Thank you Nancy For both pieces. With love, Isobel Bishop Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Jan 2020, at 6:25 pm, PAUL SCHRIJNEN via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
magnificent… both joke and poem…
thank you.
Paul
On 12 Jan 2020, at 23:18, Nancy Trask via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
First the amusing anecdote... from Karamo Brown of Queer Eye fame:
Karamo: You need not worry about death, you should worry about what state you’re in. Jonathan Van Ness (in a horrified whisper): New Jersey!
And the poetry: When Great Trees Fall >> >> by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, >> lions hunker down >> in tall grasses, >> and even elephants >> lumber after safety. >> >>
When great trees fall >> in forests, >> small things recoil into silence, >> their senses >> eroded beyond fear. >> >>
When great souls die, >> the air around us becomes >> light, rare, sterile. >> We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, >> see with >> a hurtful clarity. >> Our memory, suddenly sharpened, >> examines, >> gnaws on kind words >> unsaid, >> promised walks >> never taken. >>
Great souls die and >> our reality, bound to >> them, takes leave of us. >> Our souls, >> dependent upon their >> nurture, >> now shrink, wizened. >> Our minds, formed >> and informed by their >> radiance, >> fall away. >> We are not so much maddened >> as reduced to the unutterable ignorance >> of dark, cold >> caves. >> >>
And when great souls die, >> after a period peace blooms, >> slowly and always >> irregularly. Spaces fill >> with a kind of >> soothing electric vibration. >> Our senses, restored, never >> to be the same, whisper to us. >> ”They existed. They existed. >> We can be. Be and be >> better. For they existed.”
― Maya Angelou
Grace and peace,
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