yin and yang of nature

Has been the way of it

For Aeons of earth time.

Comes the final preparation

For the great separation—

Breathe with it!

Milan Hamilton

June 15, 2022

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:58 AM David Dunn via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

A poem

The Unspoken Yes

What we can not see

makes our blood to flow,

our lungs to fill

and our bodies to breathe.

What we can not hear

lives in silence everywhere,

comforts us always

and saves our lives daily.

What we can not touch

is beyond all knowing,

but arises in our awareness

and seeks us before we ask.

With the eyes of a lover,

open, intense, insistent,

this Holy Mystery invites us

to meet in our yearning.

In such gifted times,

when darkness glows

and silence hums

the Unspoken Yes,

we begin to live again,

as at birth and death,

while the universe

watches itself expand.

David

Sent from David’s iPhone

On Jun 13, 2022, Jim Wiegel wrote:

The unknown is what is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. John Lennon
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