Thank you, both, David and Milan! Lynda C.
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Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Apropos the Unknown
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: