tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39350624021320742682024-02-20T04:04:28.788-08:00Alla Bozarth Words and Images Welcoming Light in the WildernessWelcoming Light in the Wilderness~Nourish Your Soul~Celebrate Divine Presence in the Wonders of Creation and Yourself as a Natural Work of Art and a Creative Person~
Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-77073309624328928022012-09-30T19:48:00.005-07:002022-06-29T00:51:44.601-07:00We Are Welcomed Here by Nature and Grace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="uficommentbody">Alla Renée Bozarth </span></span></span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="uficommentbody">Below~ </span></span></span>The sky is filled with the colors of dusk with Mt. Hood over the Sandy River Canyon, filled with pink fog, called "dragon's breath" by some of the locals. Then, under a daylight blue sky, you can see the river wending its way through the valley with mountain forests all around.</b></div>
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<b>Mt. Hood with the Sandy River Canyon</b><br />
<b>and the Vaeretti Farm in Western Oregon. </b><br />
<b>These photos are by Alla Bozarth.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">To see some spectacular celestial images from the Hubble Space Camera with poems, and more terrestrial images, including a United States Geological Society picture of post-eruption Mt. St. Helens showing a heart-shaped Spirit Lake surrounded by wasteland where rich forests once were, with poems such as "The Interior Landscape" and the beloved poem "Belonging," put to music now by several composers, and the whimsical poems, "Why We Exist," and "Time Party," along with the creation-centered celebratory poem, "She Loves It All," beginning, "When God was a girl . . ." please visit "The Great Communion~ Why We Exist" post found in the right hand margin. </span> </b></div>
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that aren't among the easy to see and open Pages at the top of the right margin
menu. Five of them are seasonal and one is general, but I hope, worthwhile. To
visit any of those six posts (May 2012 Easter, February 2012 Valentine's Day, January 2012 Epiphany/Russian
Christmas, December <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">5</span>, 201<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1</span> "I Can't Wait for Christmas!" and December 5, 201<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1</span> "Star Sermon"
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Beginner's Mind") first posted from 2011-2012 then topped with this
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see the titles of the posts in order to make your selections. To do that,
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to my Garden of Rosa Mystica at Wisdom House! The first rose shown above and also following is
called "Pristine." I love every flower, tree<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, </span>blade of grass and so-called weed here,
but if I had to choose a dozen favorites, that picture would be among them.
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changing beauty, beginning with a ruffly topkn<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">ot</span> mood, and then a rare time when it was in nearly total blush,
and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">after that,</span> how it appeared quite differently on October 2, the Feast of the Holy
Guardian Angels one year. Actually, it was 2012, but today is May 28, 2016, so
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> On Mother<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s' Day, 2013, I looked over my shoulder coming back from a walk</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and saw<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"surpri<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">se by</span> joy~" </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the rose c<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">alled </span></span>Promise, </b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a diamond teardrop rose in twilight rain,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Two Twilight Pictures (without and with flash) of "Promise"</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">A Holy Family Portrait</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">September 2015 </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And now, a visit to the Ocean!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Here is Haystack Rock with the Pacific Ocean</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">off the shore at Cannon Beach, Oregon,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">my coastal home w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here I visit sometimes to balance</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the wonders of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the</span> mountain forest home where I live</span>,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">at the foot of Mt. Hood in the Cascade Mountain Range</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of Western Oregon. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This visit was during the wintertime. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In the first, you'll see <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a few of Haystack Rock's</span> Needles,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">haunted Tillamook Lighthouse on a rock in the distance.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Mothers' Day Spring at Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">1997 ~ photo by Robin Carey </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Body of Water, Body of Land</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">this is where my soul lights
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and lands, deep into the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the thick clay that is the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">portion of Earth’s body I
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">this is the watery sea of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and rivers of life that flow
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">all I am in the world, the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">remembering now and then the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when All was One, and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">voice were, if imagined, yet
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">this is the wonder and glory,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">this is the now of me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and soul saying Yes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Frequencies of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Northern Oregon Coast~ Photo of Haystack Rock with Needles,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">6am </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on Mother's Day Morning, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">by Alla Bozarth, 1997.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>wanting to fly in the air. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">gather iridescence into their arms,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">ascend— </span></div>
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others born to depth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">dive deep and longer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">passionately seeking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">source level—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">her heart rises to vibrations </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of radiant essence below— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
bright ambassador traveling down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and down and down, dancing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in spiral balance for aim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">careful not to rush</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the sacred deepening . . .</span></div>
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until sea waters pull her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">into divine luminescence,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">realms of unknown beings . . .</span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">creatures who live there are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">more alive than mere humanity, and her humanity </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">is more alive there also—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
below dense darkness they meet at explorers’ end—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">their bodies landing to light in light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a secret access flame to resurrection—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
star swimmers who have gone past the depth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">where light can penetrate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">astronauts of the bathosphere— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
they delve through dark matter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and after eons find themselves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in angels’ nests of poetry and sea stars—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
woven of moving lightning,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from them arise deep mournful songs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that haunt our salty air—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
then starfish somersault to where such strange creatures </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">shyly show themselves to visiting explorers, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">human sailors in a deep sea galaxy— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
when they rise without words,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">shining from the journey,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and return to normal ground</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">where we await them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">they carry new depth within them—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
eagerly, unable to wait to tell us, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">they come into our arms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">bearing purple, viridian and blue flowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of luminous wisdom, and we open our ears,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">our eyes, our minds and our hearts to receive them~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> from<i> Sea Galaxy, </i>for Dr. Sylvia Earle </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The
Frequency of Light</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Copyright 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">. . . Bowing into the surf </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">my body that is one </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">lifts into wave upon wave. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My blood is at home.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I hold the ocean in my arms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> from <i>Mama Sea and Mama Rock</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Alla Renée Bozarth~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>This is My Body ~ Praying for Earth, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Prayers from the Heart</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">iUniverse 2004<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Accidental Wisdom ~ </b>iUniverse 2003<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Stars in Your Bones ~ </b>Bozarth, Barkley and Hawthorne</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">North Star Press of St. Cloud 1990<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Water Women ~ </b>Wisdom House Press 1990 ~ audio </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Photograph above of Haystack Rock with Needles and seagull <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in sunshine w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as</span> taken by me (Alla) on Mother's Day 1997 at six in the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">morning when I was too excited b<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y being there </span>to sleep.</span></span> </span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I took all of the pictur<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">es of flowers on this blog. </span>P<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hotographs of me <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the ocean<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> with Haystack Rock and the Needles </span>in winter were taken by John Jarman, as was this striking image below of a copper wire stat<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ue <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">created </span>in<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> mem<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ory of<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Joe Police, who was the Cannon Beach Mayor and main artist in 1980 when he died suddenly at the age of 51. He left the design for the sculpture and his <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">artist </span>wife completed <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the work</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in loving memory.</span></span></span> It show<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sacagawea, guide for the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery E<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xpedition<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s</span>outh of the end of the trail<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. S</span></span>he is</span> pointing to the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great Ocea<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and </span></span>f</span>lanked by Meriwether Lewis and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">William</span> Clark</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. Her husband, Touss<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">aint </span>Charbonneau, sits at <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her feet<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are not made of salt and water and glass, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">come hurricane wails or high laughter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">this is like a story without
a plot</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and only one character~</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that is, the world</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">it is a story about movement</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and color, the movement is
fast</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and slow in pursuit of the
beloved</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">this is the first
enchantment</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I am watching a fast-forward
world</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">with slow motion eyes,
everything</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is desirable but I never am
able</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to catch up with it</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">things keep missing my
touch,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">too fast to notice the
gesture</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of contact and good will</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to tell someone a story it
is necessary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to tell many stories that
make up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the novel hologram of a
life, and there</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">are spirals of stories and
the spirals are</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">layered six deep, more or
less</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so here in my slower and
slower way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of both watching and moving
within</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a faster and faster world, I
manage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to focus on the sheer
transparent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">movement of color, shapes
bathed in deep</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">red and bright purple, tones
from fuchsia</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to coral, magenta and rose,
shimmering</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">because at their speed all
the electrons</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">light up and plug into each
other</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so there are luminous
circuits of almost</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">love going on in all directions
and everywhere</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">my life is a nesting doll
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and my way of thinking</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and talking about it or</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">anything else is as</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a beautiful but smudged</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nesting doll that has been</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">touched while still drying,</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and the grooves of the
smudge</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">form beautiful, intriguing
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the many hidden beings reveal
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in colors that caress the
eyes and massage the mind,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">they are painted in viridian
green, intense fuchsia, royal purple,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and the dolls' images are both human
and floral</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">when one opens the largest</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of the dolls all the way
down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to reveal the smallest, it
is</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the soul being revealed,</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as every layer looks the
same</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">but for some small essential</span><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">distinctive detail, and each
unique</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">doll wears a different
perfume</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">which is discernible only until</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the next doll shows itself,</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and the room lights up</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">with a new scent— cardamom,</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">cucumber— Persian musk,
melon,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">vanilla, brown sugar, amber,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> cinnamon, cocoa, raspberries,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or the divine depth of
hunger and joy in the body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and mind while an orange is
slowly being peeled . . .</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and it is the soul . . .</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the smallest doll and</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the largest, and each doll</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">between— and the generous</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">open moment when the larger</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is coming apart in order</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for the smaller inside it</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to be born all over again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in a new light— it is the soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nesting Dolls Reprise</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today in <i>Discover Magazine</i> I read about a theory
that says</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Black Holes are so
loaded with Energy that they make</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the Energy in our
Universe combined seem dim.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, it is
plausible to imagine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(as if anyone could)
that our whole universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(which is infinite)
is inside a Black Hole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is inside
another Universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is inside
another Black Hole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is inside
another Universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is inside so
many others of each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that the only way to
deal with any of it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is to say that they
all exist in the Infinite Mind of God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just as every idea,
every creature (including you, your worst enemy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and your best friend,
the moon, your favorite river and the Milky Way)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all live in the
Infinite Mind of God, and because of the Nature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Divine
Mystery, we might assume that we all live there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with equal need for health,
wisdom, good will and love.<b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Health</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Wisdo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">m</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">G<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ood Will</span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 2013</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Every human bond,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">whether with a
person</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of any species— that
is,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">an organic living
being—</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or with something
whose life</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">is mysterious and
secretly self-defined</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">such as a mountain
or star—</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or an image or an
idea</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or a being outside
of time,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">a dweller in realms
of mind</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or an inhabitant of
spirit—</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">a task or place or
project,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or an object that
occupies</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">a space in time and
heart or mind—</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">every bond has its
own</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>landscape</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mythscape</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inscape/escape</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>soulscape</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and is a place of
possibility</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">to infinity,
including</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the possibility of
ending.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">If endings come,
retreat</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">to some chosen,
known</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">haven, a healing
place</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">where you are known</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and never (or rarely
and benevolently) judged—</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">a place where you
are loved</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">beyond your own
powers to love</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">yourself or
sometimes others—</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">And in that place of
befriending,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">whether friendship or
flowerscape,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">innerscape or
dreamscape or meaningplace </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of work, or in the
floral-colored waves of ocean </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or many-mountained
forest light and darkness—<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">enter the beautiful rooms
in the house of your soul.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Learn by being there</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">what peace can be,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">what love can come</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">to the quiet heart,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">how well your soul</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">can feel in
unmolested</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">circumstance and
solitude,</span></div>
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fully</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and eventually, happily,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">you can become
yourself again,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">or perhaps for the
first time.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla
Renée Bozarth</i> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Swinging Over the Edge of the World</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Quartet</b>, copyright 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I wasn't making any music! But I made a decent statue: Girl with Violin. That was about it. (Notice that embedded in the poem below in the picture of me at about five, posing for Mama in my ballet tutu, <i>I am sitting</i>.) My three violin lessons taught me one thing: how to tell time. Even though I look old enough to tell time, apparently I didn't have reason to want to until I began those lessons. There in that empty auditorium of the Wood Village City Hall, I simply had to know what time it was as my hurting fingers struggled to follow instructions. Every five minutes or so I politely asked the teacher, "Is it time to go home now?" Dear God, P L E A S E.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My patient teacher finally said,
"When the long wand on that big clock on the wall is at the very top,
which is 12, and the short wand is down there on the right at 5, it
means 5 o'clock, time to go home." I grinned in appreciation and stopped
tormenting her. <br /> </span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm crazy
about excellent violin, viola, lute and cello music, especially the
violin concerti of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart
and Max Bruch, and so very glad that I discovered early on that my real
vocation is to listen and appreciate with full spiritual and sensory
response. I'm a good audience member, even if it hurts too much to clap.
I bring my hands within an inch of each other to avoid nerve pain and
grin all over, whooping in large auditoriums freely, and am often the
first to jump to my feet in tears, as when the Bolshoi came to Portland,
and almost any opera I've seen, but especially Aida, when Tiki the
elephant came on stage and stopped center stage to give her best ballet
curtsy, showing us her painted toe nails, her jewels, her silks of
bright colors, and her beautiful crown of rubies and gold. Three
thousand human beings simultaneously leaned forward in their chairs,
sighed audibly, "Ooo!" and fell in love.<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]">As for that rather misleading picture taken by my mother in our living room, as if practice were underway, a friend commented that she had the very same outfit and remembers it well. I guess it was the little girl uniform of an era. I don't remember the dress, the socks, the shoes, the
bows. But I remember the house, the room and the day when I watched
Mama's Russian </span></span><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">refugee
cousins bring two violin cases through that front door and we opened
them to find our beautiful instruments as a thank you gift for Mama. She
took lessons, too, but followed in my path of discovery that we had no
talent for the instrument. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="messageBody"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">Mama's oil painting of a Chinese Gentleman [in a deep red
garment] is partially visible on the wall behind me in the violin picture. She loved painting him and always said he was her spirit's guide and inspiration.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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this posed picture taken, but I do remember our living room~ beginning with
watching our television set for the first time in order to see Queen
Elizabeth's coronation. That was the reason Papa purchased the set, but
then came the switch from <i>Amos and Andy </i>and <i>Our Miss Brooks</i> and Jack
Benny on the radio to <i>Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, The
Lone Ranger, I Led Three Lives, the Mickey Mouse Club, The Cisco Kid, My
Little Margie, I Married Joan, Mr. Lucky, Dragnet, Perry Mason, Edward
R. Murrow's "You Are There," Disneyland, Superman </i>and every <i>90 Minute
Playhouse </i>(which launched Grace Kelly and many other future stars)~ not
to mention, being a delayed sleep phase insomniac from conception on, every black and white movie among the late night shows.
That's when I got to see Jack Paar launch <i>The Tonight Show</i>, and
eventually those early years of Johnny Carson with Cliff Arquette as
Charlie Weaver. He'd come on the show to read his daily letter from his
dear old mom in Mt. Idy~ "Things are fine in Mt. Idy," he began, and
then, "She goes on." That was the comforting, predictable, hilarious
formula, a distant prequel to <i>News from Lake Wobegon</i>. I also remember <i>Liberace</i> (and his brother George),
<i>Kate Smith, The Steve Allen Show</i>, Ernie Kovaks and his cigars, <i>What's My Line,
Groucho Marx and You Bet Your Life, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Loretta Young Presents,The Jackie Gleason
Hour </i>(with the fabulous, kaleidoscopic June Taylor Dancers), Ed
Sullivan~ and then other variety shows with Perry Como, Dean Martin, Sonny and Cher,
Dinah Shore, Red Skelton, Andy Williams and George Gobel. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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with either parent and sometimes out to the drive-in movies with both of
them. Ah, <i>Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Pork
Chop Hill, The Nun's Story</i>~ and Papa and I would go to the concession
building during Intermission and bring back foot long hot dogs and fudge
sickles for us and popcorn for Mama. This room is the last place I
wrote on walls, in living color, using my crayons to make my first
musical notes poems all along the baseboard. And all those parakeets who
lived with us flew freely here. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">Over the next few days I saw the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span 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id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">entire </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">bird, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">a brilliant green parakeet with </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">a high bright yellow </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">forehead </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">and a gorgeous </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">electric blue tail. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">Her brownish nose indicated that </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">she </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">was </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">a very mature lady </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">bird, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">a grand dame of her kind. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">She</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> adored her baths, just as our family member </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">parakeets did.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">I was so absorbed in watching her that I didn't think to take pictures </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">until </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">she</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> had finished all the pretty fluffing and chirping. Then when I tried to take </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">pictures from behind the kitchen window, either she looked too small,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> or </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">I couldn't time my camera </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">to her movement.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">This new friend</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">outside came to the seed feeder happily, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"><span style="font-weight: normal;">but spent most of her time bathing </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">and preening, using her nimble feet and claws </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">to get rid of all small invaders</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">hiding </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">under her feathers and annoying her. </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">She chirped like a professional musician and fluffed</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> her head and shoulder </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">feathers and turned her head from side to side in rhythm to her songs, </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">conveying</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">an attitude of friendly delight and complete satisfaction. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"><span style="font-weight: normal;">She enjoyed the company</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> of other birds</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> and loved living in the green foliage, </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">which atavistically </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">may have reminded her</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> of her native land </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">of Australia or </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">northern </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">South America. </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">I was very impressed with the conviviality </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">among the different species and families.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> Even the scrub jays were kindly to the little birds.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> The presence of this parakeet among the wild birds</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> seemed like a blessing from or upon my childhood,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> when my mother adopted 17 parakeets over a 10 year period.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> She taught the first one to speak in Russian, French, German,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> Spanish and English. He could say "I love you" in all of them,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> as well as ask what we were doing, dance with braided tassles </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">dangling</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> from the furniture, court himself in silverware and mirrors.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> When my father was very grumpy one morning, the little blue bird</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> hopped on his shoulder as he reached for the door, kissed him</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> on the cheek and said, "Cheer up! You are beautiful! I love you!"</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Then he repeated it in French and German.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> Papa left laughing. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">This little green bird brought back all the pleasure </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">we knew</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> in the truly convivial company of our parakeet friends. </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">I thought of the word, Paraclete, meaning companion, advocate, healer,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> comforter,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> written in the Gospel According to John as coming from </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">the encouraging words</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> of Jesus to describe</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> the Holy Spirit. </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">The pure gift of this little green bird's presence gave those qualities.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> The spirit that our new companion most embodied</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">was <i>joviality.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>It was impossible to watch her without being </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">greatly affected and uplifted by her spirit. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">My joy was complete when she returned today and was so engrossed</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> with her lunch that I could photograph her easily</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> among the red winged blackbirds, the finches and sparrows</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> and especially the quail, who also brought their children from the nest </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">up to the patio</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> for the first time this summer. It was the parents'</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>first reappearance since they disappeared six weeks ago to begin nesting.</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Seeing them and her peacefully among them like that,</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> I stood at the window brimming with happiness. </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">In our home of three humans and various numbers of parakeets at any given time, my parents briefly hosted a community theater
group, and I got to sit in on readings of <i>Hedda Gabler</i> late into the
evening, all</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> of which took place in our living room. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">On New Year's Eve we drank champagne in this room,
and one year George the old mother parakeet decided to light on the rim
of Mama's elegant crystal goblet and dip her beak into the bubbly. She
dipped it three more times and flew up in wobbles and spirals, but
righted herself and sang her little heart out through the night. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">Next
day Mama hosted Open House featuring her famous pastries and Christmas
Tree Cookies. Ladies poured at the ends of the table from her graceful
sterling silver service tea pots, and a variety of delicate English bone
China cups and saucers and plates displayed steaming amber tea and the
morsels I'd been helping Mama bake and freeze for weeks. These events
got a big picture spread in <i>The Gresham Outlook</i>, sometimes with me
admiring my mother's culinary art works and helping with the silver tea
service. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">Every
summer Mama's second round of Christmas Tree Cookies along with her
canned fruit and vegetables and her apple or berry pie and oil and
pastel paintings won blue ribbons at the Multnomah County Fair. What a
time it was. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">I also managed to read a few novels and biographies every
month and was quite fond of detective stories, preferring them to
fantasies. I read the Narnia books beside my mother's bed for the five days of her month with us during graduate school winter quarter that she slept while she was
dying just before my 25th birthday. One or two of them were familiar from childhood, but I had until then no opportunity to read the entire series, which proved a meaningful backdrop to my mother's last days on Earth. Phil and I had been married for a week when she had her first cancer surgery in September, and during the painful months of her illness and death, my new husband was not only a loving and helpful son to her, but he cheered and sustained me as best he could by</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">giving
me both</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Winnie-the</i>{ther}-<i>Pooh</i> and <i>The House at Pooh Corner </i>books and
arranging for a large incarnation of Pooh Bear himself to come live with us as our guardian
angel bear at Christmastime and ever since. My mother met him and immediately entered the spirit of Pooh Bear and loved him as we read his stories out loud to her as well. We also made tapes reading the stories aloud for my father who was in the hospital with asthma two thousand miles away. And later in the year, I performed "Chapter Six: In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In" for one of my master's degree courses, and Phil deftly painted storyline pictures for it. I let my hair down, wore a long granny dress and climbed up on a stool, the pictures taped to the blackboard behind me. Dr. Lilla Heston, sister of Charlton Heston, was one of the two professors in that small class, and they nearly fell off their chairs with laughter and relief along with the other master's and doctor's degree candidates, for we'd been immersed in particularly heavy literature all quarter. That sequence of reading events finally began my childhood. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1993055}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">My grandma and I adored Shakespeare and Keats, Shelley and Byron and
Emily Dickinson and yes, Allen Ginsberg, along with <i>Pogo</i> and <i>Peanuts</i>, and we spent hours together reading our favorite things to each other, but the ordinary reading
pleasures of childhood waited for me to finish reading my fill of Freud
and Jung and the classic philosophers and the Spanish mystics and start writing poetry before childhood finally took hold in my twenties when I married my life's best playmate, Phil. Singing and playing guitar while I listened and
danced, and every night reading aloud together, the entire canon of
Sherlock Holmes and Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Whimsey mysteries as well
as <i>T</i><i>he Hobbit </i>and <i>The Lord of the Rings </i>trilogy (this was in 1971), <i>The </i><i>Wind in the Willows</i> and Pooh stories and Paddington Bear's as
well, he gave me my childhood, and I am still playing with him and Pooh
Bear, dancing with them easily across the borders between Heaven and
Earth. With such help as theirs, I have been getting younger ever since.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]">It
all sounds quite blissful because I wrote</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">
about some of my favorite memories. The reason why I could watch so
much good television (tell-a-vision) and read so many books is that with
lifelong fibromyalgia I was physically ill much of the time, hit hard
with all the childhood illnesses which lasted much longer than normal,
as well as allergies compromising my respiratory system with frequent
bronchitis and asthma as well as the usual annoying and exhausting sinus
involvement. And there were the numerous eye surgeries over the years
that followed the stroke I had just after birth. The gift hidden in all
this is that during that period when I was getting better enough to feel
bored just lying there waiting to feel well enough to resume
activities, I could enjoy books and the gifts of writers transformed by
actors and film makers which were there at the turn of a nob for my
enrichment. Those aspects of my experience are what I remember, because
the misery is simply not helpful or useful to remember, but quite the
contrary, it unnecessarily diminishes and defeats my present energy for
life. Why perpetuate painful times when there are only so many minutes
for memories in a lifetime, and we could be enjoying and benefiting from
positive ones? </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">To remember is to relive, and the body responds
accordingly, for ill or for good. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">Swiss analyst Verena Kast wrote a
wonderful book called, <i>Joy, Inspiration and Hope</i>, in which she advocates
healing and maintaining the mind and soul by encouraging clients to write their
autobiographies of joy by remembering and thus reliving their happy
experiences instead of habitually dredging up the traumatic ones.
Beginning the re-membrance back to as early as possible, one starts out
more or less sequentially, but then in the practice and growing habit of
thinking in this very healthful way, one invites moments to emerge on
their own, revised as they rise through the layers of experience,
allowing them to come spontaneously in any order. I began doing this as
spiritual practice for myself, as well as teaching it to clients in
addition to my dream work with them. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">One summer afternoon after my tea
brunch first meal of the day, I sat at the round glass top patio table
that doubles as a summertime altar under the cherry tree and wrote in my
journal. I have always said that my first memory was of falling down a
flight of stairs when I was 18 months old, but sitting there at the
table and eating ripe bing cherries, I breathed in pure pleasures and
realized that I had done this before. And given the weather and what I
was doing, it would have been this same time of year. I was in my baby
tender in the back yard. Mama had left me there to enjoy the bliss of
solitude in the care of the big old cherry tree and with the sweet,
uncomplicated companionship of birds and flowers. I delighted in looking
up and watching the play of light on the leaves, the dance of shadows
and sun on their green bodies as the summer breeze moved them around. My
eyes danced with the play of changing self-revelation of the elements
in the scene. I felt the air moving the warmth of sunlight and coolness
of shadow over my skin and became part of the dance. Ripe cherries were
blowing loose from their stems and falling all around me. A baby tender
is like a card table with a chair recessed in the middle of it, and from
my place there I could lean over and grab the sweet juicy gifts
dropping into my range of reach. A robin stood near</span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> the edge and joined
me in the cherry fruit feast. I giggled and squealed with pleasure. This
was all the bliss in the world. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">When I finished writing it all down, I
realized from the weather and ripe cherry indicators that I had to have
been 16 months old. THIS was my true first memory, and not the traumatic
fall down the stairs! I laughed out loud, leaned back in my chair, and looked all
around to see the details of where I was~ sitting at my table under the
cherry tree, eating sweet, dark cherries I'd purchased from a farmer in
town, and beside me were the birds eating and singing at their feeder. It was the same scene, 44 years later! I was
literally experiencing the same event and circumstance as in my first
memory of Being Here. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">What an important revelation, that first <i>happiness
</i> can create a template for the rest of our lives, and this one was the
template of Paying Attention to Beauty and embracing the gifts of
creation with awareness, joy and spontaneous, absolute gratitude. All it
takes to move from focus on a negative life pattern of pain,
frustration and suffering is to find a deeper event, one that held us
together before trauma, one that sealed the connecting wires in our
brains that would give us access to Heaven on Earth which we could
activate by intention and focus, a kind of mental search engine for an
emotion of innocent pleasure and harmony, and then, begin doing so in
different ways. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment362157780559625_1996882}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">In fact, when we can't locate those connections, we can
borrow them from stories, books, movies and music outside ourselves, receiving them as if they were our own sweet memories, which they are, for we're not stealing other people's thoughts and memories but allowing ourselves to be so empathically present to them that we receive the telling and giving of their words as if we were <i>with </i>them<i> in </i>the experience they share.
Thus, we have within us the means and power to see ourselves through
hard times with a simple activation of memory, imagination and full
presence to the sensory details of the scene and our own positive
emotional responses within it. This is a way to survive anything
spiritually, mentally and emotionally, and to retain our sense of being
able to hold onto our best selves. It's how prisoners of circumstance
such as illness, war, or any kind of upheaval or loss endure and even
enjoy solitude and intuitively overcome isolation by being Elsewhere in
their minds and souls. Happiness is a repeatable sacrament. The gifts I
received under the cherry tree were my first and ongoing Holy Communion.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Violin Lessons</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Mama tried hard to help me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">discover my talents, if any.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">As it turned out, there were not many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">First, there were the treks on smelly city </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">buses and her holding my hand as I shyly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">met the Russian head of the ballet school </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when I was three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Nicholas Vasiliev
School of Dance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">(in the Hollywood district of Portland </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">near<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Emanuel Hospital where I was born)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">constituted several storeys of a round tower</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">at the corner section of an art deco era </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">building, with a huge 7Up sign in neon lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on the top of the dance tower, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">painted the same shade of mint green </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">over stucco until a half-century later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I was nine when we gave up. Or maybe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">we saw that I had gone as far as I was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">able and my time with ballet was fulfilled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When I was first learning to move in response </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to music, trying my hardest, I could never </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">figure out where my body<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was </span>supposed</span> to be </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">relative to all the other little
bodies, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">though secretly in private for the rest of my life, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I would
often break into a take off from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the imprinted positions and movements </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and launch myself into musical ecstasy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">More wonderfully, the learning experience </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of dance gave me the basis for freely </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">extrapolating when Spirit would decide </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to take hold of me in a spontaneous act </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of worship and joy would twirl me into </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">something once described by a bishop </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as charismatic liturgical dance or gospel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">boogie, which I frequently still practice </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">around my kitchen floor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> The Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> 25th anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Post-Communion Dervish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Alone with a friend and her camera afterward,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">cooling off from hot flashes and the sweltering </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">July heat of Philadelphia, 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I was five when Mama accepted the gift of two violins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from her Russian cousins brought over from Germany,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and she decided we should take mother-daughter </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">violin lessons. Ballet was confusing, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but the violin was an ordeal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It was there in the city hall of Wood
Village </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that the local choir
director, Norma Sherman,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">inadvertently taught me how to tell time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">rather
than how to play the violin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My eyes were riveted on the big round
clock </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on the wall and I would ask, I’m sure every </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">five minutes, “Is it time to
stop?” or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">“Can we go home yet?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Weary of the interruptions, she explained to me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">about the
numbers and the long hand and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">short hand moving around them. I think Mama </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">must have felt as I did, for this experiment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">did not last very long.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Next it was swimming lessons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">For six summers in a row</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">it was swimming lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I still can’t swim but I’m an expert</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">at the dead man’s float and can do </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a decent dog paddle from one side </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to the other of the shallow end of the pool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When I was nine and ten and maybe eleven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Mama herself tried to test her own arts on me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">not so patiently teaching me to sort of cook,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but really, to pass her things as she went about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">her extraordinary art of baking and making</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">exquisite dinners. I was very good at washing up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and fascinated by her skill, but had no interest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">beyond that except in enjoying her end products,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for which she was famously known and awarded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The same with sewing. I did make a whole outfit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for myself, and was dutifully proud, but relieved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when the subject never came up again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I can do well with buttons and hems, and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a rough back stitch for mending seams,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and a small bit of darning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It’s enough for my needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Then Mama set up her easel and gave me her palette</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of oils and pinned up a picture of a tree by a winding
stream </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and told me to paint. I was photographed in the local </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">newspaper beside my effort, but God knows why. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Mama was regularly
written up for her consistently </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">won blue ribbons at the county fair for
her beautiful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">paintings in oil, her textiles, and especially her pastel </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">flowers, as well as her jams and pies and canned fruits </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and pickles and vegetables. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I loved the trips downtown to the art store </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when she bought
her supplies, the delicious smells </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the colors, the feel of the chalk
powder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">rubbed between my fingers, each color </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a different texture
and scent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The last thing my mother taught me actually worked,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and given the natural friction between our personalities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and her unhappy and irritable temperament and inclinations </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">toward angry eruptions, it was amazing how well we did </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when she taught me to drive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I remember sitting in the back seat of the used 1948 </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">ugl<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y</span> green Chrysler with fluid drive during<i> her </i> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">driving
lessons a few years earlier, how she tried </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to back out of a parking lot by shifting into second gear </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and lead-footing
the accelerator, and the next thing we knew </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">we’d broken through the brick
wall facing us and found ourselves </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">surrounded by surprised butchers in the middle of a meat locker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Perhaps Mama had vowed that if I showed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the slightest talent and promise for driving, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">she would see me through so I could </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">drive her around afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And I did enjoy driving, but when Papa gave me the keys </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to my own white Plymouth Valiant for my sixteenth birthday, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I had no further interest in driving Mama’s fancy second
hand </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">1956 red and cream Oldsmobile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Papa also stumbled onto the other thing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">which I enjoyed when he, for a change, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">drove me to my piano lessons for two
years, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">until I was left on my own with a wonderful </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">old grand piano that appeared in our living room </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">picture window when I was thirteen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">After that, the torture of lessons over, I soared, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and ever
since the piano has healed and saved me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and seen me through much
insanity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the sorrows of the world, as well as the joys.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Here's the baby tender, tucked up to the piano which right away I knew </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">was my instrument. I guess everybody forgot that, but when I was nine, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">someone must have found the picture and I was launched on my true path, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">for my and God's ears only, but it makes my soul happy.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Besides Mama giving me the skill and Papa the means </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to freedom on wheels, I also did in fact accidentally
discover </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a talent, or at least a liking or two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It was because of the old Remington
Monarch typewriter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibA6kpx_7gYELQZ34siJtYpwCr73sNLKQhkksLcI5OSLVmeex1sRHLoSQRaKwTe351oVNLjhD-YGwRGSAzHwQh16eYxv2YNIBik-C_lkBubo0WaA28dpXpktoF4-wxHbskIdfKkbWlV6g/s1600/Remington+Monarch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibA6kpx_7gYELQZ34siJtYpwCr73sNLKQhkksLcI5OSLVmeex1sRHLoSQRaKwTe351oVNLjhD-YGwRGSAzHwQh16eYxv2YNIBik-C_lkBubo0WaA28dpXpktoF4-wxHbskIdfKkbWlV6g/s320/Remington+Monarch.jpg" width="320" /></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with the black and red ribbon that I inherited </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from Mama, the aspiring novelist, (probably to break</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">me from the habit of writing along the baseboards </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the living room in Crayola) when I was four or five. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It served me well in preparation for the piano and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for writing letters of
appreciation to all the people who, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">like my mother and father, are
wonderfully loving and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">generous, able to sooth and comfort a person in pain, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">endlessly patient in compassionate care, capable in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">useful arts as well as the breathtakingly beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Because of my parents being who they were,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I have the ability to recognize richness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the human
spirit, to take genuine interest </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the stories of others, and because of them, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to forgive easily, while protecting
myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as much as I can from the harm they do not want </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to do<span style="color: blue;"><u> </u></span>but cannot help but do. And this I understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Therefore, I daily thank my parents in heaven </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for helping me discover the gifts of the healing power </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and transforming joy of creative and performing arts, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of friendship, passion and compassion, which allowed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">me to find in myself a natural talent for appreciation </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when I regard these treasures in others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">As with those hours struggling with the violin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">pained by its nerve-piercing sounds artlessly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">made by my
fingers, but learning how to endure, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">how to wait, and how to measure the passage of time, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">easily and speedily abandoning what does not </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">suit me without the least sense of shame or
defeat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but eager to keep the search going, I have learned </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to look
forward to the next experiment or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">surprising adventure, to be open </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to unexpected success and the value </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of apparent failure, and to remain alert </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and receptive to every miraculous effort</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">toward Grace which might still bring </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the best possible thing by the best </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">possible means at the best possible time,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>And what happens in the kitchen sometimes~</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Nothing but Some
Angel, Better Let Her In</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">There I was minding my own business trying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to eat a salmon salad sandwich when it happened.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The music came on. That’s what did it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Some celestial creature without a body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">wanted to dance, dropped right down </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">into my feet, rose up from there and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">took over my torso and arms, and we </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">were up and dancing around the kitchen,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">making fancy tread marks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the indoor/outdoor carpeting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">She sort of muttered or whispered,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">“excuse me,” when she first slid in, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">like a skinny person sliding her way </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to the front of a crowd at a rally or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">music
fest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">After that no need to guess—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I was a more than willing partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This angel could move, could <i>make </i>moves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I couldn’t make, took up with Tchaikovsky’s<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Scherzo and Waltz for
Violin,</i> did steps that thrilled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">my usually bumptious feet~ little quivering side kicks~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and twirled without getting dizzy, then went into</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">slow tango leg twists and kicks front and back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from the knee, shifted easily when the hips and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">shoulders got into slow rhythm action</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to Paganini’s <i>Sonata
Concertata for Guitar and Violin</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">She became positively Puckish with small, quizzical,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">jerky gestures to Mangore’s <i>El Sueno~</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Dream of the Little
Doll,</i> then<i> </i>sat down for a minute</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to sip a little water during Carl Maria Von Weber’s<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Jubilee Overture.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">She rose again and went all arabesque</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to Vivaldi’s <i>Sinfonia
in G,</i> when the arms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">scooped heaven right into them and curled it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">around the room, giving the lower body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">less intricate work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">She was saving up for my decision just then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">(I thought it was mine) to turn on a cassette</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of <i>A Prairie Home
Companion</i> in time to hear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Arlo Guthrie get down with<i> The St. James
Infirmary.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This angel was born for the blues. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Blue smoke rose right up out of the tape player</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as she closed her eyes and let our dreamy body</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">sway where it wanted, hips moving slowly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and leading the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">God, that angel was happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No jumping around, no fancy footwork,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">just those confident, earthy hips and soul-blue smoke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">coming out of the player to the end of the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">That angel danced down to the end</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the gambler’s blues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The show closed with <i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>So Long, it’s Been
Good to Know Ya,</i> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and by the time we switched back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to radio and the Gregorian Choir</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">came on to sing Palestrina’s<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Voices of Ascension, </i>she
was gone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And God, I was happy.<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b>
<b>The Frequencies of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V0cS1HizUQc/UWC_9DAI5pI/AAAAAAAAC8Y/7-RS-2v3sl8/s1600/Dancing+Dress%21.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V0cS1HizUQc/UWC_9DAI5pI/AAAAAAAAC8Y/7-RS-2v3sl8/s320/Dancing+Dress!.jpg" width="220" /></a>Stretching after dancing with the angel, Matisse's painting, "Harmony in Red," in a poster above me. In the lower right corner of the poster is a photograph of me with the original at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia in March of 1992, just three months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union on the day after Christmas, 1991. I was in Russia with my artist friend Julia Barkley (whose paintings are featured in <i>Stars in Your Bones</i>). We were making a poet's and artist's pilgrimage of significant places. I had brought a small photograph of my mother as a young girl in Russia and intended to bury it at the tombstone of Tchaikovsky in the old Laura cemetery around Holy Trinity Monastery at the end of the Alexander Nevsky Prospekt. A few years earlier, I had seen a moving documentary about the great mother of modern Russian poetry, Anna Akhmatova, which included her funeral, illegally filmed by Andrei Voznesensky in March, 1966, in the Naval Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas. The first thing I asked our guide when she met us at the airport was whether it would be possible for us to visit that church. She looked at me strangely and responded, "How did you know? It's the first place I'm taking you!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">We arrived at noon during a Divine Liturgy for the Dead. I walked straight to the large icon of the Virgin of Kazan and lit a candle for my Russian ancestors and another one for my mother. Having lost track of time in our traveling, I asked Julia, "What day is this?" She told me that it was March 27~ which meant that it was the twentieth anniversary of my mother's funeral in the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in Portland, Oregon, where I was baptized as an infant before my father became an Episcopalian and entered the priesthood. While I was hastily packing a few nights before, I suddenly got the idea of taking Mama's photo from Russia and burying it in the earth, returning her to her Holy Motherland. As I tucked it into my luggage I thought, "What is today's date?" I checked the calendar to see that it was March 23, the 20th anniversary of her death. When Julia and I visited the monastery with our guide she pointed out the graves of Pushkin's family members, of the writer Dostoevsky, and composers Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">There was a beautiful but sad angel seated above his grave, watching over him, and the guide said, "Tchaikovsky was a very unhappy man, a homophoblic homosexual, an unrecovered alcoholic and manic-depressive who made everyone around him miserable . . ." I asked if Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was psychologically healthy. She said, "Oh, he was a cheerful and very decent person." When everyone had gone on, Julia loaned me her Swiss Army knife and I dug a small hole through the ice and snow into the thawing earth and entrusted my mother's mortal image there, as I hoped her spirit would delight in the perpetual joy of listening to the Easter Liturgy bells and music of this composer whom we both loved, as well as that of his neighbor who, perhaps, was still in heavenly recovery for all that had distressed him in his mortal life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">On the day we visited the Hermitage, designed by Catherine the Great to be her private retreat section of the Winter Palace which had now become the home of the largest collection of Western Art treasures in the world, we had very little time and aimed straight for the 19th and 20th century painters. When I came into a small gallery past the Impressionists and was instantly surrounded by the dancing colors of the Fauve artist, Henri Matisse, in my excitement to see a familiar beauty from a wall of my own home, I bumped the edge of this painting, "Harmony in Red." The old woman who guarded the room scowled and shook her finger at me. I went up to her the very epitome of contrition, and humbly said, "Izviniti," <i>excuse me</i>, and then with my hand over my heart, "Prostiti"~ <i>I'm so sorry</i>. Then I searched the distant aural memories of childhood and found the right words: "Krasavitsa" ~<i>be</i><i>a</i><i>utiful</i>, sweeping my hand around the room's paintings, and then to her, eye to eye, "Spaciba"~ <i>thank you</i>, and "Blago slavi tibi Bozhe,"<i> God bless you</i>! She melted into a beautiful smile and embraced me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When Easter came later that spring, the Russians heard all their bells begin to ring at dawn, starting with the Mother Bell in Cathedral Square at the Kremlin in Moscow, followed by all 1500 bells of the city, each in its own sequence, as all the bells of the cities and villages from Kiev near where my mother was born on the Black Sea to Vladavostok where Siberia juts into the Pacific Ocean began to ring, and the people listened, overcome with emotion to hear the sound that had been silenced for the previous 75 years.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">“Prose is walking,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">poetry is flying.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Flying or swimming.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Dreams allow these</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">ground-free elements,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">and buoyancy above,</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">below.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">As dreaming to waking,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">so poetry to prose.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">As wisdom to knowledge,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">so poetry to prose.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Prose is a green pasture,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">poetry a wildflower field.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">in her own country, sits</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">at a kitchen table in her</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">friend’s apartment — She writes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">a line on a sheet of cigarette</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">paper, hands it to her friend.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">They both memorize the line,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">then roll a cigarette and smoke.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">This is the hard way to get published —</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">blowing smoke rings out the window</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">printing poems in the air that people
breathe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Prose is Akhmatova standing in line</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">to visit her son at a Soviet prison.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Poetry is her saying “I can,” to another</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">mother who asks, “Can you write this?”<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Prose is sending poets to prison.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Poetry is the poet in prison secretly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">composing poems by heart,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">going right on with the truth<b>.</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Prose is </span><span style="color: black;">noon</span><span style="color: black;">, poetry dawn.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">As singing to talking,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">so poetry to prose.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Prose is walking, poetry is dance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">You can do it in the sky,</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">or in a cave under water.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You can do it lying down.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You can do it in loving arms</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">or any kind of prison cell,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in union or in solitude.<span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Poetry lets you walk through</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">all the walls.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Poetry moves.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">It takes you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">where prose cannot go</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">or dare not go.</span></span></div>
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Moskva (shown on the Internet under "cheap rooms") on the bank of the
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Alexander Pushkin's wife, Natalia Pushkina-Lanskaya, painting by Bullov. Pushkin died in a duel with French regiment officer<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Charles_de_Heeckeren_d%27Anth%C3%A8s" title="Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès"> Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès</a> for attempting to seduce her, or perhaps because he was an agent sent by the Czar to kill the husband standing in the way of the Czar's desire to take her for his mistress. She was internationally renowned for her great beauty. To protect it from desecration, Pushkin's body was buried in a secret grave near Black River, where he was killed. When I got off the Metro train at the underground Black River station I saw a beautiful black statue of the great poet there in memoriam.</div>
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Monastery of Alexander Nevsky Lora (chief monastery) with cemetery where I buried a small photograph of my mother next to the grave of Tchaikovsky at the tombstone of Rimsky-Korsakov whose Easter Liturgy Mama and I listened to together and loved.<br />
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Grave of Alexander Pushkin's wife, Natalia Pushkina-Lanskaya<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> ~</span>for Anna’s Children, and Emma’s and Ida’s
Children </i></span></span></span></span><i>and their Families, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> with Special Thanks to
My Cousin Walter,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> who told me this memory~</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anna was Mama’s cousin’s wife.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her summer kitchen in Old Russia was a haven.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Years ago in America,
Anna told me about her joy</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in baking the golden braid bread,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how shiny she made it, with egg white spread</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the dough, the envy of all the young mothers.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her oldest child, now a grandfather, tells me</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about the architectural landscape of memory,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and his face becomes transfigured—</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every time I see him now, I ask for the story</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">again, just to see his eyes light up like a sunrise</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over the rim of childhood . . .</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Someone decided the summer kitchen</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">needed a fence, so we planted sunflowers</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a big circle, and ivy in between, and fruit trees</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">above them. The sunflowers grew eight feet high</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and when we harvested the flowers for seeds</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we bent the stalks and tied them to the fruit trees</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to form a lattice-like fence. Then the ivy grew all through</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the stalks and bloomed, beautiful little white flowers</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that smelled like heaven. On warm nights we slept</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in bunks between the trees, dreaming of bread</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for breakfast, hot from the oven. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we awakened from dreams of ripe peaches and plums,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">huge dark cherries and yellow pears, their blossoms or fruit</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">were all over our bodies. . . . The men let me sleep, for I
was </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">too little </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to go out to the fields. Though I wanted to work,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">true smells and listening to the welcome of day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while the birds and I said Grace without words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and enjoyed our breakfast in bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were no shadows of the future then,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">only the women’s laughter and the tastes of summer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the songs of the men as they came home for tea~~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we chased the fireflies at sundown for play.”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></i><br />
<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Diamonds in a Stony Field</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 20008</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Leav<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ing the Alexandre Nyevsky Lora</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">At home again, in harmony~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Here I am with Gabriel the S<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">einway model M</span></span>, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which was originally owned and played by Grace Cool<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">i</span>dge~ </span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Rachmaninoff, anyone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <b>My True Instrument</b> <b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b> The Shamantool</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">To play the happy medium</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven — </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">my fingers dance possessed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">across a black and white
pattern,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">creating color between the
counted lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">So it comes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the sought release,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the finding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of one’s soul,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">coming home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to center</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">after</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a cold winter’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">wandering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">To move out of spin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">slowly, widening the angles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of one’s space, returning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to one’s own rhythm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">at rest in stillness — </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and then take off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with grace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the remembered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">storm!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The power and sound</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the hands’ dance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I could not play so well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Book of Bliss</b>, iUniverse 2000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The wounded healer silk mimosa tree </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Secret Garden in Winter Rain</span><br />
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from the Back Door Porch Ledge<br />
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Deer with the Weeping Sequoia Phil Tree through the Back Door</div>
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whenever it wants to, or more likely, for no reason.</div>
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wherever you are.</div>
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of love-cursed Callisto, who became the Great Bear,</div>
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her celestial body embedded with stars.</div>
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a forest of ancient sequoias, saints.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Goldfinch Chorus in the Backyard</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Goldfinch Mailbox at the Roadside</span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">with Silk Mimosa Tree in a Grand Yoga Stretch</span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Welcome </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>double file virburnum tomentosum mariesii </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">A quail king on the autumn Japanese maple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the
quail, giving them terrible chase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from afternoon
peace at their seeds?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No. It’s
one of them. I come closer to see </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
funny but elegant black and white mask </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
curlicue hat worn like a crown by male quail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Such a
large animal of his breed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">larger
looking for lying on his side</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if
pressing into the pavement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
My hands full of dying </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">leaves,
I finish my duties to still living plants, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">admire
and bless the bloom of Promise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in its
deep pinkness, marvel at a small single bud</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">giving
wing to blushing white Pristine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All this
must be done </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before
we go into our caves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
begin the long sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those
who have joy of a garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">also
have responsibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, the
trowel to dig a warm burrow into earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for
planting the muscles and feathers of this holy bird, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his
curling feet now up in the air, eyes closed to indicate absence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was
king of his kind in his day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which
was yesterday and last evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Did he
go out with a thud, throwing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">himself
against the garage, or was he</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">simply
strolling with the family to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what
possibilities of breakfast presented</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">themselves
in the backyard, and while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">looking
keenly ahead, be taken down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by heart
failure?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now his
old clothes come into my tender care.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I carry
them to the front yard to tuck his memory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the
rose bed between Pristine and Fascination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sacred
but not serious, will his molecules recompose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and come
up blushing Pristine in spring, or in Fascination’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rich-colored
corals changing to gold-centered magenta, spreading</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its silky
petals fully open from bud into wings?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
liquidambar tree still holds onto its bronze and gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Magnolia
has lost its dried seed pods and is busy with shedding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nearby.
Silk Mimosa perfume has gone back into ancient bark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earth to
Earth, I return this blessed being</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">head
first into ground. Swim down, fly around</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the
mysterious as all your atoms loosen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">free of
themselves and find new dance partners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wish your
spirit happiness as the seasons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">change
and ready this body in which you walked and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sometimes
flew for dear life, so that next spring you may,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through
roots and green stalks, begin new ascent </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">toward
the sun, to know joy again as a rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 2013.<b> </b><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>All Saints and Souls Feast Days</b><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">One has to rev up for a major feast.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">All Saints Day means winter flannels</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">on the queen-sized bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Means outdoor chores and tucking in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">things in the garden.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">All Saints Day means return of the sun </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">after blessing fall rains, and birds’ descent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">from the shelter of trees to the joys of sunbathing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">on still-glistening grass of new green. Small mammals</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">cavort in the bright patchwork leaves.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">The work of winterizing takes its toll and needs weeks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of preparation, informing the initializing mind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of what needs to be done so the body will be primed<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Then comes the day, blessed with fresh sunlight,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and the mind-body wakes and says, Now.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">And now we begin.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">This is the day of beginnings.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">This is the day to welcome a season</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of cuddling and cooking, after summer’s</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">long lazy graze on garden salads and bread.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">This is the day to remember illustrious ones</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">whose names are inscribed in gold</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">in the Book of the Dead.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">When All Souls Day follows tomorrow,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">it will be time to invite our own most intimate,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">transfigured beloved to our candlelight tables</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">to celebrate their lives with us— </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">now translated to those radiant landscapes of Paradise</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">we cannot imagine, where they are tenderly planting gardens</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of honey and stars on the sites of our own future homes.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">And the light they bring with their love</span></span><br />
and their promise of joy is well and alive.
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<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></div>
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<b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This year-long all-in-one meditation on the seasons of the northern hemisphere, the liturgical calendar of my tradition and the seasons of the soul with tributes to many inspiring people can take you to Any Time. The <b>Pages</b> on the right are <b>from November 2011</b> with <b>Wisdom House, Book Covers</b> and this page for <b>Home </b>added, but scroll down past the <b>Members' images </b>to find <b>December 2011</b> for <b>First Word/Wisdom & Wonderment</b>, Advent's <b>Star Sermon</b> and <b>I Can't Wait for Christmas</b>, and for <b>Epiphany and Russian Christmas</b> at Bear Haven <b>see January 1, 2012</b>. Read about the God-as-Mother-Bear metaphor there and on <b>May 1, Seasons of Resurrection</b>, and find love poems of all sorts on <b>February 1, for St. Valentine's Feast</b>. You can visit Christmas in summertime~ or Independence Day in March if you click <b>"View my complete Profile"</b> at the end of the right menu to choose <b>"Voting Well~Giving Thanks" </b>or visit any other single-topic blog site listed there~ and from <b>this main blog of Welcoming Light,</b> you'll find Easter all year through. You'll see living color images everywhere~ some of them from the Hubble space camera and some from my front yard and back pasture. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the disappearance of those we love into the darkness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the body of our days— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">into fragments of the past— hurling itself like a black wave
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">over every experience faster than we can experience it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to unlock and open ourselves and decipher the hidden meanings . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">where we live our increasingly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">isolated, stark and abstemious lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">soon the spirit will so outgrow the body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that the body will yield it to heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">soon the body will no longer need</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">its spirit, and the soul will pour out of it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">like warm honey from the hive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">can this every day life we live be proper practice for
paradise?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">this emptying, this recurring fall of day into night?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">any day, night may spill its secret gifts before us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with paradise full born, abloom and radiant in our souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <b> </b><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i> <b>Purgatory Papers</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Moment of Grace</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No matter the relationship</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">between beings—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Whether friend to friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Whether teacher and student,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">apprentice and master,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">or both as equals and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Whether one is hurt and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the other is hurt and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Whether one is open </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Whether both are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No matter how many languages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">after the last sigh has been sighed</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">what follows that effort </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When they meet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that moment all </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that matters is the light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Thanks to William Stafford fo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">r the wo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rds in italics, parap<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hrased from his poem, "<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gaea<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">."</span></span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Winchester Cathedral, a birthday gift</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">three years ago, blooming and bedazzling this summer!</span></div>
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A thin scar reminds<br />
the body and mind<br />
of how they can mend<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> for the work they must do—</span><br />
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To live with integrity as much as possible,<br />
to speak the truth prudently but clearly,<br />
to tell the story they have lived<br />
to help others free themselves as well,<br />
to discern right action and do it,<br />
to safeguard the helpless and<br />
protect and help those in need.<br />
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One knows one’s purpose, to live<br />
until one has helped as many whose lives<br />
can be pulled from the fire as one can,<br />
or until one has done the many small<br />
tasks that fulfill a loving life.<br />
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Wisdom regards this person with others<br />
in many individual moments of Grace<br />
and smiles, celebrating what remains <br />
of such a life, and in the minds<br />
of all whom it's blessed— for between<br />
any two beings who have generated <br />
a pure light together from sacred<br />
or even unsacred darkness, in all <br />
that remains, there is only the light.<br />
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<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">comes the soaring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">comes the shower of fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the comet, the meteor, the wonder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to think~ that from a single ion of hydrogen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">come the stars, come the waters, come us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Frequencies
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Copyright 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Compass Rose</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> All creatures suffer. Even the roses suffer.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> All you have to do is observe them to see it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">If you want to learn com-passion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">so that you feel with other beings and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">your own soul without judging, exploiting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">dramatizing or attempting to control, but simply </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to learn how to pour the light of heaven </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">into the wounds of time and space—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">study the rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn the breath-giving beauty of a soul~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as the warm fleshy rose that lives and pulses </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the heart of time and a human being~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">or in the essential body of another animal </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">or tree, or in a single cloud floating past your field of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">or perhaps in the heart of the storm, should dark clouds
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and blow down thunderous breath over Earth~ or the heart </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of a river or the great mother ocean, whose water-blue rose </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">welcomes the swimmer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn its rhythms and moods, both calm and aroused—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the rose in a storm or basking in sunlight from rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn to discern between agony and ecstasy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">those extreme expressionists, those mirror twins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn the rhythms and colors of implosive despair </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and explosive anger and how they differ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from sorrow and joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Study the swirling shapes and the bundling coils, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the opening wings or self-containment of the rose— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">how with age, they increase and thicken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">To learn the compass points of compassion, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">carefully follow the changes in each petal, leaf, branch and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of several different kinds of roses throughout their separate
seasonal life spans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn each one’s vulnerability, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">each one’s rhythms of movement toward Grace </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from green bud to full bloom to browning petals, drying
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">After traveling the east, south, west and true north
completion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the cycle of the rose, only the central core gift is
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the life-laden rose hips with their potent nutrients,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">wrapped in rose-colored fibers that heal the body as tea, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and feed the songs of the birds to perfection<b>. </b><i> </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">October 7, with Japanese maple</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and last flowers of now, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">["Compass Rose<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" continued]</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This will be your lesson in compassion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It will become your compass through life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It will be the garment worn by your mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to all suffering Creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Let me be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Let me live</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Book of Bliss</b>, iUniverse 2000,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and<b> This is My Body~ Prayers for Earth,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Prayers from the Heart</b>, iUniverse, 2004.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pear Wood</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every August, late,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or early September,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I walk, basket in hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down into my orchard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to gather pears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The smallest of trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is always most generous,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always bounty, abundance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no matter what — drought,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blight, or barren neighbors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She gives and gives forth fruit,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">imperfect and blemished outside</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but exquisite and fine within.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is Empress in the garden,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">providing both food and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sweet pleasure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the juice of pears</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bathes my hands, seeps into my
skin,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the smell of pears fills the
house,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thank her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peeling and cooking her juicy
gifts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I understand why the ancient</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Black Madonna at Chartres</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its fruit is the shape of</span></span></div>
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body and soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it creates miracles of
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is often overlooked,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its gifts fallen back </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is faithful absolutely</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unto death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is Earth at her best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To taste it is joy.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<b>The Book of Bliss</b><br />
iUniverse 2000</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Sitting
on a rock in the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Salmon
River</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> watching
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">From
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">upstream
the rapids carry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">old
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">their
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Why
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Not
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">your
time is complete.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And
so is mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You
rest in sunlight </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">before
transforming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">into
earth and air.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You
dissolve your leafy form </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and
recompose into a thousand bodies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Nothing
ever ends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Everything
is always beginning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Shall
I find myself tomorrow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">shining
in a water drop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on
a piece of moss</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on
the bark of a tree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that
once was you?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Green
into burntred,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">old
leaf, our biodance began</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">millennia
ago, but today </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I
am glad to see you clearly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for
the first time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with
just these eyes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">my
changing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">partner! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Your
bronze body turns</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to
powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with
a crack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">beneath
my foot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Part
of you has already become me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You
are on your new way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You
will be back.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And
so will I.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">So
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">From <b>Stars in Your Bones: Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys</b>, Alla Bozarth, Julia Barkley and Terri Hawthorne, North Star Press of St. Cloud 19990; and<b> This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, Lament
and Praise, </b>Alla Renée Bozarth, iUniverse 2003. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i> <i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Sandy River, photo b<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y John Jarman</span></span></i></span></div>
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<i>Wahkeena Falls flowing to Columbia River</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">abreast the red summit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">of </span><span style="color: black;">White Mountain</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>With thanks to Artemis </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> and the poet Pesha Gertler.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When I
go walking out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">into the
wilderness of night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">without
a compass but only a light,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">sometimes
further blessed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">under the lampposts of stars,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">it
pleases me to see the long shadows </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of old trees on the road</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">forming
familiar bridges </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">or long trails I can follow—</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In
winter I watch for the crisp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">constellations
spread out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">against a black velvet sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and when
the ground </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and barn roofs are covered </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with deep winter coats,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I love
to dance with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">shimmering branches </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">swaying before me, mirrored </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in blue moonlight on snow.<i> </i></span><br />
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<i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Night Sky that
Loves Me</b> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> in <b>Quartet</b> ~copyright 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When I walk in the
dark,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I think the two tiny
headlights,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">tear-glistening on
either side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of my nose, do not
illuminate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">what is coming and
hide too much</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the light
within. But then it passes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and darkness returns
all around—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">until I follow the
curve of the road,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and as I walk, I see,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I swear it, a light
bigger than</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">my brain, a light
filling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the dark sky behind
me and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">illuminating the
road far</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in front of me, and
I look</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">over my shoulder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">expecting the full
moon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">pouring down its
radiance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">But there is no
moon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">There is only God.<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Night Sky that
Loves Me</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Sandy River canyon with dragon's breath fog rolling in~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Mt. Hood above all . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>At the End of this Road </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The
dream says wait</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">by
not-waiting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Enter
fog fully,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">give
yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to
the cloud</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">completely.</span><br />
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then turn around,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">not
to go back but </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to
see the other side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of
your self and the whole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">path
by which you brought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">yourself
here. Then hold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to
the Mountain. Stay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">until
morning.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Drink
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the dazzling gives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Eat light like a leaf</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and be transfigured. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn all the secrets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the
snowy desert</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">can teach you in one</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">incarnation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Do not think you are</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">waiting for another part</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of your life to begin. </span> </div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Be
intrigued. Be overwhelmed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> where
you are, taking time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> to note how everything comes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> to you unbidden to meet your desire. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Cultivate
not waiting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Learn
the new speech</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that
thin air makes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Where
you are is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">nearly
over and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">is
always. Wait</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">without
waiting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Moving to the Edge of the World</i></b>, iUniverse 2000</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Rose Window Mirror</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b><i>Inspired by Lyndall Johnson</i><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">By day, the rose window from the outside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">stones, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">too high to mirror the world or a soul. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Amiens Cathedral </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">To see </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">its true colors one must go inside. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In the interior,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>wonders show themselves freely </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to those who<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>go there with open heart, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">mind and senses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The rose window reveals its true colors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to the outside world only at night, and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the presence of human beings at prayer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">candles lit and power on, drawing forth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">{up, down, out or in} Divine Illumination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Artist: Stephen Wilson, St. Clare of Assisi Church, </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Houston, Texas </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and especially on starless nights~ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the honest-to-God soul's receptive presence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">invoking Divine Attention within becomes a beacon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">by which to orient ourselves. Let all who see be attentive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Choir window, St. John the Baptist Church, Whiting, IN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">By this goodwilling presence within, the House of Prayer becomes a holding
place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for yearning, a holy place for responsive thanksgiving, and a real Cathedral</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for the primary and mixed colors of All Creation. . . and it also becomes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a lighthouse of assurance for those outside who are at sea in their
lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">As we lift up our eyes, the jeweled beauty of the window
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to unnoticed beauty all around and within us, where
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The circle window works two ways with its inside and outside perspectives,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but only if there is a light source from the other side. Right vision through</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">From a lit room looking out on a dark exterior, the glass
becomes a mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">From a lit exterior into a darkened room, a mirror again. Illuminated
actors </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on a stage must sense the unseen audience and be mirrors for
humanity. </span></div>
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washes out color </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and blinds the eye, but good backlighting either way is
revelatory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The one in darkness will always see the one in light, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the one in light will not see what the darkness is
hiding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Light is merciful toward darkness. Darkness sees but may not
recognize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This is why innocence must be protected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The innocent assume innocence in others, the evil assume
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Darkness and light in themselves are merely themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The use we make of each is what generates goodness or evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">There is essential goodness in darkness, which renews and
restores</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">through the divine gift of sleep. Clear images are developed
in protective</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">dark rooms. There is essential goodness in light which
reveals, teaches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and bequeaths beauty. Both darkness and light are innocent
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">capable of being corrupted by unwise and unloving use, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">capable of being transfused with true goodness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Thus the window becomes the Tao, in which inside and outside
are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">mysteriously inseparable, empowering one another as do darkness and light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The seed of each sleeps deeply and wakens in its time inside
the other,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as the world sleeps in the soul and the soul wakes up in the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It reminds us that even here and now in space</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and time, we live in Eternity always, and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Eternity reveals itself
within us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Therefore, as we become more transparent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">suffused with the light of Heaven, we become</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">beacons of hope for each other on Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">May the darkness that gives light at the turn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the night and the light which gives darkness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">at the turn of the day reveal together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the true colors of
being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And so the mystery of the Universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">can reveal itself to us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a little at a time.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée</i><i> </i><i>Bozarth</i><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Postcards from Paradise</b><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> Copyright 2012<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> Artist Elizabeth Devereaux </i><i> </i><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> for St. Clare</i> <i>of Assisi Church, O'Fallon, IL </i> <i> </i><i> </i><i> </i><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i><i> </i><i> </i> <i> </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i> </i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IPdIWNC9YvU/UGzKuGg2BFI/AAAAAAAABsc/rVd2fC4mxD4/s1600/My+Own+Mt.+Jerusalem+at+Home,+Overlooking+Me.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IPdIWNC9YvU/UGzKuGg2BFI/AAAAAAAABsc/rVd2fC4mxD4/s320/My+Own+Mt.+Jerusalem+at+Home,+Overlooking+Me.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>The Tao of Decision </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">To everything, balance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Believe that life is<b> </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">powerful and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">mysterious.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Also believe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that human beings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">seem more so </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">only because</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">you are one of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In each case it is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">unique just how—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to every action</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">there is an equal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and opposite reaction,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and all things hold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">their opposite within</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">their own core.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> And the saying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as above, so below</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">may mean</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that stars grow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the garden and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">flowers bloom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the night sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Does this also</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">explain why</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I so often say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a loud No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">just before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a big Yes?<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b>Copyright 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>The circle rose window conveys balance, wholeness, integrity and joy. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>It is described by one artist of sacred geometry in color and glass as "anti-gravitational."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Lucky Poets </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Bad
luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>an
early success or the ability to do anything well. </i> Charles Bukowski</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">What great luck I’ve had, right away, when the first stroke in the form </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of a cerebral hemorrhage came upon me at the age of one minute and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">some seconds— followed by a childhood of corrective eye surgeries </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and all
the usual illnesses that hit twice as hard and lasted longer than </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with other children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The result finally was that I need all my senses to do everything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and still remain unable to do most things
very well, and also</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that I was able to read good books and watch good movies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to my mind's enrichment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I have had the good luck of an array of broken-hearted love
stories. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Ho hum. Marriage came when I was young, but it was difficult </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">because it was important to us both to love each other
well, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">so after 15 years of hard work, we achieved it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Then my
Beloved died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">By these experiences, some poets would say I was abundantly blessed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the tear-soggy field of
poetry. Plenty of sensible people would say otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Still, I’m not as lucky as Renato Grbic who, while fishing with his brother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">near a sixty-foot bridge over the Danube one day 15 years ago heard a splash,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the two of them were able to save a man flailing in the river.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">He said, "Look, it's a glorious day, and you want to kill yourself?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">He was so shaken that he decided to save as many others as he could,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for the bridge was favored by those wanting to end their lives, the only</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">high bridge in Belgrade over the one river of two that was cold enough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and deep enough with a strong undercurrent to carry people to their deaths.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Renato (whose name means <i>reborn</i>)<i> </i>kept vigil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">He would sit there under the bridge in his small motorboat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">fishing for the restaurant he owned, daydreaming and thinking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">about the desperation of the people he'd brought back, wondering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">if they got the help to live which they so obviously needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No one among the dozens he'd saved said thank you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">They said nothing, in fact, but later he sometimes found out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that some had cancer, some were too poor or too lonely to go on,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">some did it for so-called love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When a young woman of 22 told him she did it for her boyfriend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Renato asked, "Would he do it for you?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">All of them, he said, wanted attention and love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Of this he was sure, because they jumped in broad daylight to be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Thos<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e who were merely <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">attempting to euth<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a</span>nize themselves,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">homeless and dying too slowly and w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anting to spare themselves </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more agony<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>were</span> made to suffe<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">r</span> more an<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">d deeper despair from his effort,</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and may have jumped again <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when Renato was sleeping</span>, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then in</span> privacy,</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Though as many died as Renato had saved through the years,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">he became a complete expert at Danube
diving and responding quickly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">one by one back from their extreme baptism-by-immersion in the river—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">which then to their astonishment insisted on
rejecting them and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">gave them rebirth instead— protesting, dripping and
sputtering. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Some may have become ambivalent and were secretly grateful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Imagine changing your mind while aiming head first and falling fast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">toward rapidly moving dark water . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I would say that Renato and those he successfully saved by virtue </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of their lives significantly improving after such crisis have had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the best luck of all. They are already fine poets, body poets </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the soul's deep feeling, simply by being able to go on,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">designing their lives in ways mutually inspired </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">by one surprise after
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> ~ Diamonds in a Stony Field </b>~ Copyright 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> for Lyndall and Lora, after Paris and Chartres</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">For one, revelation
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the labyrinth
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that houses the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the Mother of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">For the other, a
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from a miniature
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">which she draws
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">heaven and hell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in beatific madness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In perfect union</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the mind returns</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Word is reborn
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with more ease,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Flower that Sees</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Light is not the means of seeing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">but the seeing itself . . . </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nKH-XsS7EWY/U_LkA7XcydI/AAAAAAAAEBw/Owdvh6nhy7o/s1600/IMG_1709.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nKH-XsS7EWY/U_LkA7XcydI/AAAAAAAAEBw/Owdvh6nhy7o/s1600/IMG_1709.JPG" width="240" /></a></span> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> We are not only new,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but a young species,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">unaccustomed yet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to the blinking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">toward pure beauty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">we know as light,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">looking around, dazed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as those who see fairies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of the corne<span style="font-size: small;">r </span>of their eyes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or find God as Queen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the candle flame</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on Friday nights only by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">peeking through luminous</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bones of their fingers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the faithfully rising</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">phoenix of the heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">It is no wonder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">we are scared.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Unready, yet longing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for mystery,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we make tragic mistakes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forget to give thanks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are grossly insecure<span style="font-size: small;">,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>lie to ourselves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about our plac<span style="font-size: small;">e</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>in the Whole:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">essentially small,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">small, essential.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For now.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Let us grow in our spirits,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">dear Universe, able to bear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with wonder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the dizzying facts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of what is: the real,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">relational nature of things,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">fragile spun beings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Raphael the Archangel is regarded as the defender against nightmares; the patron saint of the blind and those suffering from eye diseases and difficulties; of all who suffer from physical or mental illness; of nurses, pharmacists, physicians; and is also regarded as the helper of sheep and those who raise sheep; the protector and aid of travelers and youth; the helper of lovers and guardian of happy meetings. Raphael is the angel who stands at the portals between the seasons, especially those cardinal times of the light's balance before leaving and before returning again. Though Raphael is honored among<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the archangels, I always invoke the Seraphim with this masterful and blessed guardian, resplendent wisdom of night~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">you who bless the healers and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">these precincts of discovery, these vast</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the eagle
and ride on flaming wings of the Seraphim, you who raise the cry </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of patience and trust~ gently and powerfully free us </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">from fear and open us to self-transcending insight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Night, bring Hope, bring Splendor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Night, let your wings hover over us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">their shadows holding the luminous, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Bring Grace to our bedsides</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Bring Light to our words and deeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Then when Day hides again under your wings, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Sweet Night, Good Night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Contri<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bute</span> to Wisdom House </span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">whenever you shop at amazon.co<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">m</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by selecting the Smile pro<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gram option</span> </span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">at the link below to be<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gin your shopping experience:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-1322680">http://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-1322680</a> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Direct tax deductible contributions can be made </span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to support the healing and soulful ministry of</span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wisdom House <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where Alla Bozarth is resident priest </span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">b</span>y sending a check to</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">43222 SE Tapp Rd.</span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sandy<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, OR 97055</span></b> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Photo credits:</b> All photos <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that don't show Alla were taken by Alla, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a few except<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ions as labeled, </span></span> except for the stained glass wind<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ows at Reims and elsewhere, including the stonework window at Amiens</span>, w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hich I found on the Internet and give attribution where it was provided</span>.</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phot<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ographs of C<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">annon Beach and Hay<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stack Rock</span></span> that include me were taken b<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y Robin Carey (looking up <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in lac<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y shadows in sunshine)</span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and</span> John Jarman (<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in front of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hay<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stack Rock in winter)</span></span></span>, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the picture of me dancing in snow in the forest w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as taken by John Jarman, </span>photographs of me as a child were taken by my mother, and the photograph of me in a red dancing dress with the Matisse "Harmony in Red" poster was taken by a visitor, perhaps a neighbor. Photos of the chapel were taken by member<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of the congre<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gation. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pictures of</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> the Philadelphia Ordinations 25th anniversary at the Church of the Advocate were taken by Carolyn Prescott. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Photos of me at the Hermitage Museum with the original Matisse <span style="font-size: small;">painting,"Harmony</span> in Red," were taken by Julia Barkley, and the picture of Julia and me at the Grand Hotel Europyskaya in St. Petersburg were taken by the concierge. We had come for our one fine meal of the week in the dining room. We were not overnight guests, but we felt quite at home and the dinner was splendid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Picture c</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ontent credits:</b> </span></span>The dahlias are from the garden of Julie Stephens and Butch Hattenberg,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>dear friends who live down the road. The rose bower, horse, goat and cows<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>live in my neighbors' pastures and yards across Coalman Road, shown with<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>mama and papa trees flanking the paved hard way. The apple tree is on my<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>southern neighbors Melody and Don Delay's side of the long fence. The foxglove,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Turk's cap lilies, silk mimosa tree, black walnut tree, braided sunset trees,<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Pristine,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Heirloom</i> (the lavender/mauve rose) and <i>Fascination</i> (the coral/magenta rose) live<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>with me. The pear tree is loaded with pears too high for me to reach, but they<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>are beginning to fall on the ground to be picked up. They are juicy and delicious,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>fresh or in compote simmered with orange juice, cinnamon, cranberries and raisins<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>or currants. The purple Italian plums and Gravenstein apples are from my dwarf<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>fruit tree orchard also. The dwarf trees have not been pruned in ten years and are<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>turning into gnarly old giants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Sunrise over trees is what I see before I go to bed sometimes, from my kitchen window<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and veranda looking east toward the Cascade Mountains. Sunset over Mt. Hood used<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>to be the view from the top of the hill just off the highway. I was lucky to be able to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>spend many beautiful twilight evenings there before developers ruined the immediate<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The dolphins do not live in my backyard, but were found on the Internet image gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">These meditation posts in poetry, stories and pictures began on All Saints and All Souls<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Days last year, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">201<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1</span>,</span> and have come full circle to the Feast of All Angels, The Holy Guardian<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Angels, and today, St. Francis of Assisi. The Cycle of the Year is nearly complete . . . </span></div>
Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-63282053589648364992012-05-05T19:32:00.012-07:002023-04-13T15:15:08.735-07:00The Seasons of Resurrection, Reconciliation and Spirit Aflame<div style="text-align: center;">
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font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Where I Live</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">there is always</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">so much Life,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">including death,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">the dynamic</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">which transforms</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">one generation</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">into the next</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">ten thousand,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">perhaps more—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">for always</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">what we call death</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">is More Life in forms</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">we do not yet like</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">or recognize or</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">understand,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">forms which bring</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">tears in the memory</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">of what they were before</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">when we loved them,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">and we want them back</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">without the suffering,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">but their best and happiest</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">selves—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the cherished and beautiful<br />soulmate, non-human animal,<br />mother, sister, friend, brother, father,<br />grandparents, son, daughter, homes and other<br />places we’ve loved and loved in, all our beloved,<br />including the trees that grew up with us<br />and then continued to raise up our spirits<br />and teach us ceaselessly each year<br />about death and what it’s for<br />and how it works, and always<br />the again and again miracle<br />of resurrection, until finally</span></span><br /><span><br /></span><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like Christ they too<br />ascend out of sight<br />and back into God,<br />leaving all they can<br />of themselves in old treasures</span></span><br /><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and new forms, sometimes visible </span></span><br /><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>or audible, and sometimes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br /><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">demanding faith</span></span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">in the unheard and unseen</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">and especially the unknowable</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">forms they are becoming—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">and faith in our future selves</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">also, in God~</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">When the world in you</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">shivers for a moment,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">it is them, those you thought</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">you had lost, still with you,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">moving on through you,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">loving you and loving through you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Then, even through tears, breathe joyfully.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Keep loving them. As you move through</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">your own duties and pleasures and deeply</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">into your days, invite them to joy,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">where they are in the Eternal Now</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">which includes you also,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">in the ephemeral now.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">They can be everywhere they want at the same time</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">because for them, time is no longer an issue.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Don’t be shy. You won’t be keeping them earthbound.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">They know how to be and do more than we can imagine,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">in and out of many dimensions and places, and with</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14pt;">many loved ones at once, for example. Marvel. Trust.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Praise them.</span></span><br /><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alla Renée Bozarth</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span>Work in progress, copyright 2017</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
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<span><span>as every breath we take in and give out changes the world,</span></span><br />
<span><span>and everything and everyone we learn to love changes our destinies--</span></span><br />
<span><span>for life is change, constant goodbye and hello, constant closing</span></span><br />
<span><span>and opening of doors and minds and eyes, constant desire</span></span><br />
<span><span>and constant learning, constant rest and constant awakening,</span></span><br />
<span><span>alternately and overlapping. And for this, thank God. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Links to Alla's single topic blogs: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081">www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081</a></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>Today is Cinco de Mayo and the First Saturday of May, still during Eastertide. I have been thinking about this entry since Easter Sunday, and today simply went searching for poems with themes of Resurrection, and other words came up consistently: salvation, redemption, rebirth. Easter Mysteries. I couldn't find poems about the Great Event in the Garden, but rather the Event of Resurrection was everywhere throughout the poems, in all their collections, intimately and inextricably woven into living and the commonplace experiences of our daily lives.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>From those resurrection poems, some below are in still unpublished collections: the first series below in <b>Quartet</b> and the next series in <b>Love's Alchemy</b>. Then one each from<b> </b><b>Purgatory Papers</b> and <b>My Blessed </b><b>Misfortunes</b>. There are two from <b>Diamonds in a Stony Field, </b>three from <b>The Frequencies of Sound</b> and two plus all the poems in the Birthday section from<b> The Frequency of Light</b>. There is one each from the published books, <b>Moving to the Edge </b><b>of the World</b>,<b> Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello</b> and<b> This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span><span>The birth of a human child shines of Easter in <b>The Frequency of Light</b> along with the miraculous beauty of ocean gardens. Images of the flowers, butterflies and tree are from my garden, except for the picture taken at the Chinese Gardens in downtown Portland, the picture I took of the deep burgundy lily which was a gift from Pat and Val Herman when they came to visit, and the two images of an exquisite mauve and gold pearl iris which grows in the garden of my garden-gifted friends Julie Stephens and Butch Hattenburg who live nearby. Julie brought it to me in a glorious bundle with others for a birthday gift a few years ago.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>Since May is also the month of my birthday, there is a birthday section near the end of this entry. To find it, scroll down past the snowbears to the rose pictures. The third rose, entirely pink, is captioned "Happy Birthday Every Day!" That's where you'll find poems for a natal feast. After them, there are images of more colorful shells and living sea creatures, with an end poem about the First Apostle, Mary Magdalene, and the miraculous occurrence in Rome during her telling of the resurrection story from her eye witness experience. </span></span><br />
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<span><span>In the Easter Bear Gallery, the Alaskan grizzly bear and polar Easter bear and sea creature images are from the Internet. The Maya Angelou<i> Precious Jewel </i>card is from my birthday last May 15, my friends the beautiful writers Christin Lore Weber's and John Richard Sack's Wisdom House Wedding Day.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>Shell art is also from the Internet, by Nature and some decorated by human color play. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>In my personal symbolism, the chambered nautilus has always represented the journey of the soul slowed into its own incarnate form on its spiral path through space, time and matter. It begins as a tiny animal, assigned right away with the work of building its own life structure. It uses the generic template for its species and adds its own history and character as it goes. Each new chamber must be larger than the one before as the animal grows out of its containers one by one.</span></span><br /></span>
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<span><span>Studying the shell I am trying to figure out how this works. Internet resources don't help with this anatomical structure and growth question. Oh, for a mollusk expert to consult! Presumably, there is no wall in front of it, but as things get tight and it feels the need, it squeezes itself forward and simultaneously builds new walls behind it and thus keeps growing without becoming dangerously cramped. When it encounters external physical obstacles or gets into fights, scar tissue makes it stronger.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>It creates and carries with it a delicate soft tissue tube called a siphuncle, a hollow cord that stays connected through all the walls to the core place of origin. Crudely guessing nautilus architectural engineering, it seems to me that when the nautilus senses the need to start a new section it moves forward, leaving a perfectly calculated slightly larger air space behind between its soft body and the rear wall, and first thing, it creates a protective shell skin for the end of its siphuncle. Then it begins to fill in the curving line around it to accommodate its new larger self, building a larger seat to sit on. You can see the small portion of tube-shaped shell protruding from the back of the rear wall of each new chamber. It pumps air through the hollow soft tissue cord, and the pumping gives it momentum to move up or down according to choice and need~ from the dark depths of the ocean floor to sunlight shining through the surface of the sea.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>As it matures, its non-suction tentacles function more as sensors than legs, helping the nautilus to swim or walk laterally wherever it wants or needs to go. The large open-walled end chamber houses its long adult life in free movement. It is a primitive and odd looking animal, valiant, artistic and admirable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>As it graduates from all its previous smaller chambers, it carries its original siphuncle with it, going all the way back through its entire life journey to the chamber of its birth, and is thus empowered to move in directions of choice by every part of its whole history, as air {"Ruach" in Hebrew, also translated as Spirit} is pumped in and out through its length according to need. Thus it becomes a teacher for us. Every place we've been, every person we've been, has brought us to where we are now, and where we will be as we continue through time, all the way into the invisible realms of light, which already infuse and are also beyond space, time and matter.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>The mysteries of death and resurrection encompass all life, all creation. Nature does it all. As human beings observe and realize this, we create and follow religious traditions which apply the lessons of Nature to the journey of the embodied soul through time. Our religious traditions celebrate and bless the rhythms, tell sacred stories to help us understand our place in them, and create special feasts to help us align ourselves with them, and so grow into our best and true selves.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Death and Resurrection</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">are not sequential.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You have to die</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to be reborn.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And you have to</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">times a second.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The rest, we never</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It takes more</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to learn the dance.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Death and resurrection</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">are each mother and child,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and also equal lovers</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">moving in each other’s arms.</span></div></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They merely keep
changing</span></span></div>
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alternate</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">who leads. They never</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">they always win the
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />
<i> Alla
Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Book One: Swinging Over the Edge of the World </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b> ~ Quartet</b> copyright 2012 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EKfmBS_iqrM/T6XrNl6I3ZI/AAAAAAAABDs/7t6vxBrumJA/s1600/IMG_2480.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EKfmBS_iqrM/T6XrNl6I3ZI/AAAAAAAABDs/7t6vxBrumJA/s320/IMG_2480.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
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<b></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>
</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Easter is a Process </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Resurrection is
not an unattached event</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but fruit within
the dying seed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the dream within the dying flower. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Death means dramatic loss, but it is not Life's opposite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It is stillness, followed by a leap toward unimaginable new life. </span><span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Even now, this is Christ
alive,<span><span> Eastering in our lives.</span></span></span><br />
<span><br />
<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span><br />
<b><span>Book Three: The Wild Gardens of
God </span></b><br />
<b><span>
~ Quartet</span></b><i><span> </span></i><span>copyright 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A Mixed Bouquet from the Wild</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Child of the brambles,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a blooming weed or a lacey flower,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a wild iris or rose hidden among the thorns, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">she rose in her power, shining,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">she filled the air with her story</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of resurrection bloom—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">her compassion borne</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the leaf and the thorn.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Roots watered by Grace</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">grew strong. And out
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">hiding in a green corner</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the wild gardens of God,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">emerged a life in living color.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here, slowly unfolding</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to match the sunset sky</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">come fully alive</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">into view,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">coral gypsy dancer</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in her purple hues—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the unseen core of a soul.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A mixed bouquet</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of pain, courage and bliss,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>daughters of this humble</span></span><br />
<span><span>dahlia, I offer to you~</span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span><span><b> Book Three: The Wild Gardens of God </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><b> ~ Quartet</b><i> </i>copyright 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Mary Magdalene, sculpture by Bruce Wolfe</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
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<span><span><b>From Mourning into Morning</b></span></span><br />
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<span><span>Just when stark emptiness overtakes us,</span></span><br />
<span><span>no sign left of the Beloved<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4984">—</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4877"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4878"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4877"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4878">through our tears</span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4877"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4878">w</span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4877"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4878">hen we least expect it,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4877"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4878">the Impossible appears, </span></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span><span>calls us softly by name,</span></span><br />
<span><span>gives us work to do,</span></span><br />
<span><span>demands we do our best.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>Some call this recovery.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Some call it an Angel's kiss.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Some say it is miraculous.</span></span><br />
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<span><span>I call it Easter Morning,</span></span><br />
<span><span>deeper and brighter than</span></span><br />
<span><span>the best surprise<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4984">—</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4984">Christ is risen</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488663533095_4984">in our lives!</span></span></span><br />
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Alla Renée Bozarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b><span><span> </span></span><br />
<span><span>Copyright 2017</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sculptures of the Risen Christ and Mary Magdalene</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>by Bruce Wolfe, Mission Santa Barbara. </span></span>
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another aspect of the Easter Story~</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Touch Me</span></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Don’t ask me to have faith.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve <span style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><a style="animation-name: none; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; transition-property: none;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>had it with faith.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve had enough of hints</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and clues, partial promises,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">then betrayal. Abandonment.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faith! You lie! I say.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Wait. Wait—”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Don’t touch me! I said.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Please, just breathe.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What good is breath!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m asking you—</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why breathe?</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It brings more betrayal!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Poisons in the air!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ego games everywhere!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are paid killers in the shadows,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">waiting to attack us, and the government</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">arms the ignorant and the insane</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with its worst weapons.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one is trustworthy!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one, I say!”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Breathe. Just breathe.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Breathe in~</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Breathe out~</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And again— </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, wait a bit, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and keep breathing.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Come and eat with us, Tom.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We’ve missed you. We need you. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Come and help us to get through this. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We must find our way, and without our mentor, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">we need each other more than ever.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You need me? </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you need my despair?</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m so tired.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So tired of being angry</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and afraid. I could use</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">some good soup and bread.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I won’t be convinced.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Don’t anyone talk to me</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">or try to convince me</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that we can survive this</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hideous nightmare.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Tom, we need you.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We’re almost at the top of the stairs now. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The door is right here. Let’s just go in.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keep breathing. Look, we’ll lock the doors </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">behind us. No one can get in to hurt us.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They went inside and sat down at the table, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">greeted with nods and sad smiles from the others.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then— without using the door,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">suddenly, Jesus was with them,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the impossible, as real and inexplicable</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as a bolt of lightning in a locked room!</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“My God! My God! </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had no breath and now</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am full of your spirit in this vision!”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Not a vision, Thomas, and no deception. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am not a ghost. I am real. I am here.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Don’t ask for explanations. Dear Doubter,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">dear Friend, here, put your hand on my wounds.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Feel the dried blood, the nail holes. This is real.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All through the room, eye to eye, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">they saw one another as God sees them. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They believed in each other again.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And between the doubter and the impossible—</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the one who had cried out, “My God, My God, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why have you forsaken me?” and the one</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">who had lost himself in grief— all was healed, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in an instant, past understanding.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You must have heard me, Rabbi.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You must have heard the awful things</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I thought and said.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I heard you. I was inside your heart and head.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I blessed your emptiness, knowing it as I had known </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">my own, and knowing that it would soon be filled with calm </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and wonder again. And I am here, with you and our dear friends. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We’re all together again. Sit down with me. Break bread with me. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Never leave me again, whether or not you see me. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I will never leave you. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I can only stay for a little while before I go on </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to fulfill the destiny we all share, to be born, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to live and learn and love, then to die </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from sight, in order to move on into</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">larger life and more wonders, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">beyond all knowing here.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“But I am still yours, and will still be alive in all of you, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when you love and help each other. See me in the eyes </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of everyone who loves or needs love, and wherever </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">your kindness and passion for justice are needed.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I’ll be with you forever.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am with you, forever.” </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alla Renée Bozarth</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From the unpublished book, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Purgatory Papers ©2017.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirDZm0lYX-aKht_wxSkznAQsuMyr8BH_FvAPUIjVrEudd-Gb3B5CUr44qxaTpqZ8tor6KXT0dxsNU5z0iGMzMuDq-kTE7Cstsv4lL6A-V8bajD58F3p5Sf5AhZjowYV_ktKTj2bHxXQJmz-odYg4xzdqtAz7uP6cHauVavLJXLPPe1ulzKg7b34CDy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirDZm0lYX-aKht_wxSkznAQsuMyr8BH_FvAPUIjVrEudd-Gb3B5CUr44qxaTpqZ8tor6KXT0dxsNU5z0iGMzMuDq-kTE7Cstsv4lL6A-V8bajD58F3p5Sf5AhZjowYV_ktKTj2bHxXQJmz-odYg4xzdqtAz7uP6cHauVavLJXLPPe1ulzKg7b34CDy" width="285" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="uu-artwork-description" style="color: #333333; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">Painting by Giovanni Serodine, 17th c. 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<span><span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Harley’s Gift</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">In the body of a
horse</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">there is a bone</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">at the bottom of the
foot</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">called the coffin
bone.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">It becomes painful
and</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">disfiguring to the
spirit</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of the horse if it is
injured</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and then too close to
the sole.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">From inability to
run,</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the horse may die.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Harley, my neighbor’s</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">young chocolate brown
horse,</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">was so threatened and
afflicted.</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Surgery corrected his
problem,</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">opening his life to
the future</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">by giving him more
space</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">between the coffin
and his sole.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">My old and well-run
body is a lovely </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and living coffin to
its youth.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<br />
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">As life opens the
future to me,</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span>
<br />
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">something will be
seared away</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span>
<br />
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and severed— a sense,
perhaps,</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span>
<br />
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of being myself as
I’ve known me</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span>
<br />
</span><div class="Standard">
<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">all my life. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">But for that greater distance
</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">between the coffin
and my soul,</span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">all the life that’s
left will come </span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">upon me like a
springtime torrent </span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">in the abundance of
its flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My Blessed
Misfortunes</b> © 2014</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Human Butterfly
Effect </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span><span> </span></span></span></b><span><span><i>Everything
depends on sensitivity to initial conditions.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span><br />
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> </i>A first principle of Chaos
Theory.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Monday morning and</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the melancholy masses</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">begin their trudge,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">worming down</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the highways and train tracks</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or hitting the tasks</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">immediate to home,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">family or farm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, a butterfly</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">moves its wings</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in Hong Kong</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and a rainstorm begins</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the Amazon.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At the same time,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a genuinely glad</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">human being</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">happiness pours— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Imagine what will happen</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to the world </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">wonderful</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">event!</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Alla Renée Bozarth</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Easter poems from other years in <i>The Frequency of Light</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>Another Chance—</b><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><b> </b> <b>the
Living Day Lights</b> </span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>Let them reconsider,</span></span><br />
<span><span>those noisy boys, those boisterous girls,</span></span><br />
<span><span>those loud, driven women and (mostly) men</span></span><br />
<span><span>in their rapacious consumption, </span></span><br />
<span><span>vagrantly, flagrantly wasting</span></span><br />
<span><span>the life force, ignoring</span></span><br />
<span><span>their own forgotten sense</span></span><br />
<span><span>of beauty, their old abandoned</span></span><br />
<span><span>need for serenity, in order to hold</span></span><br />
<span><span>the illusion of being</span></span><br />
<span><span>in charge of everything</span></span><br />
<span><span>for one more day—</span></span><br />
<span><span>one more day lost</span></span><br />
<span><span>on them forever,</span></span><br />
<span><span>missing them,</span></span><br />
<span><span>longing for their return,</span></span><br />
<span><span>and giving them</span></span><br />
<span><span>another chance, perhaps,</span></span><br />
<span><span>tomorrow—</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>When you awaken</span></span><br />
<span><span>and the day lights</span></span><br />
<span><span>freshly on your hand,</span></span><br />
<span><span>my wish for you,</span></span><br />
<span><span>and the new day</span></span><br />
<span><span>choosing you,</span></span><br />
<span><span>is a tender reception.<b> </b></span></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Let Butterflies Dream
about Me</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>One day once upon a When</span></span><br />
<span><span>I went into the forest</span></span><br />
<span><span>to gather butterflies.</span></span><br />
<span><span>All morning I searched</span></span><br />
<span><span>but they were hidden from me.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Weary, I fell asleep under a cedar tree.</span></span><br />
<span><span>When I awoke I was covered</span></span><br />
<span><span>with fairy-like things.</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span><span>I opened my eyes</span></span><br />
<span><span>and saw the world</span></span><br />
<span><span>through butterfly wings.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>Today I enter the forest</span></span><br />
<span><span>to welcome the Spring.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Among the trillium</span></span><br />
<span><span>and iris, robins sing.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Sunlight wraps me</span></span><br />
<span><span>in delicious fatigue.</span></span><br />
<span><span>I lie down in happy surrender,</span></span><br />
<span><span>hidden by tall and wild grass leaves.</span></span><br />
<span><span>I rest dreamless under</span></span><br />
<span><span>the honest, hard-working trees.</span></span><br />
<span><span>When I awake, I am</span></span><br />
<span><span>covered with wings.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><b>Lighting of the Paschal
Fire</b> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>It was the mornin<span>g</span></span></span><br />
<span><span>of Easter Eve.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Danger rode the air. </span></span><br />
<span><span>Through torrents</span></span><br />
<span><span>of battering rain</span></span><br />
<span><span>my mind was drowning</span></span><br />
<span><span>in despair.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>Evening came</span></span><br />
<span><span>with no reprieve. </span></span><br />
<span><span>Now my body showed</span></span><br />
<span><span>the marks and burns of icy hail.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>Mired in the losses</span></span><br />
<span><span>I had come to grieve,</span></span><br />
<span><span>imagination failed</span></span><br />
<span><span>past its immediate pain.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>Then a single bolt</span></span><br />
<span><span>of lightning shot up</span></span><br />
<span><span>from the ground.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Beside my foot</span></span><br />
<span><span>the paschal fire</span></span><br />
<span><span>was lit. It spread</span></span><br />
<span><span>into a luminous circle,</span></span><br />
<span><span>and above it formed</span></span><br />
<span><span>a neon night rainbow</span></span><br />
<span><span>that broke</span></span><br />
<span><span>into a many-arced sphere.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>All sound beyond thunder</span></span><br />
<span><span>stopped. Spring dew contained</span></span><br />
<span><span>that conflagrational energy</span></span><br />
<span><span>of resurrection within</span></span><br />
<span><span>its moon round source.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>But in my body it grew,</span></span><br />
<span><span>containing my rampant</span></span><br />
<span><span>heart and strayed rhythms,</span></span><br />
<span><span>an inner Sinai of fire</span></span><br />
<span><span>without destruction,</span></span><br />
<span><span>an intimate consummation</span></span><br />
<span><span>without an end.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>And in that first true light</span></span><br />
<span><span>of a dark spring night,</span></span><br />
<span><span>God was truly borne</span></span><br />
<span><span>back into my little life,</span></span><br />
<span><span>and hope was born again.<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><b>Today’s poem:</b></span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><b>Easter Bird </b> </span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>This odd and rare little bird, a Taoist, no doubt,</span></span><br />
<span><span>all patchwork white and mottled black, shall always be</span></span><br />
<span><span>remembered here as the official Easter Bird.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>It began its self-annunciation in early winter, November,
perhaps,</span></span><br />
<span><span>appearing to stroll beneath the seed platter one afternoon, then
after</span></span><br />
<span><span>the solstice when the first snowfall, in fact the only one,
seemed to deposit it</span></span><br />
<span><span>safely on the downy white blanket of ground over the
expansive backyard,</span></span><br />
<span><span>rendering the black markings on its wings in dazzling contrast
with the white</span></span><br />
<span><span>breast, face and head feathers, and those on its back beneath
the crossover fold </span></span><br />
<span><span>of dark wings~ with two black, alert gleaming eyes, bright shining
as stars</span></span><br />
<span><span>if the sky were made of snow.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>The bird looked around and said, “I’ll stay here. This shall
be my landscape,</span></span><br />
<span><span>my domain, my settlement, my home from now on, even when the
white snows </span></span><br />
<span><span>are gone,” as they were the next day.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>So now I am all pupil, learning through his eyes to see the first daffodils</span></span><br />
<span><span>bloom in three varieties, preferring as the bird does the unusual white</span></span><br />
<span><span>flower with peach center version, and then the purple iris
caressing my irises</span></span><br />
<span><span>for the first time because I am now living and seeing from
behind the lens</span></span><br />
<span><span>of this lovely little bird who owns the place alongside the
Great God.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>And when the chocolate brown horse appears</span></span><br />
<span><span>in the pasture among the blackberry brambles and knee-high
grasses,</span></span><br />
<span><span>I hop on his back and ride him so lightly he does not know I
am there,</span></span><br />
<span><span>for I ride on the wings of this bird, who now rises in the
fields as lightly</span></span><br />
<span><span>as the Risen Christ walks among flowering weeds in the
spring gardens</span></span><br />
<span><span>of Resurrection, again and again for the very first time. </span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><b>The Frequency
of Light</b> </span></span><br />
<span><span>Copyright Easter Sunday 2013.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> Lavender Leopard Rhododendron</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span> Under the Cherry Tree</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>In the </b><b>Chinese</b><b> </b><b>Gardens</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Safe in the gardens</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of awakening orchids</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ten thousand
mountains</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">meet the clouds.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Together they
conceive</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the flowing. Many waters</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fall into the lap</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of honeycombed
limestone</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from Lake Tai.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When water recites</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the names of poems</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to receptive rocks~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Earth puts on</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">her brightest smile.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even in the rain</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the moon reflects</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">its happiness</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on the face of the
lake~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even in sorrow</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">gladness seeps
through</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the wall of despair</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the truth</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the future.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Beauty calls to
wisdom</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and both are seen</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the branches of
the willow,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dancing together~~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Leaf with leaf, and</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">drawn into memory</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>on the stillness of
water.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fear is the murderer</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of desire, but love</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">its resurrection.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here, the soul
forbids</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">all fear simply</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by doing what comes</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">naturally.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here all dreams may
speak</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">their mind, all
thoughts</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">may find their
voice.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fragrance of winter
flowers,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the peony opens
herself</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in crimson
perfection</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to the careful lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>of the poet and
scholar,</span></span><br />
<span><span>and wellness
re-enters the world.</span></span><br />
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<i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> <br />
<span><span><b>Book Four: The Night Sky that Loves me </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><b> ~ Quartet </b>copyright 2012</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> Peony Magic</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> Magnolia Magic</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> Pink Pearl Rhododendron</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Quartet</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The person may be the same</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But it will always be a different person</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And the place may be the same location</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But it will always be a different place~~ </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In verbs are variations</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The rain is singing its soulful ballad— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The music is telling its quartet of stories</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In four lovely songs—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She went striding in sun up an autumn hill</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She slogged her way up the snow winter hill</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She trudged her way up through the glorious mess of a
springtime hill</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She ambled along the slow road of summer on that dear old
hill</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ashes to beauty, she danced her up and down life </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On that morning to midnight
hill~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>And the stars, the stars were as thick as upward rain</span></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />
<i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b> Book Three: The Wild Gardens of God </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b> ~ Quartet</b><i> </i>copyright 2012 </span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> <span style="font-size: medium;"> In the Midst of Death We Are in Life</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When you are
overcome,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">when your spirit is
in</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">some kind of foreign</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">despair,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">when too many deaths</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">have overwhelmed you</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">at once—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">deaths by the
thousands</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on television and</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dozens of local
deaths—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the mystery</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of deep personal
loss</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">envelops you on this</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">massive scale</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and you have lost
yourself</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in that great
collective</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">suffering—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Remember that Nature</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is larger and knows</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">how to retrieve her
own.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She will not abandon</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or forget those who
suffer</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or die today, or you
</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or anyone you love.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s Nature’s job to
put us to work,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to show us how best
to contribute,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to assure us of
resurrection.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Eventually, it’s
Nature’s job to kill us. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">God and Nature try
to do it in the right time and way.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pray for Nature to
be kind in her choices, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">pray we are saved
from pain and fear. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Once I, a human
being like yourself,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">was blessed with a
sweetgum tree</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in my garden, the High
Queen of the yard.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One day she fell in
the wind.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Her helpless body
filled the lawn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>I knelt at her side
and wept,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sobbing shamelessly
until I slept</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in her leaves and
felt them dying</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">around me. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>I tried to nurse her
saplings</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">through winter in my
warm house, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but failed.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In spring, the old
mother stump I’d left</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to nurture the
garden sprouted a new tree</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of its own, all by
itself. It grew and grew.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>After not much time,
a taller, stronger,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">more evenly rooted
and less vulnerable tree</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">now reigns in the
garden, radiant and bold against wind.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not a daughter tree,
but the same tree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>In the midst of
death we are in Life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We grow out of
ourselves.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We achieve the
becoming,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and we go on.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> Alla
Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>Book One: Swinging Over the Edge of the World </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><b> ~ Quartet</b> copyright 2012</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>The Daughter Liquidambar or Sweet Gum Tree</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemTitle">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">All Creatures Are
Essentially Holy</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
only difference </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">between
saints and </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
rest of us is</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that
they remember </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">who we
all really are.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
only difference </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">between
sages and </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
rest of us is </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that
they continue </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to know
and to grow </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">into
their true selves.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemTitle">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <b>Salvation </b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Religion</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">might</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">be</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">just
another</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">human,
merely,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">condition,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">a way of </span><span style="color: black;">closing the lid</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on God-in-a-box, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an institution
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">created
to care for</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">our
impulse toward</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">worship
and our need</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for
group validation,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a power
base for ego inflation, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">another
Petri dish</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of
human pathology,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">sadomasochism
</span><span style="color: black;">and </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">compulsive
control.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It may
be easier </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for God</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to find
a ready </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">heart
elsewhere,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in a
person’s </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">solitude</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or a
lover’s </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">embrace</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or any
place</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">where
one person </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is
serving</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">another
being</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with
realistic</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">compassion.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then
salvation </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">happens.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Between
beings </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">being
by being,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it is </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an act</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of life
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and
love</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and
renewing</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">creation.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And
whenever</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it is
received</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as
purely as</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it is
given, </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it
remains open. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is
friendship </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="color: black;">with
the Mystery.</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></span><br />
</span><span><span><span style="font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><i> </i><b> Love's Alchemy </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"> <b> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="color: black;"><b> <span style="font-size: medium;">You are a Love
Letter from God</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
letter U </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is a
circle</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that’s
been</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">stretched
open </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and has
become </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">two
arms</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">reaching</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">toward
heaven </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
receive</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
Godfire</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and to
hold it </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">through
its own </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lifetime,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sometimes</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
utter it</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">outwardly</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
others</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in
blessing, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sometimes</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to hold
it</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">within
to be </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">blessed,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">both
receiving </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and
giving</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
gift</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of
sheer</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">openness</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
sound</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the
letter U</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">begins
a Word</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from
God that says</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">acceptance
and</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">becoming:
You. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
Untold Story</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of yo<i>u</i>r so<i>u</i>l
yet to be <i>u</i>nderstood. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Receptive,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">open,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">waiting,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">reaching,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">self-po<i>u</i>ring.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">create</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
rose</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the
rising </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the
heart—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rose of
God’s Heart,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> risen among us, radiant.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You are
opened</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the
darkness, a new</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">word of
Christ </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in
resurrection, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an
expectant embrace, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">loving
and living </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
Question—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="color: black;"> You.</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></span><br />
</span><span><span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><b> Love's Alchemy </b></span><i style="font-size: medium;"><br /></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">An Invitation to
Resurrection</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Consider</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
undercurrent.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Keep
cutting through</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the
overt and manifest, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fear-based
behavior of mind,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and
reach every time</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for the
heart— if the heart</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is as
informed and wise</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as the
truly wise mind.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Listen
well </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
both.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><span style="color: black;">If mind
whispers,</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Danger!”
Watch out.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Observe.
Discern before</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">you
decide. Mind may speak truth,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or mind
may misguide you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Likewise,
the heart.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span><span style="color: black;">You may
need</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
choose your own life</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">over a
hoped-for bond.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you
have been</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">invited
to attend</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Easter
and you had </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">other
plans,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">consider
the question.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.5in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Are you
not yet ready </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="color: black;">for
resurrection?</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><i> </i><b> Love's Alchemy </b><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Love’s Mysteries</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You
love </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You
mourn </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You
move on</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Birth </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Death </span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rebirth</span></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="PoemText" style="margin-left: 2.75in;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="color: black;"> Love is equal to Life</span></span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></span><br />
</span><span><span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><b> Love's Alchemy </b></span><i style="font-size: medium;"><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Tender Loving Detachment</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Detachment</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">is gentle</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">openness</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">to the Unknowability </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">of Reality</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">it is a kind</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">openness</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">to the Unknowability </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">of Everything</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">a receptive</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">to the Unknowability </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">of Everyone</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">to the Unknowability </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">of God</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">and it is</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">pure love</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">for all</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Noon Revelation</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">I am being haunted</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">by a hummingbird, a honeybee,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">insistently promising me</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">that the future holds happiness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">despite my defensive resistance</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">to redemption. I am being blessed</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">by a fast tango of two white butterflies </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">acting out the mystery of resurrection </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and my inescapable place in it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">The pink feather flowers of the tree </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">turn brown and fall, fragile, in my lap.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">They become powder in my hands.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">I sprinkle them like fairy food </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">on the morning’s bluegreen grass </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and they disappear. My morning </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">awareness is this dry brown flowerdust. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Fresh flowers bloom into more pink feathers</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">on the bowers of God’s silky green mimosa tree.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">I prepare dried brown camellia leaves for afternoon tea.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dawn darkness moves slowly over</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Easter eggs, hiding in nests under snow~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">then hailing the day, resurrection</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and what is becomes what was</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">or will be, post-agony seeds of quiet redemption</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">or roaring thunder of transfigured pain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> <span style="font-size: medium;">Salvation Rondo</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Out here among the sweet confusions</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> of spring, overcome by scents </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> of warm dark honey, Christmas cedars</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> and hot fresh raspberry jam—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> no one right-minded could imagine</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> self-provoked guilt or shame, when Nature</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> pours its perfumes over every creature equally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> Innocent or not, undeserved beauty </span></span><br />
<span><span> comes anyway, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> comes bountifully, and finally </span></span><br />
<span><span> even the truly guilty</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> are cleansed and saved by the sensual mercy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> of God in all living color, green </span></span><br />
<span><span> and budding forms<i> </i><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> <br />
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> and no one is exempt from Grace </span></span><br />
<span><span> or Resurrection.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Spirit of
Compassion</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spirit Sister of the Stars, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She rides the firelight body</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of Easter bear among the dimensions,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">her wound-windows open to Heaven and Earth—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She draws Divine Compassion </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the opening portal of Grace,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">backed by the Creator, the Great Mother Bear,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Whose longing loved us into being—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From the diamond center of prayer </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in creative communion She regards </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">all mortal beings in their need,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">binds all the broken-hearted </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sparks and shards of God </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that so bravely move </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">through time and space, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">bearing them Infinite Love.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> Alla
Renée Bozarth</i><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> <b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><b> </b>Copyright 2012<b> </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><b> </b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e2LZ1l3yuhU/T6Xux4vRHRI/AAAAAAAABEc/jEDAkI2tngc/s1600/IMG_1726.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e2LZ1l3yuhU/T6Xux4vRHRI/AAAAAAAABEc/jEDAkI2tngc/s320/IMG_1726.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">. . . I found this very personal story poem among </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">my searches for Easter themes and hesitated to add it</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">here, but then thought, why not? Resurrection is the most</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">personal of experiences . . . and the most real, an </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">everyday commonplace shared by all, a thing to celebrate</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">intimately right where </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">we live </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and with whom we love. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">And death shall not diminish it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Phil’s Love of Leather</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br />
<i> Alla
Renée Bozarth</i><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> from <b>The Frequencies of Sound ~ </b>Copyright 2012. </span></span></span><br />
<span><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today I went into the
archival vault of my closet and found the perfect dress</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to wear tomorrow for my
birthday party at the Black Rabbit Restaurant </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with friends, Constance and
Carol.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The sticking material placed
on the hanger by the dry cleaners had</span></span><br />
<span><span>disintegrated completely, but the dress
was perfect. Flowing black crepe </span></span><br />
<span><span>with an elegant ankle flare at the side seams
and an overlay of transparent</span></span><br />
<span><span>chiffon, pink rose clusters with
leaves. After fifteen years since last wearing, </span></span><br />
<span><span>all it needed was ironing.
Also, I pulled out the black suede pumps so elegantly</span></span><br />
<span><span>designed, an antique gold wreath at the
toe with a shiny black stone.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And what earrings? Antique
gold to integrate with the shoes?</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">No, my face needs more
brightness. The bright brass dangling sagaris!</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They dance when I move and
talk, and twirl when I laugh. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>But they need to be polished.
Brass polishing is hard. </span></span><br />
<span><span>It takes muscles and time. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span>
<span><span>While I’m at it, I’ll
polish these other brass things that have bothered me— </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A plate stand spattered with
hard water spots that have tarnished, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from boiling water being
poured nearby for coffee or tea. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And Papa’s chiming clock on
the bookcase.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Carrying the clock to the
kitchen I realize I’ve never before polished it.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I remember how the clock
maker who worked on it for a year had wanted</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to buy it and offered me a
good price, but I refused saying, “Would you sell</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a clock that had belonged to
your father and was all you had left of him?”</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Brass polishing is a
meditative job. I see now why altar guild ladies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>emphasize the spiritual
practice of polishing brass candlesticks </span></span><br />
<span><span>and Gospel stands, and with
what love they polish the wood railing and pews.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Suddenly I see my husband at
the altar of St. George’s Church, </span></span><br />
<span><span>leading worship on Easter Eve~ first, light the
Paschal Fire </span></span><br />
<span><span>in darkness at the back of the church in a brass bowl, </span></span><br />
<span><span>touching his
candle to the fire to light the paschal candle, </span></span><br />
<span><span>then beginning the long,
solemn procession up the center aisle, </span></span><br />
<span><span>leading the chant sung antiphonally,
first on low notes, then </span></span><br />
<span><span>progressively higher, “Light of Christ!” and the
congregational response </span></span><br />
<span><span>on the same notes, “Thanks be to God!” All of
the candles were lit </span></span><br />
<span><span>from the paschal fire, stopping at each pew so that
the worshipers</span></span><br />
<span><span>on the ends could step out and dip his or her wick into
the paschal candle,</span></span><br />
<span><span>then light the candle of the next person in his or
her pew and passing </span></span><br />
<span><span>the flame this way until everyone present was
holding the Light of Christ ~</span></span><br />
<span><span>Thanks be to God!</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After all the Scripture
readings had been voiced beginning with the Story</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of Creation and ending with
the Burial of Christ, everything was illuminated</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the music began, the
movement hastened, the Full Eucharist began,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the Gospel reading
brought us to the empty tomb at dawn.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All day on Holy Saturday,
after the altar had been stripped following </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the Last Supper and foot
washing service on Holy Thursday, the ladies, and </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by then, also gentlemen of
the altar guild worked hard to prepare everything—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">cleaning, polishing,
renewing, pressing hard on tarnish as I am now. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How handsome and satisfied
with life and all that was holy Phil was</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on the Holy Day of Days,
standing taller than ever at the altar </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with arms uplifted in
welcome, praise and thanksgiving. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The heavy gold, white and red
vestments hung well on his tall slender body. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He twinkled all over with the
glory of God, a man fully alive. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In those last years he wore
the purple leather jacket I’d given him</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for Christmas on high holy
days, his personal celebratory vestment,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and he wore his best black
leather dress shoes under his formal vestments </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">instead of the cowboy boots
he was known for. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I remember how lovingly Phil
would undertake his own polishing ritual, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">bringing out the multitude of leather
boots and shoes of all sorts from </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the floor of his double closet, how he
caressed and smelled the leather </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">before he’d begin to work on each pair, how
excited he was to go into </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a leather store and stand at the door, close his eyes
and inhale appreciatively </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">before going in to browse.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After over a quarter century
of being without him, I do these small rituals</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3of thankful reverence, and
delight in the sensual beauties of creation for him,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">aware with him of the life
exchange between creatures, wood that is the body </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of trees, the cows and other
animals whose lovely skin continues to cover</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the bodies of human animals
after the original owner’s spirit has left its bones.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is Divine Home
Economics: nothing is wasted.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I’ve kept Phil’s purple
jacket. It is a muted, masculine color, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">elegantly cut as everything
he chose and he himself was.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From time to time, I open the
closet, stroke the leather arms, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lay my chin against its soft
cool skin and inhale it with thanks </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for the animal who once made
and lived in it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>and for the man who later
wore it.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Recently, a friend asked me
playfully, “How’d you get to be so adorable?”</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I answered her quite
seriously, “I married Phil. He rubbed off on me,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and I know I rubbed off
positively on him somehow as well, because </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">he said so. . . . But from
where I live, he gave me more than I could ever give.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If I’m adorable, it’s because
he helped me become a real person.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“He gave me the big push for
all the years of our life together</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that turned me into my best
self. Everyday, Phil is right here. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hug me, there’s a big angel
man spirit hugging you back, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>right along with the small me
that you feel and see.</span></span><br />
<span><span>Love makes everyone
adorable.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">unlike your boreal amber-eyed </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">kin, your blue-fire gaze </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is boundless. You come from </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">indigo ice caverns below sound.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Bear’s Twilight Prayer</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Just now, among the
nuthatches</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and crows, I went
out to pray.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Among the
wildflowers with small deer</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and their mothers I
prayed.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With injured trees
and moles</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and gray rabbits I
prayed.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With purple kale and
white cosmos</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">holding still under
first stars</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the sapphire sky
I prayed.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With red leaves of
liquid amber</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the fallen
leaves of golden walnut</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I prayed. With the beautiful corpses</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of summer I
prayed. With waking coyote</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and motors of cars
returning</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">weary humans to
their evening homes</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I prayed. With Great Mystery I yearned</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for their
well-being, I yearned</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for their happiness.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An old bear crying
in the wilderness,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">furry prophet manged
among the wildflowers,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">bare patches of pink
skin shining golden</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the gloaming
light, blending in</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with the last brave
roses in bud,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and thorny as their
tired brown branches.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here I kneel and
roll and sleep.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And breathing in the
crisp air</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of crimson autumn, I
pray for Creation.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I pray for
Creator. And my prayer</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is naming Them by my
own secret names</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of gratefulness. My prayer is holding their own </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">true sacred names in
silent empty space.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My prayer is
enjoying their company.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My prayer is being
glad to be one of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><i> </i><i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> <br />
<span><span><b>Book Four: The Night Sky that Loves me </b></span></span><br />
<span><span><b>~ Quartet </b>copyright 2012</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b>Easter Bear in Fields of Purple</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In the Name of the Bee & the Bear & the
Butterfly</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the beginning,
Bee.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bee of fertility,
blessing of flowers,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">high priest of
pollination.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bee of My Lady’s
dreaming,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dressing her eyes,
ears, lips, and feet</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with golden honey,
feeding her</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with goddess food for
holy milking.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bee, Bee, lighting on
her lotus hands,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">kissing her lovely
toes with your silken lashes, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">leaving streaks of
bronze and gold,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">powder on your feet
from her blue mantle.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bee, beloved pet,
Angel Bee, beckoner, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">messenger, bestower,
wonder</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the Mother of God.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">O Bee, holy Bee:</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">be with us and feed
us </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with high-potent
sweetness </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and when we grow dead
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sting us alive.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the beginning
also, the Bear.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Great Mother Bear
birthing us </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in your own image,
you teach us </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the bearness of life,
unbearable </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">breathtaking bearness
of you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We, in your likeness,
learn to survive, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">learn to suckle in
your furry bosom, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">learn to choose
within the forest </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">food to make us grow,
growling and humming, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">into the fullness of
your stature; </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">learn to labor hard,
to fight when needed, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to care for and be
cared for, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to rest deep and play
well </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with you and one
another — </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> we your children, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> we your fierce and foolish </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> tender cubs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bear, Bear, you give
us teeth and claws </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and make us strong
with your vigor, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">watch over us
desiring our self-sufficiency </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in healthy measure~</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Bear, I lose my way~</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Bear, I fall entangled~</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Bear, I feel afraid~ </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Food you give me of
your self, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">milk of your
honey-feeding body, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">berries colored of
your blood. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not only do I drink
and chew — </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Often, with the teeth
you gave me,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> I bite you, God.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">O Bear, Great Bear,
make us your pride and joy.</span></i><a href="http://www.sodahead.com/entertainment/t-boz-of-tlc-files-for-bankruptcy-which-broke-celeb-dug-the-deepest-financial-hole/question-2310529/" style="font-size: medium;"><img height="315" id="il_fi" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUNHcEnZq0zErKdTBdKmjJ6PL4n8kR6IDERuPmfe6P257UpT6F75LMolIH-mE23mKj3jfXsilo-whbTiSbXXJc_If0D8eRd4hgZQPXdUEjMHwZKSqCV-ASJTjkbq_KbQZ_j6YZz3rkw-o/s640/polar-bear-cub_917.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="468" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And of the Butterfly.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Born of life’s ending,
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">promised from the
beginning.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All the age-old
cocooning, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">all the enduring of
unendurable happenings, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">through long
beginnings and endless middle </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of our worm-shaped
selves: </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the unborn butterfly
clinging to the bark, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an ugly small worm of
a thing made tight, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">having no way of
knowing, no way of telling </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the tree or sky
hope of any change to come.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But by simply being</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a good and faithful
worm </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">allowing itself to
die </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">surprise! breaks
forth </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the strangest bird </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from its soft,
odd-shaped egg, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from graygreen into
gold,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">orange, yellow, blue,
vermilion, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">amazing lightness and
freedom </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with singing wings
most Christly, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">slipping so lightly
and so largely </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">into the membrane of
our souls </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">through crevices only
God can know, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">filling all the soft
cocoon stretching </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">spaces of our human
hearts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Butterfly, brave
Butterfly,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">down the wormlike
days </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of all our
discouragement, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">give us the courage
to open, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to turn into the
unimaginable, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">take color, unfold,
make music and fly! </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black;">Life is
Goodbye/Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss</span></b><span style="color: black;">,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">revised edition, Hazelden 1988, and <b>This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black;">Prayers from
the Heart~<i> </i></span></b><span style="color: black;">iUniverse
2004.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7i9YuO2598/T6XhjDRSeKI/AAAAAAAABCA/9UZiBz2CaIs/s1600/IMG_0018.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7i9YuO2598/T6XhjDRSeKI/AAAAAAAABCA/9UZiBz2CaIs/s320/IMG_0018.JPG" width="320" /></a> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Novel Means Something New</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Humanity lives in its words.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A human being loves to
vocalize,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">enjoys the sound of voices,
deep, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">rich, melodic, lyrical voices
through which</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the soul is heard, and the
clear, complex or muddled</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">mind also.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Having created a Divine
Person in our own image,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">we long mostly to hear the
voice of God, to be told</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">we are loved, to be named and
called by name.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The most beautiful sound to
any human being</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is his or her name spoken by
a beloved other’s cherishing voice.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By such a voice, even an
unlovely name becomes beautiful.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the garden of
resurrection, Mary, whose name means Bitter,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">was roused from the sounds of
her weeping only when </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">she heard the Beloved
speaking her name.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She heard herself made sweet
by his Word, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and her worlds were reborn.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even a silent person depends
on words for thinking.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Every poet knows the power of
the Word to create a world.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Every mystic senses being a
character brought to life, made of many </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">stories in a dramatic novel authored
by God with the single Word, BE . . .</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the reverberating Word
through which be becomes a dynamic </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">BECOMING, complex, many-dimensioned,
conflicting, contradicting~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the whole paradox of reality,
seen and unseen, loved and unloved,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">given its chance to make
something astonishing out of itself,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as astonishing as kindness in
a crazy, frightened world. And so,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Christ sang down heaven and gave us <br />the sound of resurrection.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Copyright
2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kl6WH_mGDmw/T6Zq_biSvuI/AAAAAAAABHE/wT-MAlHprE0/s1600/True+Summer+003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kl6WH_mGDmw/T6Zq_biSvuI/AAAAAAAABHE/wT-MAlHprE0/s320/True+Summer+003.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For a Father at the
Door of New Life</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b><i>for Tom, Lea and Winter Rose</i></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The door of Life swung wide</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and beyond it the darkness quivered,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but did not call your name.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Instead, from Eternity, a gift came</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">forth into your lives . . . </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the heart of your winter</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an early Easter shimmered,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and Dawn brought forth</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the depths of Night a child,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the daughter of you, flower of Love</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and Faith and Promised Resurrection, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to raise your spirits to high heaven—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the heart of winter, a rose was born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>In the heart of you, All Springtime bloomed.</span></span><br />
<span><span><br />
<i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Frequencies of Light</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Copyright
2012</span><b style="font-size: medium;"> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83Y8jnuDn9A/T6Xo44zRvCI/AAAAAAAABDU/jZtVpftf3jI/s1600/Pink+Pormise+Gives+Beauty+021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83Y8jnuDn9A/T6Xo44zRvCI/AAAAAAAABDU/jZtVpftf3jI/s320/Pink+Pormise+Gives+Beauty+021.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> <b>Happy Birthday Every Day!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span>I was born on May 15, a Thursday and the Feast of the Ascension, which is</span></span><br />
<span><span>a moveable feast 40 days after the Feast of the Resurrection and ten days before the Feast of Pentecost. I learned from my mother, who was born in 1909 under the Julian Calendar in Russia, that one should take full advantage of an opportunity to celebrate one's birthday as often as possible. Mama celebrated both her Gregorian Calendar birthday and her Julian Calendar birthday thirteen days later. I celebrate May 15 on whatever day it falls, and also my Ascension Day birthday. Of course, on years when they coincide, I only celebrate once, but then I keep the whole natal season going for the full nine months which it took to make me, with a three month fast at the end to work up a good appetite for the next round of celebration.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <b>Birth is a Movable Feast</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“White is the worst,”</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">said the midwife.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Blue and purple are bad</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but white means a long time</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">without oxygen.”</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was taken up by alien hands</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on Ascension Day, May 15, 1947:</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was denied the long descent</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">down the birth canal, the first</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">necessary transit.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Picked like an onion</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">coiled in the womb</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">at a time not mine.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">No cry. No natural struggle</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to be born.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I believe I should have liked</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to sleep a bit longer and would</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">have leapt up singing</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">later in the day.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So. This primal loss,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the grief of a lifetime.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The quest: to be born.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Again and again I struggle</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to finish the fear, to swim</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">into the future, to remember</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">how it’s supposed to be done.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Give me my birthright!</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Every day is a happy birthday,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">deathday,
something-new-to-discover</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">day. Don’t do it for me!</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s my fight, my rite.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In poems, in love, in work:</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I will be midwife and mother,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">will be the beloved other,
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">all life in one swallow,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the full blast of delight</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in at last achieving delivery.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it’s never too late to be born.</span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black;"><i> <span style="font-size: medium;">At sixty among the roses and thorns</span></i></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span><span><b><span style="color: black;">A Perfect Day</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Look— it’s a perfect day!</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A day that puts a soft smile on
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that refuses to go away through
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a smile that tells others you are
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of a beautiful secret, and it is
no secret, but the day. . . .</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A day to inhale down to your toes,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">watch the play of light, how the
leaves</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">all dance with their shadows on
the grass,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">how your long body stretches ahead
of you</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as you walk on the road.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Open all the windows of your
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the house of your body, the house
of your soul.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let in the extraordinary air, its
clean scent,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the smells of cut grass, the light
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and evening and all the between,
the music</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of birds and other animals
chattering</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in their own languages, everyone
speaking</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in their own special tongues
praise for the day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let your houses absorb these
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">make them part of their walls, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">so that all through summer, all
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the walls will release the scent
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the light and colors of this
perfect day</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and give them to you all over
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">See that your wisdom keeps up
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Like them, it defies
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Better to have it throughout.
Strive, fight, sleep for it,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">be lazy and an outlaw for it,
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for age is no marker of
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Years aside, how old are you
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of word or deed of your whole life, and you do it so
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to have your happy birthday in heaven.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You will be giving heaven a chance</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It might rain or snow on your birthday.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Someone special, even you, could forget your birthday. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is a miracle</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is a blessing</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is a gift</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is a Sacred Trust</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is a responsibility</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is something to celebrate and share</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is fragile</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is so, so fragile</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it is temporary</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That it lasts only a lifetime</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That a lifetime is for having the time of your life</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That a lifetime is always over in a second</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Therefore— just to make sure,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">keep your birthday for a season.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Have a glorious long birthfeast</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in which to remember these things</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">consistently and to live by them</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">passionately and every day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Celebrate with the world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You do not have to tell the world</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">why you are celebrating.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Just celebrate, and let the world</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">celebrate itself as well, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by catching the stardust gold</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the comet's tail of your birth. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You catch the gold of others also,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and they will not understand but know</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">their birthday has happened all over again</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">any day of the year that you come around.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I used to begin my birth feast celebration</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the night before, like Christmas Eve or Passover.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then I kept a liturgical octave, again like Passover,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for those who couldn't be with me </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on the day itself and who were missed. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This wasn't long enough for many of my loved ones.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now I stretch it out until the last gift has come,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">counting on the best procrastinator </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to extend my birth season to nine months, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the time it took to hatch me, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with a three month fast my last </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ceremonial gift of the year,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">giving me time to work up a righteous hunger</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="color: black;">before my next birth feast season begins.</span></span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tC8svqQDLgs/T7M2MULmIxI/AAAAAAAABPM/U0TMQ2L_Yuk/s1600/Alla%27s+65th+Birthday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tC8svqQDLgs/T7M2MULmIxI/AAAAAAAABPM/U0TMQ2L_Yuk/s320/Alla's+65th+Birthday.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">On my 65th birthday . . . I'm learning</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span><span><b><span style="color: black;">How to Grow Old</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Live it up now.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For heaven's sake,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">be yourself.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Practice self-care
shamelessly, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and at the same time</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">increase in your reverence </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for the fragility of others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I said out loud to the Holy One,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“I don't know how to be old!</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Is it the same as being young?” </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And deep in my marrow I knew—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it is the same, for in both instances, I am who I am.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So I shall go out</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in full glory as truly</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the person I'm turning into.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And when old angels speak to me</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">they tell me—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Conserve energy</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">while giving yourself fully</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to every moment of passion
and joy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spare no affection for those
near you </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and dear to your heart.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Enjoy to the full what you
like, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and love to the full all you
love.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Don't let yourself wash out or dry out or fade. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Array yourself as one on the verge of true heaven,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in living color and true elegance,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and lift the spirit of the world with you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do what you love to do.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Be what you love to be.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even with limited powers, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">find secret powers to enliven you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After a stroke of lightning comes life—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">come new forms breathing out of the cosmic soup—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the stroke of luck and genius that is creation </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the stroke of luck and genius that is you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Your intelligence will help you, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">your best desires lead you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You've always been you in the same way— </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Improvise, and let it come naturally.</span></span></span></div>
<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The look—</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span><span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> or, learning to
see what the clouds see</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I don’t like</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the look</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of old.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">No getting</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">around it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nobody </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">told me how</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I would feel</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">slowly, involuntarily</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">being surrendered</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to gravity</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by the full weight</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here it is.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It looks</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">terribly </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tired.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That poor woman</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">trapped in the mirror,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a dry thing in a watery,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">changing place, staring at me</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with mild horror</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on her face,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">folding down</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">over her life</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">like an old sheet</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that wrinkles</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">comfortably</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the same places</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">no matter</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">how intensely</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">one tries</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to iron them</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“I want my body back!”</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I cry and fuss and whine</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">privately. No use.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She’s not coming home</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">anymore.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She’s moved into another</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dimension, lives in another</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">city half beneath the grass,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">bit by bit hauling parts of her
life</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">down there for her next home.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The household is pleasant,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">she says. Restful.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She hangs her pictures</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on the deep roots of trees.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Think of spring fever,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that peaceful disease.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You could enjoy it</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the sun and shade of your life,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or lie down and stretch out your
arms</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on the surface of change</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as if you were being nailed</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to a cross. </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">O Beautiful Young Person</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of thirty or forty or fifty, would
you like</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to dance with me </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the mercy of moonlight?</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These arms are open for you, for
the history </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">you have seen and made and will
see and make.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They want to bless you with the
fullness</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of all that is good from the past,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to brush the debris of your elders</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from off your shoulders and give
you a chance</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to carry your own life well, from
your head</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">down your uncrumbling spine to the
soles</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">you will raise and have raised
throughout your own time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yes, there’s enough of me left</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to raise my own astonishing bones</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from the ground of my life</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and demand my own piece of sky,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the place where the clouds part</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as I pass, touching them,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">telling them I am older </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and wiser and happier</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">than they will ever be,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">though they are newly alive</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and helping Earth beings to
thrive—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and thanking them</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for looking at me</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with such innocence,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">such welcome, such joy,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and in spite of everything</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">about the ways I look and do not
like, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">teaching me to love them, with such
love.</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Alla Renée Bozarth </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span><span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Frequency of Light</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> Copyright
2012</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> White Water </b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>White water rushes
down forcefully from high glaciers, forming treacherous streams and rivers
where many deaths occur, for even experienced and strong navigators and
swimmers wearing full torso life jackets can be capsized from their boats, and
once in the near-freezing and turbulent water, go under and be churned against
sharp rocks into oblivion in seconds. Only balance, experience, keen
perception, strength and skill give a person a fighting chance. </i></span></span></div>
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The shade that covers the window </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">quivers with warmth and luminosity now~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">demanding that you open your eyes and your mind.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wake up to the empty easel</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the new day~ </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A hand gives it a tug and up it flies.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The easel becomes a small window in a mural</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that extends endlessly in every direction,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">completely encircling you.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Blink and colors appear, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">shapes of mountains and rivers, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">textures of forests, open spaces of green </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dotted with wildflowers~ </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They may be buildings and faces,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">people wearing colorful skirts and shirts </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and pants and dresses, they may be gardens</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and forests and farms where hard work is done.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Stretch and all around and between them,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">even right through them, the white water current of life</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">holds it together and constantly changes the picture, pulls
you in.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Through the day and into the night, always the colors,
always the water.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You will never be able to keep up, having to attend so
carefully</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to one small part at a time, while always the water is sweeping
you along~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Relentlessly, an intense current from depths of power </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and a wave of desire from the future ~~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sweep you forward, compel you on. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pace yourself well, then. Leave room for the unknown. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Participate without being scattered. Learn the flow. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Enjoy the ride. Surrender. You do not have to be in charge. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Diamonds in a Stony Field </b>c.
2012</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span class="yiv838165827messagebody">With
three friends in Ireland this summer— Thea in the south on the Dingle Peninsula
where Europe reaches farther West than anywhere else, and Terri and Jack
visiting the magical places from Dublin on up to Yeats country under Ben Bulben
and sending pictures of flowers and ruins and stories of sacred woods— by
osmosis I've been filled with fairy dust. Here's the form of it, a mix of the
hardships of digging potatoes from rockbound earth for a living (but potato
blossoms are lovely! take a look at them in Google Images)~ and the separate
life of imagination to make it bearable, especially when desperate with the
poverty, famine and disease that brought so many of our ancestors here to
America~ with help from watery, green woodsy places, and ancient ruins for a
shade and shelter in inclement weather of landscape or soul:</span></span></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span class="yiv838165827messagebody"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gEYQpexgH2E/UaMPSSL77II/AAAAAAAADKs/sJ-yHHs9H-0/s1600/Sheppard%2527s+Dell+Falls+with+foliage.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gEYQpexgH2E/UaMPSSL77II/AAAAAAAADKs/sJ-yHHs9H-0/s640/Sheppard%2527s+Dell+Falls+with+foliage.JPG" width="480" /></a> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span class="yiv838165827messagebody" style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My Beautiful Ruins ~ </b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> and why the Irish needed fairyland,
religion and poetry</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in my ruins I would have smooth, polished petrified wood</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">at the corners of prayer benches, for lovers to brace themselves
</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to keep from falling on stone— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">there would be a potato field growing right through the
edges </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and earth lovers early in spring would harvest their
beautiful </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lavender, pink and white blossoms with their golden centers </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">poking up through the middle of night, the whole flower </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">still luminous, pulsating like starlight</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and later the fruit of the flower, hidden under earth,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">when discovered and brought up by rough but triumphant hands</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and given to heat would taste delicious, mashed with milk
and salt, with </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fennel and butter and cream, and served with rose red
tomatoes and legumes </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and thyme, with wild greens and fresh salmon or trout from
the stream—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and around my ruins there would be a stand of oak that had
been there </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for a thousand years, and behind the gnarly trees would be a
sacred wood </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that belonged to this holy place, or rather, the place
belonged to the mossy </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">forest, its waterfalls and ferns— and for music and
incense, to pilgrims’ paths</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">between turquoise lakes from where the rich living streams
were born~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and all the ruins would remain fresh as spring morning, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">even in winter and rain, full of birdsong and open to all~ </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but to humans, only once in awhile and a few at a time, between
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">there would be such empathic understanding that they scarcely
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but touch and commune with their hands and their eyes~ </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and preferably the ruins would welcome solitary poets </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">who would not desecrate the place </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with willful plans for tomorrow~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but make a drink from the sunlight and stars </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of today and tonight, forever today and tonight~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">where dreamers are welcomed but no reckless drunks are
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and now I have told you the secret of all wise souls and all
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">under sun and cloud</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><i> </i><b>My Blessed Misfortunes </b>c.
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Dancing in the Ruins</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the underground</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the mind there is</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an oracle, there is </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a honey hive, there is</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a way to consult the divine</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and also in the high places of the mind</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">there is a lovely sacred mountain, where eagles </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and angels converse above fire, earth and snow </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">reminiscent of both the temple under the earth</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the Great Mother Goddess at Malta
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<span><span>the mountain summit seer of Delphi
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Her wisdom in the gibberish of all languages </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">spoken together, defying sequence and history</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">what happens to the life of one who, from young to old age, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">frequently visits these extreme, holy above and below places—
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and they are not places of mood, but of Wisdom and Grace— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is that nothing stops the flow between Earth and Heaven, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the mind and the eternal</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the body wears down to the ruins </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of thin skin over soft flesh and bones—</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">where once it was a fresh garden, it’s become</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a salvage dump with hidden treasures that wait for those </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">who know where to look— and as it always must,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the dance goes on without interruption, from feet to
fingers, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the dance redefines and revises positions and rules and simply
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"> <b> Columbia River GorgeWaterfalls: </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><b>Sheppard's Dell Falls with fairy tree and wildflowers </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><b>Sheppard's Dell Bridge</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><b>and Wahkeena Falls streaming down </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><b>in zigzag ribbons on stone, </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: black;"><b>creating white water over rock</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span> <span style="color: black;"><b>Interdependence Day</b><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span class="hasCaption">Eternal Light of Peace Memorial dedicated by
President Franklin Roosevelt </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">in the company of over1800 surviving
veterans of the Civil War on July 3, 1938, </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">the 75th anniversary of the
bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg</span>—
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<span><span><span class="hasCaption">commemorating the 1913 re-enactment and reconciliation ceremony on </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">Cemetery Hill on the living
green fields of Pennsylvania. </span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span class="hasCaption">May this light's meaning and intent heal
the spirits of the dead whose screams </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">still echo on these fields, and may the living be moved to reconcile differences </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">with mutually unselfish honesty, good will and reason.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Independence </b><b>and Reconciliation Celebration, </b><b>July 4,
2012</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It began with heartbreaking remembrance, the acrid smell of
canon fire</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">still in the air after half a century, the exhausted climb
up Cemetery Hill</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">still felt in their muscles—They had returned, veterans from
both sides, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">North and South, to re-enact their movements on the last of
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">bloody three days of the Battle of Gettysburg. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the final Southern
charge of the war~ </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">12,500 Confederate soldiers led by General George Pickett </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">went
straight up that hill and into the line of fire by Union troops </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">waiting behind
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pickett lost half his men. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of the 160,000 Americans </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on both sides, 51,000 or more</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in our Civil War. </span></span></div>
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the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Pickett’s Charge, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">50,000 surviving veterans traveled to the same place in Pennsylvania,
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the youngest among them at 61 and the eldest purported to be
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The commemoration ended with Confederate veterans </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">walking
the path they’d taken up Cemetery Hill </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to the stone wall where Union
veterans were waiting </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to shake their hands and embrace them.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt met with nearly 2,000 still
living</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">veterans for the battle’s 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary. Their
average age was 94.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The President dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
commemorate that most truly civil reunion </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and reconciliation embrace of 1913. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today its flame can be seen from a distance of twenty miles.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the front of the memorial are the words carved in stone, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Peace Eternal in a Nation United.” </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Though we are in another fractious election year, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">through all our fears and differences, may it be so. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May civility rule with compassion and reason </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in creating new
paths to peace. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the hundredth anniversary next year, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">may the way ahead be
brighter.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May we keep holy the day.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Alla Renée
Bozarth</i> <b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span class="hasCaption">is led into Paradise by an angel. </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">Living waters wash the horrors of war </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">from his soul and refresh his spirit </span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span class="hasCaption">for his journey through healing light.</span></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Interdependence Day Celebration</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I
sit in quiet regard</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in
the garden swing,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">eyes
over hours drifting</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">among
creature kin,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">see
them here— </span></span></div>
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<span><span><u><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An
afternoon ant’s effort</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to
take home a feast</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for
the clan— fur-clad</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">yellow-striped
honeybee,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">immensely
ten times her size,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">leaving
his outgrown body</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a
spirit gift to earth diners now— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Iridescent
green hummingbirds</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fighting
over twenty-five wild</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">yellow
irises— plenty, plenty</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">for
the tiny two of them!</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bright
green dragonfly napping</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on
a bowl of yellow rose petals;</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">yellow
sunlight dancing</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in
clear water, sunbeams bathing</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in
gold pools of water,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">down
petrified wood and rose</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">quartz
ledges, down the fountain’s</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">rocky
pyramid mountain; and</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">brightest
yet canary yellow</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">goldfinch
friends climbing</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">under
cascades of the sun-and-water</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">partners
to partake in their pleasure,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">drink
in the light and take flight</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">like
new birds just born.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There
isn’t time to tell you more— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I
am assigned to be their angel this evening</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and
put out fresh sunflower seeds for supper. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They
have fed me all day with their music</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and
colors— it is the least I can do for them.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And for the Three Treasures— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Way, the Wild and
Friends— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I thank you.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> Alla Renée
Bozarth</i> </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> The Book of Bliss</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> iUniverse 2000</span></span></div>
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<b> A Season of Spirit </b></span></span></span></div>
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Starlings </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I have seen, heard and understood the crisp, often
argumentative </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">language of science that takes place among a consternation
of crows,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but there is nothing on Earth as thrilling as the great spectacle
of ten thousand</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or half a million starling suddenly appearing from nowhere and forming </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the most magnificent dances in complex, intricate choreographies~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">flying stars, these earthborn birds named after them, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">they whoosh in like a slow wide lightning flash, equally
startling,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">winging their way above water toward heaven~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">yet so in love with time and life they always land
somewhere, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>filling tall trees, my neighbors' Deodar (Darling of God) true cedar,</span></span><br />
<span><span>the tall red cedars, the thick pines in my pasture, then the spontaneous </span></span><br />
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concerts of conversation, perhaps working out their next air
acrobatics</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>and power dances— then another sudden Whoosh and they begin the next</span></span><br />
<span><span><i>tour de force</i> arabesque—layered thick and banking, then rolling again</span></span><br />
<span><span>and again in waves of precision and grace,
then melding smoothly </span></span><br />
<span><span>into black funnels that mimic tornadoes— </span></span><br />
<span><span>as if protecting against the real thing with a colossal, </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“I’m here ” declaration— then swooping elegantly into</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">they move as a single being ~ the murmur of it, the wings!</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">five minutes of forevering, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of open-mouthed, scarcely breathing, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>total body wonder, while the Spirited Gift continues</span></span><br />
<span><span>and the collective consciousness of their single body</span></span><br />
<span><span>scouts, scopes, spontaneously plans, confirms and performs</span></span><br />
<span><span>the great dance toward sleep for a roosting site—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">this sublime murmuration of starlings, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">their iridescence of wings glittering</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in sunlight, strobing through clouds . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>then as suddenly and strangely as they arrived,</span></span><br />
<span><span>they disappear through an unseen door in the sky</span></span><br />
<span><span>for the quantum dive of a laser beam landing </span></span><br />
<span><span>into a safe night near the river—</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and only the angelic salutation befits them— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Glory to God in the Highest, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Peace and Goodwill
to All Beings— </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> The Frequencies of Sound</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b> </b><i>for
Dr. Sylvia Earle, </i><i>age 77, Ambassador to the Ocean~</i></span></span><br />
<span><span> <i>who has come to be called "Her Royal Deepness" by her colleagues</i></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">pearl divers aim for wet white fire,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">gather iridescence into their arms,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ascend— </span></span></div>
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<span><span>others born to depth</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dive deep and longer,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">passionately seeking </span></span></div>
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<span><span>to understand and care for the ocean,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the lead scientist visits the bottom of the sea to meet</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ancient creatures new to her and learn from them,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">inhabitants of <i>the
blue heart of Earth</i>~~</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">her heart rises to vibrations </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of radiant essence below— </span></span></div>
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<span><span>bright ambassador traveling down</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and down and down, dancing</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in spiral balance for aim</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">careful not to rush</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the sacred deepening . . .</span></span></div>
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<span><span>until sea waters pull her</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">into divine luminescence,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">realms of unknown beings . . .</span></span></div>
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<span><span>where her fingers suddenly touch a body </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of six feet long spiraling bamboo coral— </span></span></div>
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<span><span>and to her joy her touch is met with</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dancing rings of blue fire—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>touch above, electric blue rings spiral upward,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">touch below, they spiral down, touch above and below,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">rings of blue lightning dance up and down in bubbling </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">delight together, shooting blues stars, orgiastic in deep water—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>the scientist plays in their blessing embrace</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">at levels of heat from undersea volcanoes </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the Pacific Ring of Fire that would blind or kill</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">at lesser depths, yet creatures who live there are</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">more alive than mere humanity, and her humanity </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is more alive there also—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>below dense darkness they meet at explorers’ end—</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">their bodies landing to light in light,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a secret access flame to resurrection—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>star swimmers who have gone past the depth </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">where light can penetrate,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">astronauts of the bathosphere— </span></span></div>
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<span><span>they delve through dark matter</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and after eons find themselves</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in angels’ nests of poetry and sea stars—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>woven of moving lightning,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from them arise deep mournful songs </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that haunt our salty air—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>then starfish somersault to where such strange creatures </span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">shyly show themselves to visiting explorers, </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">human sailors in a deep sea galaxy— </span></span></div>
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<span><span>when they rise without words,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">shining from the journey,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and return to normal ground</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">where we await them,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">they carry new depth within them—</span></span></div>
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<span><span>eagerly, unable to wait to tell us,</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">they come into our arms</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">bearing purple, viridian and blue flowers </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of luminous wisdom, and we open our ears,</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">our eyes, our minds and our hearts to receive them~</span></span></div>
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<i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Frequencies of Light</b></span></span></div>
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<b> Solitary Witness— In Memory of Her</b></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> <span style="font-size: medium;">Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is
preached throughout the world, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> what she has done will also be told, in
memory of her.</i> Matthew 26:13 </span></span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">Mary, whose surname means “Tower,” because </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">she was independent, stood alone all on her own, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">and she was a tower of strength to Yeshua </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">and the other disciples— Mary Magdalene </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">of the fishing town of Migdal or Magdala, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">where no doubt the whole of the lake called</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">Yam Kinneret or the Sea of Galilee could be viewed</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">from a higher elevation of land, as from a tower~</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">Mary who prospered in Galilee, yet she suffered— </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">perhaps those seven devils known by everyone besieged</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">in the talons of depression— anxiety, futility, sadness, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">fatigue, physical distress, flatness of spirit and </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;">no sense of access to the core self or soul. </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div></div></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Then she met Someone, a rabbi, scholar and carpenter</span><br />
<span>who had friends in the fishing profession. He recognized</span><br />
<span>and acknowledged who she really was— and this in itself</span><br />
<span>called up the wholeness that was in her, and the power</span><br />
<span>of truth, of confidence, of loving community, of joy.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"You are a great heart,
a generous and loving soul,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><i>a born leader,
brilliant and brave, and you have </i></span></span><br />
<span><span><i>the gift of a wise and
independent spirit needed </i></span></span><br />
<span><span><i>for the work that we do."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span>Then he invited her to join them.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">She may have been that generous woman</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">who washed his feet with her tears and</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">anointed them with expensively perfumed</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">precious ointment~ and perhaps from envy</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">was rebuked for wastefulness by other disciples.</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Jesus said, “Who else among you has shown</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">such courage and love?” and promised that she</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">would be remembered for it, calling her prophet</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">indeed by defending her with the recognition</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">that she was preparing his body for burial.</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Though she endured the envy</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">of men who craved first position,</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">she embraced the honor</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">of being chosen the one closest</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">to his heart, first among equals,</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">apostle to the apostles,</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">heartbroken and solitary witness</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">to Christ’s resurrection,</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">entrusted companion.</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">This liberated woman was known</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">by God to be the one strong enough</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">to leave the Beloved, in order to fulfill</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">his desire that she tell this astonishing</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">truth to the others, whether they</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">believed it or not, and to call them</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">out of hiding and move them to attend.</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Later she was driven away</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">by lesser powers across</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">the Mediterranean Sea,</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">shipwrecked by storm</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">and her own destiny,</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">and came to the French port</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">of Marseilles, then</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">some time after that</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">went to Italy.</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">The Gospel reached across the sea</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">through her well-seasoned voice.</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Making her way to Rome</span><br style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">to confront the tyrant there,</span><br style="animation-name: none; 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exhaustion of grief in her face and her eyes puffy after weeping for
sorrow at the disappearance of his body~ on top of his brutal death. She
can be visited in an Easter Garden arrangement that includes the virile
and muscular figure of Yeshua/Jesus at Mission Santa Barbara. Next to
them in another niche is an arrangement of Saint Francis and St.
Clare, looking just as natural and strong. The sculptor of this
masterpiece and the other magnificent works is the artist, Bruce Wolfe. Seashell pictures are from Google Images.<br />
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The icon of Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles, was written by Franciscan Tertiary Brother Robert Lentz. Read what he says about the saint and this work here, where reproductions can also be ordered: <a href="https://www.trinitystores.com/store/art-image/st-mary-magdalene-2">https://www.trinitystores.com/store/art-image/st-mary-magdalene-2</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span>Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-6773468040417557682012-02-13T15:58:00.030-08:002019-05-18T17:15:08.713-07:00St. Valentine's Eve~Patience, Grace & Openness to Insight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Holographic Nature of the Soul and the Universe/Multiverse Prove that All is One and Linearity is Merely a Convenient Flexible Artifice. The Truth is that We Live in Flow and the external seasons and feasts often do not coincide with their internal counterparts. Calendar events are not merely fixed, external, nailed-down recurring events, but states of mind and spirit that can be observed and celebrated at any time, for Each is Bound to All and spacetime is mostly a matter of micro and macro mirroring.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Scientists long for the discovery of the GUT of the Whole of Creation, the Grand Unifying Theory that they will mistakenly call a law, when by their own reasoning, all they can do is describe reality by metaphor. They've learned that reality itself is not a nailed-down thing, but composed of probability waves, in other words, as-ifs, and in still other words, the approximate language for Truth~ poetry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally realizing the folly of searching for the GUT of it All, they now have a slightly more humble TOE-hold approach, a Theory of Everything based on tiniest strands or strings within the quanta within the proton, neutron or electron of the atom~ One-billionth the size of an atom, a single ribbon or strand wiggles and danceswith countless others inside a quantum inside a particle inside an atom, proportionate to the entire solar system compared to a single one of Earth's trees. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, the micro and macro worlds enjoy a fulfilling relationship with each other, making up surprise gifts wrapped in ribbons and bows in what might be an eleven or twenty-six dimensional universe as proposed by string theory, where all contradictory and unrelated laws are reconciled by the brilliant Reality Itself, with constant elegant and elaborate exchanges Everywhere, proving the Generous Heart of God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A note from a friend today reported that someone at Wisdom Ways in St. Paul last night (when I began to write this entry) offered this Ash Wednesday suggestion:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Stars in Your Bones </b>North Star Press of St. Cloud 1990,<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Water Women</b> (audio) Wisdom House 1990, <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Moving to the Edge of the World</span> iUniverse 2000,<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This is My Body</b> iUniverse 2004<b>. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>String Symphony</b></span></span><br />
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<b> </b>Repeat the sounding joy~ </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Repeat the sounding joy~</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Repeat the sounding joy~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A small lesson</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in sacred harmonics,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reconciliation between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">drums and violins,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the frets of spacetime</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stroked with the bow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Grace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A new particle pops up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">every hour to wake us—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">give us a chance to stretch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">our minds and reach for a star.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s true, we now know, that a water drop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">does not fall into the ocean and dissolve,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but a water drop holds life in its core,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and opens itself to take in all the ocean,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sky with its visible and invisible stars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take your place and right position</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for hearing the music of the spheres</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as you’ve never heard before—</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Notice the colors, and by our limited perception,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the dual particle percussion and wave smooth systems</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the countless stringed instruments inside the multitude</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of quanta composing all creatures! Notice how they create</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">form from nothingness, how a bald empty place in the grass</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reveals the true heart of the matter . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While the music of the day is valiantly played</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if by a six-handed seraph, a love song from the places inside</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a particle of light opens Love’s heart to lowly Earth and high Heaven.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The bow of night slides, rubs, glides, the daylight fingers pluck</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the strings across the sounding board or strike the drums,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the warm wood of the violin or cello~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And waves of longing hope containing both chaos and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ever-changing order, both stunning freedom and astounding destiny,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">repeat the sounding joy~ {repeat the sounding joy} ~to Infinity!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<i><b> </b></i><b> The Frequency of Light </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was the honeymoon of the ocean</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the land where mountains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">leaped forward to say I do</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the ring of fire at once</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lit up beneath</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sea, where otters lay</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on their opulent backs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sunbathed their bellies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while casually breaking open</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a shell of freshness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for breakfast</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the fellow on the beach</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was singing to his bride</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and strumming his guitar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to which she danced circles</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around him, the sand quivering</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beneath her toes and seagulls</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">descended in neat even rows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to listen, transfixed, but when</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the groom stopped and the bride</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stopped also, the gulls rustled and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">squawked their disapproval~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for they had discovered how to make light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">come up from the inside of earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the same way that it came</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of song</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they did not want it to stop,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not ever, ever</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to stop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but to keep on showing through their feet and the sheets of air</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around them ~ for they were a chorus themselves and knew</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that the secret of life is that we repeat,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">repeat, repeat ourselves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but with great or small important variations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through spindrift, fog </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and everything </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> “Love trumps hurricane as seatrout </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>sing their hearts out” </i></span></span><br />
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<i> Headline in <b>The Oregonian </b>science pages </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>November 18, 2004</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Hurricane Charley came</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to Charlotte Harbor fifty miles</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">south of Sarasota, Florida, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">another thing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was happening—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fish family of croaker and drum</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">drowned out the sound with their courtship songs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sand seatrout raucously purred from dusk into night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in irrepressible romance, while the ocean rocked</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its second place background music of wind to them—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shhh Shhh it crooned, and the fish chorus belted out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its <i>More Life</i> love songs with volume unsurpassed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">both during the storm and for three days thereafter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the Between Seasons, one can feel the vibrant juices trickling out of the spirit, leaving it empty and dry . . . cleaning it out for rest in the still holy darkness, and beyond our imagining and hope's reach, new life and growth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The strange and familiar glance at each other like concentric circle dancers face to face as they flow along in opposite directions. . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is needed in the Between Times is patience, Grace, and openness to insight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the thirteenth of the second month of the new year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thirteen are the moons of the lunar calendar, governing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the observances of ancient cultures and modern poets.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its numbers are one, indicating solitude and new beginnings,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and three, indicating resolution of movement: beginning, middle, end.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Make them holy. Complete the circuit of action: inhale, exhale,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">inhale again . . . seamlessly onward. The number two means</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">partnership, conflict or balance, or all three commingling,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the last of Epiphany goes through the calendar door</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yielding to Lent coming in, contemplate that while the word <i>epiphany</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breaks down into its sources, the Old Greek words for "I shine, I appear"<i> </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(phaino) </i>and "upon" <i>(epi)</i>, Lent, which we'll stumble into in a matter</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of hours, is the Old English contraction of "lengthening light,"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through <i>lencten</i>, the word for Spring.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox, we move</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from darkness to revelation of new forms (sprouts and shoots</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of plants and baby animals) to more light . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lives within you, radiant</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">resting at your inner hearth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your body’s core, and the fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that flows through your vessels</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is divine, and all your vessels</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holy, and your openings and closings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">also holy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the warmth created in your blood</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is the same warmth as the golden sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gives forth, flooding Earth with light and life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so the stars are temples also, and all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rivers and seas and tiny, invisible animals</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and every plant and tree, also a temple. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the Loving One wakes and moves,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dreams and dances in the spaces</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around each atom, and flies the electric</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hoops that give each one its name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And in each atom’s center is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Holy One’s bed, and also beyond.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We — you and I and stars and seas — are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fruit of the Holy One’s passion,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">our limbs and laughter, light and air</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and our darkness, ice and fire — all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">longed and loved into being by God’s deep desire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Within you, within me, lies a godling seed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fed by our love toward its birthing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And in that emerging will be great gentleness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and grace — pleasure and yearning delight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Creator/Creation in full-filling embrace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For God is Both and All,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">within and beyond,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O! Most Intimate Mystery!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In you and in me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the rock and the tree,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and in all the spaces</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Alla Renée Bozarth </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Stars in Your Bones: Emerging <br />
Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1990; and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Moving to the Edge of the World</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> iUniverse 2000</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether the fruit of the season is the ability to continue</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as we were or the experience of new Holy Aha!, I wish you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the ongoing powers of patience, Grace, and an extension of gratitude</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and trust toward the darkness that is commensurate</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a balancing openness to Light . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before entering the season of fasting, lightening, emptying</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the cupboards of excesses and all that is stale and going bad</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our lives (in attitude toward reality if not the harsh realities</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">themselves over which we have no control), in order to become</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wide open to new wonders and opportunities for service and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">respond to them with all our hearts~ in Thanksgiving for the</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holographic nature of all life, seasons and forms, where each</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dwells in the heart of the other, and each is in all, I say a last</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Alleluia!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">St. Valentine, Prisoner for Love</span></b></span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Claudius the Second preferred war to love, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and had as many wars going as some men have lovers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He needed for more lovers to bail out into war—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for war to be hot, love must be cold, or be forfeit, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so he froze both free and binding love out, banned marriage, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turned would-be lovers into unwilling warriors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One man with some help saved the day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for secret love, Valentine, a priest of Rome. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In small candlelit rooms he whispered </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the marriage rite, blessed people who preferred</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each other to war, gave his life away to serve</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God’s purpose for the human heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the emperor who loved war </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and warred against love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">found him out, arrested Valentine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sentenced him to death,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a casualty of human willfulness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inside the slammer, the guard’s own daughter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was allowed to visit Valentine each day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the day of his murder he left a note for her,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in which he simply wrote, “Love~~ your Valentine”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No match for the wicked, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">love’s victor became exalted</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over death, over war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The captive priest of love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">continued through the end,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and now beyond, to celebrate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being enthralled not to fear and hate,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but to the conquest that comes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in absolute surrender, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gives up gladly reason, approval of family, form</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all, for Love’s own service, God’s own gift, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the fullness of Life and More.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Purgatory Papers</b> c. 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and <b>Postcards from Paradise</b> c. 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This is a true recent story reported in my newspaper last week.<br />
I looked up St. Laurence O'Toole and was touched by his life.<br />
I hope that whoever has the saint's heart in reality will treat it kindly . . .</i></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Who Stole the Saint’s Heart?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The amputated heart </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of St. Laurence O’Toole </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had been on display </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a cage behind iron bars </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the Dublin Cathedral</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for eight hundred years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when someone broke in one night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and stole it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the lonely heart was kept </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">separate from the rest</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of its body in a heart-shaped box</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">made of wood, fashioned to capture </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the hearts of those who might pay </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to adore it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">perhaps the burdened saint himself</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">commissioned some mystical human thief </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to bring tools to cut through the bars</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and steal back his sad and crumbling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">innermost flesh, give it a decent burial</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in some lovely, lonely place beneath</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an oak tree of Ireland, let it take its place</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at last in the economy of holy creation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and free his memory forever </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from its unnatural prison</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">perhaps that brave symbol of Ireland’s heroes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wearied of being gawked at by ghoulish admirers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and for so many centuries besieged </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by the million desperate prayers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that would overwhelm any human heart,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">alive or dead, if not the Heart of God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Words Fail, and Still . . .</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My friend in prison who reads</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The New York Times</i> daily</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sends me articles about the arts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the obituaries of inspiring </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">men and women which, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not allowed scissors, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he carefully tears. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They come out of my mailbox</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like shaky angels, frayed at the edges</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from their rough ride with humans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He sends me editorial pearls from prison, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and stories that make it possible for me to know— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How in 1951 Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-born Jewish philosopher poet, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">son of poor Russian immigrants, performed lines from his critique </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of T. S. Eliot’s anti-Semitic poetry at a prestigious reading </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How his poem referred to a Nazi newspaper and then invoked Shakespeare</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Polish River Vistula as he read his indictment of post-Holocaust poetry</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that spoke disrespectfully of God’s children on any branch of the tree of life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And led by Stephen Spender who denounced him</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for insulting Eliot, the British version of pandemonium</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">broke out with the literati jeering, “Hear, hear!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But one man who’d arrived just before Litvinoff’s poem began </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and quietly sat down in the back of the room was clearly heard </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when he muttered, “It’s a good poem. It’s a very good poem.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The dissenting voice was T. S. Eliot’s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emanual Litvinoff died </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">60 years later at 96.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1996 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a gentle Polish poet</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">named Wislawa Szymborska [Vee-swahv'-ah Shimm-bor'skah].</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A reflective recluse by nature and calling, the attention brought on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">devastated and silenced her for a very long time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her contemplative activism through poems</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">quietly woke up the world by addressing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the inadequacies of ideology and describing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">human suffering and social indifference</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the uncomfortable similarities between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">good but damaged people and evil people—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with only 200 poems published in the slender books </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she’d released at the time of the prize and a lifetime’s work </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of less than 400 when, at 88, she recently died . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And finally the very-much-alive-at-85 W. S. Merwin telling an interviewer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how strange and hard it was to tear himself away from his home </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a tangle of ancient vegetation in Hawaii to become the nation’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poet Laureate for a twelve month term last year . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was in this same excellent interview that he talked about </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the impossibility of being able to put into words what poets keep </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">attempting to put into words—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How the things that only poems can say</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can never be confined or bent into words,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but neither can we, with our <i>human merely being,</i> stop trying,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forcing or begging language to express the inexpressible,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so great is the need of the human soul to voice its vision,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">desperation, countercultural hope and relentless thanksgiving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Merwin recited from <i>A Child’s Garden of Verses</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the language was beautiful beyond bearing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so that it flowed in and past the borders of a person,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flooding over the banks of the eyes— he recited Dylan Thomas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who wrote that <i>after the first death there is no other</i> . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">knowing this already at 25. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And Merwin said that he no longer used punctuation in poems </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because the poem shouldn’t be nailed down, but allowed to breathe </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and have its being freely, like all truly wild things, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which alone are truly free. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can long to express what something or someone means to me— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to receive such gifts from a friend in prison, for instance—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the words would fail.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can yearn to translate the music of rain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like streams of violin music playing itself through liquid wind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but only the rain can speak its own meaning and play its own music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A devoted artist at some point</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can only stand helpless before holiness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being verbal animals we still struggle to say</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">something, if only to ourselves . . . but at best</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or a single sound— and only by desperation or accident, actual words—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sacred dance or stammering hymn of our own holy making.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a sanctuary’s entrance way and bow to the altar, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and tell you how sorry I am this is so (or perhaps not even tell you that) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because it is simply impossible to write or say what the body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holds in the secret folds of its silent molecules where wisdom dwells, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a mute hermit among the cells.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>All art is autobiographical; </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i>Frederico Fellini</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Creator loves a really good mystery,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is why She started </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">telling herself the story of us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every word makes Her wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what we’ll do next.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Universe and each atom in it are pearls in the life of God, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the poet who practices making something of value </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from loneliness or pain, and sometimes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is irritated into the creation of beauty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as an alternative to madness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We become born, grow into our own</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">place in the world, take our small chosen </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or accidental places in history, learn </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to recover daily from its misery </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by falling in love with all manner of mystery—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by simply being willing to do our best </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when things are beyond our control, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as well as when they are not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We follow the unforeseen sudden emergencies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of births and deaths and opportunities, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dive in to meet them without time to consider alternatives,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and there, in the bomb shelter of the day, in the airplane </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">surrounded by lightning, in the restaurant where all the food </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">spills into our laps during an earthquake disrupting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">our orderly lives— our hand touches a stranger’s hand, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or a friend’s who’s become a stranger in the darkness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and whose alluring mystery we experience again for the first time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or our lives change when we open the door</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to a fine coffee store, step inside and become drawn</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ever forward toward the irresistible grace and smile</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the person who offers us a sample of the perfect blend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We keep falling in love with life, and so are invited </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or tricked into seeing it all through. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without thinking too much, we move</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the magnetic necessity of wonder and desire,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">find a new but familiar form of the great mystery that keeps us alive,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the immersion in bliss that keeps moving the story forward.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We keep discovering <i>us</i> out of the muddle and grime,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the lonely frenzy of every day, and we keep moving on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">toward the miraculous, the unknown, the yet to be spoken</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">next chapter of the whole story.</span></span></div>
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<b> The Subject was Kisses ~</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Third Degree Kisses</b> <br />
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These lips. I am talking <br />
about these lips now telling this story.<br />
Forget romance right now.<br />
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I’m talking about new lips,<br />
the lips of a child adoring<br />
and being adored~~ discovering<br />
the magic of kisses as connected<br />
with laughter and people one loves,<br />
innocent infant kisses.<br />
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When my father was an old man<br />
he told me that my lips were<br />
historical by three degrees.<br />
Puzzled, I said, Go on.<br />
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When he was seventeen<br />
he couldn’t breathe in Olympia.<br />
The Pacific gods threw him out,<br />
sent him south to a drier place.<br />
He sheltered from sea air<br />
in inland San Antonio.<br />
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The Texas belles came out to chime<br />
one summer night where he was staying,<br />
in the home of an old southern judge<br />
and his younger wife, a genteel lady, poet <br />
and painter who sketched scenes of history.<br />
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My young father was invited <br />
to a Grand Cotillion<br />
in the mansion ballroom.<br />
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The occasion was a celebration<br />
of the one-hundredth birthday<br />
of the Grand Dame of the city,<br />
an elegant lady not a day past 18<br />
in her mind, and still a great dancer.<br />
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The time came for the official dance<br />
which the guest of honor would lead,<br />
and of all the men present, the Lady chose<br />
my father, by then a manly nineteen,<br />
the bright new poet in town. <br />
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She said, “You are the youngest person here.<br />
I shall dance with the future.” <br />
And they danced into the next century, <br />
all the way to a new millennium,<br />
once around the floor for each decade<br />
till then~~ six times.<br />
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When he had escorted her<br />
back to her throne for the evening,<br />
he gallantly bowed in the style of true <br />
southern gentlemen, and kissed her hand.<br />
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A twinkle in her eye, she grinned<br />
and gripped his arms with joy,<br />
then pulled his head down to her face<br />
and kissed him, firm and quick, on the lips.<br />
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Eyes wide, he looked in hers and listened,<br />
for she held up her finger in a pay attention gesture.<br />
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“Young man,” she said. “When I was just your age,<br />
I danced for my debut in this very room.<br />
I chose a young officer to dance with that night.<br />
His name was Robert E. Lee. Before evening’s end,<br />
he escorted me onto the terrace for a breath of sweet air<br />
and a glass of champagne. I tasted it from his own lips,<br />
still moist with the bubbly when he kissed me,<br />
just out there. Now you have been kissed<br />
by the lips which kissed Robert E. Lee.”<br />
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And I, as an infant, was given the legacy.<br />
These lips speaking now were kissed by the lips that were <br />
kissed by the lips that were kissed by the lips of Robert E. Lee.<br />
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Alla Renée Bozarth ~ <b>The Frequency of Light </b>~ Copyright 2012<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are trillions of creatures,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">some so small the ant and mouse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and solitary bee seem giants —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">close for warmth and crumbs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">outside — thousands of species</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of birds and insects,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rabbits, moles, creepy-crawlers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of all sorts, the neighbors’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cats and dogs and cows and geese</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sheep and horses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then inside are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the heavenly hosts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who welcome me to my table,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and earth angels in food and flower,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so open to intimacy and even union</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with eye, nose, hand, lips,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">organs, words, dreams and poems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Besides these, all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">human colleagues</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">represented by each object:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the artists, laborers, crafters,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ancestors and friends behind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the presence of every beautiful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or useful or meaningful object</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the forest of trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that live on as furniture,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">picture frames, and the very</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">structure that is <i>home</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I share my tree house</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with millions of unmet mates</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gratefully.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mealtime meditation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brings in even more, transient</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">guests — those myriad beings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who have been part of my food’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">journey here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I neither live alone nor eat alone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes I need to step outside</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to taste a moment of relative</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">solitude, and even then</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it’s an illusion: the stars are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as with me and alive</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as the sleeping bugs in the ground</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beneath my feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can stretch in any direction</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and bless it, knowing a companion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is there within touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And because I know that every bush</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is a burning bush,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I ask the roses not to burn my lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when I bend to kiss them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The Book of Bliss</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> iUniverse 2000<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For years now, ever since the body started falling apart, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No more trudging through the days of Lengthening Light in deprivation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spring cleaning, yes. But the rest is ongoing~~ the attentive prayer, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the study, the sharing, the service to others and self-amending. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There isn’t much time left here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just time enough to live it up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and start some serious practicing for paradise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>Purgatory Papers</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> copyright 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s Valentine’s Day and— the door bell rings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m not ready for human interaction. Still busy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the computer. This project dislikes interruptions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I answer the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s my neighbor Cody</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Princess, his dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Princess is a big six year old puppy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The second I pushed out the screen door</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she ducked her head inside it for a kiss, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">grinning all over, lips to tail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her human stayed in the background </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until she decided to visit the trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the front yard. Then Cody</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">extended a Dove Chocolate Rose</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wrapped in red foil on a long stem,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and shyly held up a small white paper bag.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Rhonda {his wife}was up at Joe’s Donuts yesterday </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for coffee and brought me one of these along with the rose,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so I thought I’d go up today and get another one and a rose </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for my wife and some for the girls {his daughters} and you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It was really, really, good. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m telling you, Joe’s has been around</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for fifty years and it deserves all the praise</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">people give it. Your doughnut was all nice </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and fluffy when I bought it, really good </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">chocolate with vanilla frosting . . . Only thing is, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to apologize.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cody was right. It was a little squished,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was still pretty fluffy. I figure, it being safe in the bag</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all, and Princess not getting her teeth in it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cody put it on the car seat and she just . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">well, sat on it. Bless her heart is all I can say.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That doughnut was one fine thing and made my day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound </b>c. 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pick up your pen or brush, computer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">create the only world you can almost control—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">paint with fire, write with laser, compose with spirit,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">embody with true voice, choose your depth and color, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">call up tones of your own combination—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is the one place, no matter how disturbing or lovely,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where you do not need to hide your alternate selves,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where their visions and voices can be expressed in true freedom,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and will want, therefore, to be at their best—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and where you yourself can find relief,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if you need to, from <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">terrible circumstances</span>, unhappy bonds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or absent self— or, better, by Grace, where you can express</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thanks and delight, pray for peace, pour your wisdom,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in some simpatico stranger’s ear, eye, hands</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or mind, fill acoustic space with something beautiful</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and true, or to rest in sacred trust</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an animal of another species such as</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or a bird— or a majestic vegetable such as</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a venerable yew or an ancient bristlecone pine tree,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a dandelion or an unwanted thistle—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are harming the most vulnerable</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">part of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s easy to be kind to God in puppies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and kittens and human infants,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in loved ones when they are being lovable,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but to be kind to the less savory appearances</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Great Mystery is not so easy— as when</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we crush fifty aphids or fleas between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a finger and thumb until their green blood</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is sticky and wet on our skin, in order to protect</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the rose we love whose life they are drinking away—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or the grimy kid who grabbed the old lady’s purse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and took off running after he knocked her down,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or the lion killing another mother’s child—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that is another thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These are creatures, along with mosquitoes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and thorny nettles and so-called weeds, among</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the thug-martyrs of Nature, for they confront us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with conflict and give us an outlet to protest in rage</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and perplexity against the annoyingly incomprehensible</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">complexities of Mystery, and to keep on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">acknowledging Its nastier aspects, even in ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Mystical Body of Christ means that the Creator became infinitely vulnerable </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by manifesting in the life-and-death dialectic of space-time creativity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In matter, God suffers. God suffers because we do, the Great Mother suffers </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with and in Her offspring, every one. . . . Flesh of Her Spirit, all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the suffering is not what She meant at all,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but a somehow necessary side-effect of being alive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s the sort of thing one wants to send Her back to the laboratory for,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to keep working on matters of pain and grief and violence and the food chain,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> until She discovers how to make free will and the chaos involved</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in creative process less horrid in their destructive phases. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, here we all are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here She is within and around us, Everywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of us suffering together and some of us trying to help</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not make it worse for ourselves and each other, but better.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the Love Stress of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Can Suffering Hurt the Soul?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wrote this about eleven
years ago (in 2003) for a friend [Thea] whose world had blown up . . . again.
She asked me one day if physical and emotional suffering could hurt the soul.
Thinking of the Eternal Soul, the Godseed that holds steady like the kernel in
the deepest core that keeps its light whole no matter the turmoil and anguish
around it, my first response was No. The Soul of souls is safe in unbroken
union with God. While the Divine Compassion registers all suffering
in creation and quivers with it, It remains Whole in the great God Heart where
all is well at last, and the part of us that is There remains safe, no matter
what. Meanwhile, however, the layers of experience around that often
inaccessible core soul as we perceive our own lives and selves to exist from
day to day do suffer, are vulnerable, may feel shredded and worse than shredded
from time to time. The outer human layers of soul we sometimes call Psyche do
indeed suffer horrifically, as the body which we might consider the outermost
layer of our beings suffers. The Godseed soul quivers with the Divine
Compassion that gave birth to it. Everything around it may fall apart, even
irreparably in temporal terms, but deep, deep inside we are in God, forever
safe, forever our true and luminous selves, eternally whole. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is no virtue in suffering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is no meaning or wisdom in suffering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suffering is hateful. Love of suffering is insane.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If meaning comes, or if virtue or wisdom come,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is because the one who suffers makes it</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through increased compassion for the suffering self</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all others who suffer, which is everyone that lives,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">including the weeds and the stars.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To love those who suffer is what we all do, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for all the living do suffer, and even the light </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breaks to make color.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To bear witness to the suffering</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of someone we love can be harder</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than suffering ourselves.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We hate it that loved ones or strangers suffer.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We hate it that <i>we </i>suffer.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We love those we love, and every hour we’re alive </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we still have time to love ourselves.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our own suffering (and the suffering of bearing witness)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can be so relentless that we become intolerant of all
suffering.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We want to overcome it, like an allergy one develops </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from overexposure to something. But we may not be able to.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We may be stuck with intolerance of it as we are stuck with
the suffering.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then the only thing to do is sing</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">whenever we come up for air.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or dance even when we can’t walk,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with our hands in the air, fingers</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">doing the cha cha or waltz with each other. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is prayer.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even in unconsciousness,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we can dream of a universe where</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there is no suffering</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and evil is outlawed</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the sense that it is outside </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the laws of nature and has never</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">existed. Right now while we’re here,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we don’t care if it’s a little boring there.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Boring might be restful for a few minutes~</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then we’ll wake up anyway.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It can be enough. All there is</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can be enough for one more day</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of sunrise and a rainbow. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We’ll know when the day comes that </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we’ve had enough, and enough of suffering </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is always too much.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suffering can hurt the soul,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at least its outer layers. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They can bleed clear through.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Things are stolen from the soul</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by too much suffering.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Things missing remain missing.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What we needed there is gone,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we need to put on emotional prostheses</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to do what we need to do, to think</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and feel our way through.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We need poetry, music and art, we need nature </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and friends and meaningful work and to serve others.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We need to study, learn and discover, and so move beyond </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ourselves and the suffering, for pain has no meaning, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but what we make of it means everything. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We need to focus on something that takes us </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">outside of ourselves and the pain, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that absorbs our spirits and minds </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and whatever our bodies can bring.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But there may be bad days, days so consuming</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they swallow us whole, and, whelmed over, we can’t </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">get a hold of ourselves or hold ourselves in. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We wail. We rant. We weep. We scream. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Others try to calm us. They can’t. It passes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another day will be different. Another time will be better. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We may look another suffering person in the eyes again, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a second, and not go to pieces or turn away. We may not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are simply times when the soul is too sore to put on
its prostheses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those days, let angels who still have mercy to give visit us,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and give us everything they have. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i> ~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Learning to Dance in Limbo </b>and<b>
Purgatory Papers</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Negative Alchemy</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When pain is inevitable,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">regular, relentless and long,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as in a Dakota winter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or chronic illness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a creature may come </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to over-adapt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pain is taken to such excess that it turns,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by negative alchemy, into pleasure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The golden rose of good health or good weather</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">becomes the bitter root of an orgy of grief,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and stardust morphs into lead, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">black hole heavy, dense and dead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is not the same as martyrdom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is a true masochism, the miscreant outcome</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of spiritual bewilderment over one’s place</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and power in the events of creation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is the turning into power the facts of powerlessness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a perverse decision to return the harsh grip</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with an embrace, and to enjoy the abuses of existence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is a terrible choice, and soon choice becomes compulsion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is preference of the shocking crucifix over the empty cross,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that emblem suggesting that one look elsewhere for the Living Christ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One prefers the bloody, decaying and dead, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from overexposure and lack of escape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One is drawn to the habit of suffering over the risk of resurrection,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like those prisoners of war who refuse to leave </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the liberated camp, and return to refuge</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in their familiar and comforting darkness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One creates security from misery</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if nothing else remains, and then, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in exhaustion, one clings to it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mistrusting of respite and change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Conversely, those whose lives are one pleasure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">after another can become numb from excess,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and what was meant to give joy brings unhappiness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as too much pleasure turns into pain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Too many apples eaten from the orchard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Too much wine at the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Too many kisses and the body begs to heal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its worn lips. Too much elegant food</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the spirit bores from beauty and longs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the refreshing mediocrity of something </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">inferior but untaxing, different and new, or</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">whatever one’s favorite comfort food was in childhood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is what we are inclined to do—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turn things into their opposite,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then become habituated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, the wisdom of ending something</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before it falls over the threshold from enough to too much—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">go home from the party before one is too tired—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the moment, leave the Beloved’s arms before </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one is too filled and no longer feels the astonishing joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of being loving and loved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leave something to look forward to</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">come the next morning or night. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With sustained gratitude, keep longing alive for the very beings </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and things you cherish the most and hold near,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lest your heart turn weary of bliss, and warmth go tepid and cold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And let pain move on through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and out of you— or detach from it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in peaceful co-existence—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before you give up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and decide to marry it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You have better things to do.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Purgatory Papers </b>c. 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i> </i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Crossing the </b><b>Red Sea</b><b> Bed</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A bed isn’t made until</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it’s been hand-blessed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by a human~~ beautiful </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and smooth, the first act</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the day upon waking,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">done by a woman, a man,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or a child, asserting, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am here. Let it begin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With this act, a person</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">makes the border crossing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between dark dreams </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and daylight, overcomes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the paralyzing encasement</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of sleep and rises from</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the unconscious </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into refreshed powers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and possibilities </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of transformative action.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each movement brings more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">harmony where chaos and turmoil had been,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With every stroke and tug, the maker becomes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more awake and aware. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Making a bed is an act of hope in endurance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The person performing this primary work</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">affirms the power of visibly positive action,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">asserts a faith in the future in creating an inviting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and welcoming place for rest at work’s end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of increasing consciousness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The person awakens.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine the sea-bed being made,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the women, the men and the children</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">smoothing the waters and blessing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sheets of seaweed and sand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with their workers’ feet, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">plumping the earth as they danced</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and ran, rising out of the stunned and perpetual daze</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of slavery to redeem their old lusty freedom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine the family of three who led them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miriam with her brothers Moses and Aaron,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">running as later David, the shepherd, the future-king poet, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would lead their descendants, running with the Ark of the Holy, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">shouting Hosannas, daring to lay undying hands on high heaven~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emanuel, God-with-Them, that portion of earthly paradise </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soon to be promised. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miriam the Prophet, Woman Clothed with the Sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Sister of Stellar Grace she was that day, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a body of water had stood and bowed to her,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had parted itself to make room for her passage,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">give safety to the procession of Israel,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">those who wrestle with God and prevail— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miriam, Leader of People, Singer of Victory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine how she gathered them all in her dance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wearing her crimson and garnet dress with long purple fringe, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">silver and golden bells sewn into the hem and the seams, vestments worn</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in memory of her by high priests for a thousand years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She passed through the veil, the curtain, the wall,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she stepped into the sacred place of the Holy of Holies,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she gave music to a covenant of freedom, she lifted her voice </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and shouted in poetic song, with cymbals and loud tambourines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Priestess and Queen, Miriam, Mother of Hope, Poet of Praise,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she danced with her people, she led their spirits that day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i> <b>The Frequency of Light</b> c.2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b> Bodhisattva Meditation</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Color is the suffering of light. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> — </i>Goethe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>All ground is holy and every </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>bush, could we but see it, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a burning bush. </i><i>— </i>C. S. Lewis</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Are you tired, Friend?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So tired you have forgotten</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nearly every automatic habit</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that tells you who you are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and how to move from one moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the next? Forgotten</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how you write your name</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or hold your comb or spoon?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgotten how to use a pen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or play your musical instrument?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How did this happen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You let your life pour out of you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without taking time to refuel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We forget how the body changes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and has new needs each day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a moment of exhaustion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you became even more overly responsible</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and failed at the simplest thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In weakness we forget mercy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gently, now – make merciful revisions</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of everything — your shopping list,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your daily chores, even the pleasures</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which have sadly become a burden to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Make more room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take more time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don’t vacate your own home or your garden~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">vacate the world from your schedule!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give it back to itself and take back your life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with interest from this tremendous investment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be satisfied with your work and move on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take all you want. Take decades. Take a day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pace yourself lovingly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Practice the efficacy of effortlessness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Draw to you only what you love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and truly need, like a diamond magnet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feel how holy the Mother Earthbody is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through your slowed-down soles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See the countless soulflames flare out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from every being you now meet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do you see how these strangers now </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">coming to you quietly are soulkin?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Breathe again!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Are you broken?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Very well, then.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Become once more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the light you are,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">generous, a gift to all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in living color —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shine forth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in rainbow blessing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through love’s shattering</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">prism, love’s listening</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tears. In love, you never know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the difference between compassionate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sorrow and bliss. Intimate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with each other, pain leads</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through love to growth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and new reverence for the mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, whether through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">service or bliss, let love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">restore you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is the service of receiving</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as well as the bliss of giving,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the service of giving</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as well as the bliss of receiving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, it does not matter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which comes when, only that you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have known it all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So love gathers itself together</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into a single radiance again,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the maddening joy of being human</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">becomes part of the white fire of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b> The Book of Bliss </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Broom Wars in </b><b>Bethlehem</b><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You think the Arabs and Jews</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are the only people fighting for turf</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the Holy Land?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why leave out the Christians?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aren’t they also human beings?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where there are humans</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there will be power struggles</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and turf wars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if there is only one human,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sooner or later, a fight will start.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ego will try to crush superego</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and have its way, then id will come up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wipe out everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But as long as there are two humans,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the mind won’t have to go after itself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It can beat up the other person.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Didn’t the Holy One (Blessed Be <i>He?</i>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tell Adam and Eve to dominate everything?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, that’s the translation anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Top creature has rights, and God (or someone)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">said that humans are here to dominate and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">use everyone else, even each other if they can,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and everyone and everything else is here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to serve and please the new species.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I ask you, does that make sense?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What kind of a nutter creator </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would allow that? No, it was</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the person telling the story,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">period. And translators didn’t help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All three People of the Book</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">go by the Book when it tells them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they are at the top of the hierarchy of creatures, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but they still want the chance to prove food chain supremacy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What’s their most recent display?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the Holy Land today all is calm for the moment between Arabs and Jews. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Christmas pilgrims have cleared out of Manger Square and left </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Church of the Nativity a mess. Dust, sand, mud, gum wrappers, used </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kleenex, you name it. Cleanup means trouble.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even though the Orthodox Christians won’t be coming until</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their Christmas Eve (which is Western Rite Epiphany), </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everybody else did enough damage. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The situation is ripe for the local clergy to start acting up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They all get out their brooms, priests and monks, all men.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They start sweeping. In less than two minutes an Armenian sweeps over </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the arguable invisible line that marks the borders between Armenia and Rome </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the stone floor. First it’s a verbal warning. Then a loud defensive call,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then the shouting begins and dozens of men in black— Latins, Russians, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Greeks, Armenians are clobbering each other with their respective brooms. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A hockey fight breaks out among holy men brawling again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This happens all the time. Over at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it’s worse. If any nuns are around they try to break up the brawling brooms</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and separate the boys, but pretty soon, they’re yelling too, first at the idiot men </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who’ve completely lost dignity, then at each other as territoriality overtakes everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rule is that anyone who cleans or repairs a portion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem owns</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that part of it. You can see how the problem arises.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After the stress of the crowds, the caretakers need a release</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and a turf war is bound to break out. A custodial moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is just the occasion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Back in Bethlehem dozens of fools for Christ</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have forgotten all about Christ and are trying</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to kill each other, but local authorities intervene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Israeli Army shows up to pull them apart and restore order.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good. Just in time for Palestinian musicians to come forth with Peace </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and serenade the masses with a Christmas Concert of Beethoven, Mozart, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tchaikovsky and Gabriel Fauré. It was beautiful. The musicians were superb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Merry Christmas, everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The liberal Israeli evening newspaper <i>Haaretz </i>featured a story </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about the event in praise of the gift of music while cautioning readers </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not to forget that there was no peace while denizens of Palestine and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">citizens of Israel were still fighting one another, and walls wrapped up </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holy places in stone and turned towns into prisons, in a land where </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Palestinians and Orthodox Jews both throw stones at secular-owned Israeli</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">buses carrying international peace-keeping passengers on Jewish Shabbat, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for different reasons and from different directions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Similarly, a decade ago in northern India the Sikh Golden Temple </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(center of a religion founded to be a reconciling bridge between </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Moslems and Hindus by standing against religious discrimination </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all forms of prejudice and oppression) was attacked and under </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a long siege by both Moslems and Hindus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I still remember the Holy Land Christmas story I read forty years ago </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the other side it said “Arab.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The donkey was dead in an hour. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was impossible to know which bullet had killed her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Around the corner on a small side street behind Manger Square</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there is a modest shrine called The Milk Grotto.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It commemorates the Nursing Madonna.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He, too, will be killed before his fortieth birthday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b> c. 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Isaac went out to converse in the field . . . Gen. 24:63</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is sometimes necessary, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of perception beyond</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oneself and the small</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">world of even great</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">human endeavor, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sky and be soothed by clouds,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blessed by rain— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the sensitive vision</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of our ancestors, ever </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into our true blue relationship</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the infinite heavens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that lovely Venus sparkles</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the eyes like a tiny green daystar,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more body and affinity in Creation than we</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">imagined, guiding us onward, humbly and yes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One who has been anointed with oil</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or chrismated, from chrism, which means oil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil? Yes. Since ancient times people were blessed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with holy oil before taking on a burden of leadership,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to help them as a symbolic reminder to their senses,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so that they would remember with confidence that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with each new responsibility, Grace to meet it would come, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Grace like precious oils imparting needed qualities</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would help them more easily slide through, around </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and between the obligations and obstacles </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which awaited them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it would soothe their stress points </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and heal their wounds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil is an elemental part of rites of initiation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The prophet Samuel was called by the Holy One </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to anoint the tribal chieftain Saul to become </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the first monarch of Israel. Monarchs of Europe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are still anointed with blessed oil at their coronations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil comforts and heals, and it is assumed that leaders will suffer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ordinary people seek anointing to ease and heal their aches and pains. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They go to massage therapists to bless their ravaged bodies from the stresses </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of so-called normal life. They apply creams and unguents to their sore feet, hands,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">necks and shoulders, or add oil to their baths for their all-overs and everywheres.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes their bodies are anointed just before their deaths </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to prepare them for return to their elements~ fire, water or earth, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as the breath goes or has gone clean out of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil heals, cleans, comforts, soothes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sometimes prepares the body for burial.. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Women took oil of myrrh to anoint the presumed dead</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">body of Yeshua after his execution by crucifixion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes babies are anointed at baptism</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if to prepare them to take on the burdens of mortal life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What does it mean, this oil, this chrism?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It means preparation and ease of passage. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It provides energy to be alert, to perceive</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and discern accurately, and interact wisely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It offers both energy and calm, and it heals. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It prepares the body to stay in or to return to health. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When it is scented, it prepares the senses to return to joy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When it is heated by lamps and kept warm it makes </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the surrounding air a fragrant atmosphere. It opens the senses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is used to relax the body for making love so that lovers can </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blissfully slide together as one in the dance of life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil is used in cooking delicious foods, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to prevent their burning, to even their browning, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to give weight or lightness as nourishing recipes require. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">White matter is composed of solid oil, the myelin sheath</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">coating around the long shaft axon of an animal’s nerves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It conducts transmissions which allow the nerves of the brain’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">body to be well and talk to each other. Oil enables neurons to send </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their synaptic messages smoothly across chasms through channels </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that conduct electric impulses away from the main body of nerve </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the actively connecting dendrites as they stretch out their fingers </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to contact each other, at tens of billions of connections a second. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why is Yeshua described as anointed?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For all these reasons and more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps in memory of the manner of his </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unjust death and strange form of leadership. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps as a wish that wounds to his psyche </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as well as his body could be soothed and healed, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wounds inflicted before his execution, when he begged </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be spared but was not, when he sweat blood from dread </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the garden, when he was jeered at by Roman thugs and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">called mean names as they whipped and beat him, as they </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stripped him and gambled to decide who would get his clothing—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wounds of demeaning, demoralizing, debasing, as real as the wounds </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on his back and brow where they pressed down a mock crown of thorns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wounds caused by contempt and malice for no reason at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His body was merely a whipping post that bled. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like all creatures, he was vulnerable to traumatic and horrible things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like all creatures, he was in need of balm. Balm for the spirit, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">balm for the body, balm for the soul, balm for the journey</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back into eternity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From birth we all are in need.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil helps. Oil delivers nutrients</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for growth and medicines for healing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oil strengthens. But more than anything,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oil creates smooth passage— passage for healing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hands, passage through tight places, passage</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to what is inside a tightly closed place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the start of our separate incarnations, Oil of Spirit is needed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to ignite the Divine Spark we are and inherit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When used symbolically, of all these things, oil provides awareness—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">awareness that all creation has intrinsic dignity and is royal by nature, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even when it is disintegrating toward new integrity in other forms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Queen or King of great or small, of many or one,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will need easement of passage through crises upon crises, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the grace of smooth bearing to carry burden upon burden,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as will a mother or father, as will the child passing through the stages </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of growth to adulthood, as will the adult moving from role to role, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">carrying responsibilities peculiar to each phase and stage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In life as in courtship there are times of rough wooing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when we think we will decline further engagement,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but a scented oil may clear the mind for creative</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">intelligence to provide the means to respond and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">remain in the dance anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, like all matter, oil is perishable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When it’s time to leave the hard worker body behind, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">allow it to relax through to its bones and lie down on a bed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or the ground and begin to break down and make its contribution </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to new forms of creation, some quality of spirit or energy works like oil,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">helping the soul to slide clean out the dear body and go back into God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For these reasons, every part of creation that achieves its integrity </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through hardship can be called a Christ, one who is in need of anointing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and will surely have it in unexpected ways, as from merciful angels, those </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who comfort our weakness and grief, who minister to our strength and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ease our victories with more grace than we ever imagined, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or knew we would need. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Love's Alchemy</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Macht Schoen</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my family I was called Baby after my Grandma,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who was called Baby all her life until she died. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even her youngest son my father called her Baby </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when he was also getting old. In her case it made sense </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because she was the youngest of four children whose Papa died </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when she was six months old. Time stops when a parent dies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my case it makes sense because I am both the oldest and youngest child, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and there are no lost in-between middle children in my family. Only me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For variety, my mother also called me Ange, for Angel, and sometimes </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hungie, to combine Honey with Angel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My mother said these names with a tender Russian accent, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and even if we’d been fighting, when that happened I’d melt </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and break into all-out tenderness toward her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I would stroke her cheeks and say, <i>“Macht schoen, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>macht schoen,”</i> which means “makes beautiful” in German. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My passionate mother loved passionate and poetic languages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I write this down for the first time ever, I am nearly three years older </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than she ever was. I am old enough to review my life and pay attention </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to how I feel about all the missed opportunities for integrity and grace, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wishing I had done and said those moments differently. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am old enough to be concerned that when she was ill, when she asked me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if she was dying and I took the path that wouldn’t kill me for hearing it aloud, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the path of least trembling and no commitment except to tenderness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and answered, “I don’t know,” and then sitting beside her for all </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the five days in hospital before she died, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wonder now if I was tender. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't remember touching her, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but giving her room to move out of her body, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yet so many feel the need to hold onto their loved one— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I only remember touching her when I anointed her </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Last Rites that last night. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I stayed until the nurse I’d hired arrived and introduced Mama to her </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and said, “She will stay with you for a few hours while I go home to sleep, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so you won’t be alone~ and I’ll be back in the morning.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And she spoke for the first time since she’d drifted into a coma the day before </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and said, “I’m not alone, God is with me,” to let me know that she knew </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was so, and that she was no longer afraid, which was a great gift, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for it meant that she was all right—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am suddenly and for the first time thinking about it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and feeling increasingly concerned that grief made me too stupid </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to do the obvious thing, to stroke her cheeks and say, <i>“Macht schoen,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>macht schoen,”</i> because it always soothed her so much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even when I was only three and did this, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her face would become relaxed and beautiful in my hands— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I am hoping that forty years of time have merely faded </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the fact from memory and I did, in actuality, do exactly that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To be sure, I vow that my first words to her in Heaven— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when with my hands of light and beautiful radiance </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will stroke her face of light and beautiful radiance—<i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my first words will be <i>Macht schoen, Mama, macht schoen</i>. <i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b> c. 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><i>Sometimes nothing has more meaning than something.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes, daughter of Albanian parents,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Macedonia in 1910. After her death at the age of 87, it came out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that for most of her life, Mother Teresa had no sense of the presence of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her father was murdered when she was seven, her family ruined,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the descent into poverty softened for Agnes by the Irish missionary nuns</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who taught her. She felt inspired as a young woman to follow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their Christ-like example of unconditional love for all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her first assignment as a convent teacher was in Calcutta. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On September 10, 1946, while she was riding on a train </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in that city of the poor, she heard the Christ speak to her directly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in these words, “Come be my light.” She was buoyed by a deep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and active intimacy with Christ, Who conversed with her often in prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, like a woman or child whose husband or father had suddenly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fallen into a dark, inaccessible place, she knew only inconsolable grief</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the greatest possible loss. To know intimately the love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Source of all Life and then to feel completely alone—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was the drama of her childhood replayed in cosmic proportion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet this bereavement did not stop her orphaned heart from faithfully doing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the work asked of her with the poorest of the poor, the rejected and dejected </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">people in the slums of Calcutta, India, and later, the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To know the One you love only by the degree of pain you feel in bereavement</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is a communion of bitter irony. The Divine Disappearance mystified</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the holy woman until she died. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only for five weeks in 1958 did she know relief~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After the death of Pius XII, she prayed to him for confirmation </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that God was pleased with her work. Her plea fulfilled, she knew </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">five weeks of joy before the descending darkness came again </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and lasted to the end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet, there was a day twelve years before, among her first months in Calcutta, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when she saw a woman dying in the street and sat with her and stroked </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her head until she left her body~~ that day was the turning point.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She knew then what she must do to serve: Give shelter, respect</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and unconditional love to the unwanted, the unloved, the abandoned,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and give them a kind and clean place to die in peace. She was one of them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She knew what it meant to be an outcast of society, marked by tragedy, unmoored. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like the orthopedist who hangs a picture of himself at seven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on his office wall, his arm in a cast, smiling with his doctor beside him,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tiny cast itself mounted on the wall, Teresa, whose name means <i>reaper,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reaped the harvest of her childhood tragedy by caring for others</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as tenderly as she had been cared for. On the cross she saw her Beloved</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">murdered as her father had been, and without sensing them near,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her compassion expanded to include them as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Astrophysicists recently made the huge discovery of an enormous Nothingness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the heart of the constellation Eridanus, near the foot of Orion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their attention first drawn by a cold spot in space, they looked further</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the profound darkness, and discovered an expanse within sight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of our own vision on Earth, an emptiness unlike any other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is not a black hole, which contains infinitely dense matter,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but a true void in the universe where Nothing is at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The breadth of its absence state is six billion trillion miles wide,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or a billion light years. No stars. No planets. No cosmic dust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No dark energy. No dark matter. Only Nothingness. No-thingness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like the effective nothingness that is in a placebo,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like the potency of the mathematical zero,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the empty space in a Chinese painting, where everything happens,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the silence in a room whose walls are made of prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the absence of light in some forms of blindness, the void in the mind </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with total amnesia, the void in the soul bereft of its Light~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing is everywhere~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are now university courses on Nothing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is the newest place to explore with the collective mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It may be the most charged place of Grace, beyond imagination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was written about by the mystics~ the mountain hermits, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the desert saints, the dervishes responding to Sacred Nothingness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with their divine circle dance. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Be My Light,” asks the Christ. The weary Christ. The heartbroken Christ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Be My Light and I will rest in you, for now and always, We Are One.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing is the place from which radiates all possibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is the resting place of God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<i> </i><b>The Frequency of Light</b>, c. 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Everything Seems to Be </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just out of sight, according to </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for our greatest good. . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and discoveries of deep Spring Cleaning:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Private Archeology</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Writers love books.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Writers who make books</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">own hundreds and hundreds of books</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to each one that they themselves write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A writer’s house can get so full</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of books, books everywhere </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all the rooms and closets,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">under all the beds, even in the guest room,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in case a visiting writer wants to sleep over—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">books that aren’t cook books inside the kitchen cupboards—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but in case of flood they’ll let the bathtub float, and the sleeping</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">look down and see, first thing, a book to let her know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that she’d better get out and dry off and rescue those wet pages</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and read them while at it, and get busy with a book of her own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you ask a writer to loan you a book, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a natural species, they’re simply not equipped for the job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of architectural work, creating such a marvelous house</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">could bring on disaster, bend the joists in the ceiling,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to being a house made of pictures and words. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the feel of paper and the sight and smell of ink,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">alternately, flashlight in hand, reading glasses of all strengths strewn</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about at random for easy reach in all the rooms and on all surfaces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Presently, the writer learns to identify books stashed three rows deep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the bottom shelves, and layers laid horizontally over them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The quest becomes a thing of touch and intuition— a long reach of the arm,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the book begged for to Psyche blindly, easily presents itself to the hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">recognized by the feel of the cover— linen or paper, glossy or textured,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the size of the jewel box itself— and success yields a thrill</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of joy that moves up to the writer’s shoulder and leads</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to a leap in the air and a yelp, worthy of any archeologist</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who opens the door to a Pharaoh’s tomb</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and senses golden art within reach.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For writers live on gold mines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The books in their homes hold</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">could find in a thousand excavations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The writer’s search work is easier,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the dark to be sure, but aided</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or, sometimes by accident, the foot makes contact</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of private treasure hunting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so that instead of settling in with the found thing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the search is just beginning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anything now that will illuminate the hidden trove</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of that source vein, that can yield the next book</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from some still secret alcove in the writer’s mind, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the bubbling, gurgling, gleaming mother lode.<i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Create Joy </b><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><i>The pain passes, but the beauty remains.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i>Renoir to Matisse </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suppose you have a chronic affliction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">{Who doesn’t?} Suppose it distracts you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from your life and you don’t want it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in your life. You want to say, I am more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than this misery, I am more than this body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Go ahead, then. Live through the pain but</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">create around it, create so much that is beautiful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wonderful and marvelous, so much that is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">meaningful and helpful to others and also to you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">create so that the pain will not have a chance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to tempt you. It will not be able to get a word or a groan in</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">long enough or deep enough to deceive you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into giving it your identity. Instead, you will be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what you create. And you will always be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what you create. And what you create will be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for those you love, for the strangers who will meet you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">long after your pain has died forever with your recycled body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they will find your clear, radiantly healthy spirit, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they will say, Thanks. This is lovely. This is just what I needed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if you are unable to create with your hands,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">create awareness with your mind, create insight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">create peace with your spirit by letting it be drawn out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and beyond the window pane into the fields and sky, the marketplace, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the festivals, across the oceans, to other planets and between the stars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember the world that needs more love and love it, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">love individual beings where you find them, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">move your mind out into it and travel through it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with tender eyes and an appetite for everything marvelous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let the pain melt away with your mind’s love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the form of self-transcending compassion, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even when you cannot smile or speak or think. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In your deep meditation that happens by intention below the pain, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will your burdens to become blessings, like compost in the earth, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like sooted snow in late winter, yielding to the sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One inner word is all it takes, as simple as, “Here,” or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Help,” between breaths. It will be done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will have made your pain into something more, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a connection that keeps alive your bond with all living beings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And from below, their own soul roots will quiver</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a feeling of having been strengthened and blessed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will have been part of everything, still contributing, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reverberating that one intention throughout time and space </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beyond your own body, mind and mortal life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that will be your forever joy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even after there will be no more human beings to experience your spirit,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it will be part of the Song of the Universe to infinity, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">part of the Holy One forever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and <b>Purgatory Papers</b> c. 2012 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>History of a Water Goblet</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By candlelight or at the breakfast table</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">regard the water glass in your hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">see how it fills with light, its stem</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with color—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consider that once it was a mountain,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">perhaps the sacred mountain </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the center of the universe, for every</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">atom is an egg at the center of a world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This mountain in its great antiquity began</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to shed its skin, down through the layers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and eons, its many skins. Sometimes volcanoes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would erupt pyroclastic rocks from their deep core— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">boulders and stones, thunder eggs flew forth and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">geodes broke open on the way down or while cooling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These thunder eggs, boulders and stones in their turn crumbled, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the crumbs crumbled, and around rivers and lakes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around streams and the seven global oceans . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sandy beaches formed, and in this way mountains found that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they were able to feel the caress of waters for whom they had </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">once longed from great distance, for water and earth are ever attracted,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will always need and desire one another—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Millions of years passed and the sands refined further</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until the mountains felt like silk velvet beneath the feet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of walking creatures, beneath the bellies of those who crawled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then in our time, this most recent split second in the short hour of life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the clock of geologic time, the mind of human beings began</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to think of possibilities. Imagination said, in not so much of an Ask</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as an Is, “What if a solid gray mountain could become as transparent as air?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What if a person could look through a stone mountain?” and in response </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the wonder, someone gathered some sand into enormous shell buckets and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">took them where the hottest fires that stone ovens could hold burned blue,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the sand was mixed with other elements, some the same as exist </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our own animal bodies but in varied proportions and blends, and mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that were volcanoes felt the familiar fires upon their grains of time and silk,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they melted for joy . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">moving around and around a long pole, watching as it changed shapes and</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">light and color danced and changed from moment to moment </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">throughout its millions of years, and which now is the exquisitely </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">delicate goblet you hold in your hand, its form as smooth as skin and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">clear as the pure water it holds, the billion broken photons of light in each</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">molecule now come together to reveal the true colors of everything— </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you see first how fragile a great stone mountain can be, the mountain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">covered with snow and harboring fire in its belly, the mountain which so often</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">opens the door of death to its climbers and pilgrims, the mountain where</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">liturgical processions around steaming rocks and dangerous crevasses have</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">progressed through the night to celebrate triumphant weddings performed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at dawn, and entire wedding parties have danced on the summit, the couple</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">conducting their wedding night all day after a breakfast feast </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down in the timberline chalet, and then you see how one thing </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always becomes another, and then another and another, and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nothing on Earth or anywhere remains as it begins, but is always beginning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">something new, even while it is still ending as something older . . . </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and in each phase of its existence, the largest or the smallest thing </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">experiences a beauty unique to that time of its being,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unrepeatable, and even as we hold it and regard it, it changes, it continues</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to change in our hands, in our eyes, even in our dreams . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as we ourselves are ceaselessly changed, only to become something or</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">someone else, both ancestor and descendant of many creatures whom </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we now already love, or soon shall learn to love, or cannot by any means</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">imagine but shall nevertheless love . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Learn the breath-giving beauty of a soul~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as the warm fleshy rose that lives and pulses </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a river or the great mother ocean, whose water-blue rose </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Learn its rhythms and moods, both calm and aroused—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the rose in a storm or basking in sunlight from rain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how can one go back there </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the luminous realms </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of waking</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when neither the world nor sleep </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has any real claims on the vagrant soul? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pray before sleep, humbly, for the gift </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to return.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember your life:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is the clay pot </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you shape for years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and finally you feel </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is right, and then </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it shatters in your hand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when you hold it out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the world to touch, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then the world takes it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in its myriad pieces, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">broken and ash‑ridden, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">meaning God takes you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in those great hands </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you and your life </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are mended with glue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of gold and given back </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to yourself, and then </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you know you can wait </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the broken dream </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your life poem </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to come to you again </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in any form it wants, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you will take it, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hold it, bless it with tears </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of pure gratefulness, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and see what vision </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it gives you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and hear what cry </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it calls out for you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from its many cracks </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and openings, from </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its willing wounds </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where beauty is born </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the lost light </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">comes to you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all over again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> What to Do With the Wounds </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every day the world </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">throws forks at me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(it wants to </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eat me up!) — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I try to catch them </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I can’t keep up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some of them hit me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come, plant flowers </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all those fork holes </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and turn me into a garden!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Distilled over fire </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a long, long time, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">finally the true essence </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a thing remains, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and from this emerge </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the elements of soul- </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">making, twofold: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from fire comes </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the luminous air </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that gives understanding </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by these means — the watery </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elixir of Life that is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Compassion and heals, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the earthy Philosopher’s Stone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that is the Wisdom that turns </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all dross into gold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is so simple </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it could be written </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the inside of your hand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a reminder. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It could be written </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on a pearl.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take one star‑fed life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Add the immense weight </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of lead and a drop </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of toxic mercury </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to read the soul’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">weathers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These are the givens. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forget looking for them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now apply the unspeakable </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pressure of truth </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the red heat </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your passion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the end, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you’ll come to </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pure gold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b> </b><b>Garden of the Unsung Kaddish</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the heart there is a garden </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where everything has been young </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for a thousand years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There secret poems hide themselves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in rabbit warrens and roots </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of evergreen trees. They wait </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for someone... to sing their melodies, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">chants that will awaken dreamers </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the vines and cause an enchantment </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to lift from their eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then finally everything will be allowed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to grow old and die, and so everything </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at last will really have lived, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">including the true wild songs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the heart, and all the unfulfilled </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">longings of the souls of creatures </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will be given their Great Amen, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">acknowledged and honored and so </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">put to rest. Then at last </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the unaddressed injustices </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can be absorbed by the universe </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forever~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This Mortal Marriage:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">If you feel your life</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">needs solving, try</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">absolve all that is</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">yourself and others—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">dissolve all that is</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">absolved and its residue— </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">resolve anything that remains </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">conflicted or incomplete, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">by what means occur to you </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">in dreams or while in </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the shower or walking </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">in the rain.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">If these do not work, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">then live with the mystery </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">as originally planned. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">There will surely be,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">as surely as tomorrow,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">a way through or around </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">everything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Pray for protection, then, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">from your own hesitation, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">so that you do not miss</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the moment of Grace </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">when it comes to you,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and pray also to be delivered </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">from your own aggression, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">so that you do not kill </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">this fragile, vincible Grace </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">when it floats over to you </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">like a pearl on seafoam.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Then simply keep moving. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Stay alive by moving along </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the rhythms of rest and </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">discovery, and be brave </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">in any event.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">for redemption.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the mind there is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a way to consult the divine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what happens to the life of one who, from young to old age, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">frequently visits these extreme, holy above and below places—
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they are not places of mood, but of Wisdom and Grace— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is that nothing stops the flow between Earth and Heaven, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the mind and the eternal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the body wears down to the ruins </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of thin skin over soft flesh and bones—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where once it was a fresh garden, it’s become</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a salvage dump with hidden treasures that wait for those </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who know where to look— and as it always must,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the dance goes on without interruption, from feet to
fingers, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the dance redefines and revises positions and rules and simply
goes on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Dancing the Labyrinth</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There
is a way </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to
begin —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">meaningful
movement</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is
the child of stillness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See
where you are. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
do not have to be </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anywhere
else </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or
better </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than
you are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feel
the Grace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of
the Earth and God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through
your soles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This
is the pathway </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of
soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And
it is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a
constant</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turning!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let
your feet find the ways </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to
Oneness and lead </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your
dancing heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is play.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
way allows </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wings
and those </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who
lumber.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
way allows </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
bleeding </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
broken as well</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as
the fit and strong. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
may be feeble</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
frightened or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
may feel </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">invincible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Either
way</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your
inner angel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will
be the one </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to
carry you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
way is black</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
white and also </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">living
colors —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all
suggesting </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">change.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
snow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
way is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stone</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from
the mountain’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heart.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is desert floor </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
way is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mindfulness.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is the soul’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unbinding</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
the body’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">healing.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is the cleansing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of
the mind’s eye.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Simply
begin.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At
the center </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
will find </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your
truest self </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
your birthplace </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at
the heart of the rose. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
the phoenix nest </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at
the center </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
will die and</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be
touched by fire.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When
you return </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we
will know you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">truly
for the first time. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We
will welcome news </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
bring from home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Food
you bring </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will
ready us to follow. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Songs
you sing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will
call us into Mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
only reason </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for
going into </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
open heart </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of
the labyrinth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rose</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is
to let your heart </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">break open</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so
that you can hear</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
first cry</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of
creation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when
God birthed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
universe,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
you can</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">become</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">large
enough</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to
respond,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let
your whole</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">life
unfurl</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in
all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its
magnificence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
purity,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
cry back</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to
the Holy One</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with
the beauty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that
will rise</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">within
you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
<b>Accidental Wisdom</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> iUniverse 2003</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tomorrow is not certain for the individual incarnate being that lives and dies, but tomorrow holds for the Universe ~ now thought to be an oscillating body, endlessly born, growing, collapsing, reborn, growing, collapsing, reborn . . . and for the Souls freed beyond mortality and reborn into Oneness, all of these things are taken care of in the way that is best for them and for All . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LVj1aSiuF74/TznWzQV3EfI/AAAAAAAAA5s/6TKYEdds1kQ/s1600/scan0056%5B1%5D.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CCNext0-Uq4/TznArB8PsmI/AAAAAAAAA4o/qDxZiVelCuc/s400/IMG_5319.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Part Two~ </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
<b> </b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Renascence</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“Never mind. The self is the least of it.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Let our scars fall in love.” </i> Galway Kinnell</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Astrologers say that a person’s sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can be intercepted at his or her birth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The outcome is a difficult life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Things blocked, thwarted, overlooked,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forgotten.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If only we human beings could remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how long things take, the river that took</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">two billion years to carry those wind surfers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out on the wake today, the two million year old</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mountain that sits on a mother mountain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fifteen million years old, that rests on a range</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of mountains seventy-five million years deep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the Earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wish, but then, how futile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If onlys </i>never resolve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to have been unthwarted,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unblocked when we first touched lips, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unstopped by the law as we were,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the bored policeman at three in the morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with nothing better to do than shine his light</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our faces to blind us and tell us to move on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so he could feel how powerful he was, interrupting</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a couple of adults about to discover</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the texture of each other’s souls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Surely there were kinder ways for Fate</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to have stopped us. It’s clear we had to be stopped, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and perhaps only something as drastic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as ridiculous humiliation could have done it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Still, I wish that forty years ago had been</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a fulfilling of sorts, without damage to anyone,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turned out well before we parted, instead of leaving</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a bitter taste in our spirits. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I wish so many things, to unhurt everyone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mostly to start over a sentence,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">make the words come out connected</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to thought and sense and right perception.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I must practice like a monk the detachment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from outcome, the blessing of loss, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gratitude for the fact that we were</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">full of something wonderful, and though</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we were fated, it seems, from discovering</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that treasure in each other’s arms, we both gave</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ourselves magnificently to the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today is the four-hundred-something anniversary</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the burning of Jeanne d’Arc. She is the only person</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to have been martyred by the Church for heresy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then declared a saint. Does life do it deliberately,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">allow such tragic miscarriages? Or are there so many</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">accidents that even God wishes they never had happened</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or could be undone . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever there was between us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was burned a little, but not killed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and could be realized only in some </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">parallel universe or heaven.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps in less than four-hundred-some</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">years it will accidentally draw us together again</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">behind our own backs, when we have become</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">two beings made of light and wind, and we will feel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a certain touch of unfulfilled promise,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and turn, and let our scars fall in love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound </b>c. 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Falling in Love</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It begins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the eyes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">usually,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or the voice—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a look, a spark—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">something evokes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a warmth, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a sweetness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rising</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the chest—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">attraction,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tone</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of skin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or voice,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the fragrance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of hair—a certain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">graceful way</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of moving—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but this is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then you speak,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the stories</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">begin to amaze,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">arouse, delight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">admiration</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">takes hold as</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a vibration</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of recognition</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your minds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But this</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is not love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then the proximity</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of time and lives</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brings you brushing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">softly around and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">against each other’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">aura in the normal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">course of things,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and affection</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in each other’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">energy fields,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you feel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the heat</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your bodies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">merging,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the shared smile or glance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the occasional hug</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in greeting </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or farewell,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">perhaps a light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">touch of lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on cheek or hand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or lips.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is nearly love,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but not yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, one moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when you are not</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">looking for it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you suddenly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bring your eyes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around to meet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the eyes of this</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brave and wonderful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being before you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you find</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you are in</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the presence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beckoned</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by a miracle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to move forward</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and step off </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">exactly like</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and impossibly </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unlike yourself,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it happens </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to both of you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Falling in Love with Fire</b>, c. 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Eros in Memory~ A Love Poem</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Published below with holiday images in thanksgiving </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the Valentine's Day long ago when my husband and I</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">were guests at a brunch and Thea our host wrapped up her delicious </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and artful frosted valentine sugar cookies and gave them to us </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a gentle but clear warning: "These are made of ingredients </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">known, when combined, to have a strong aphrodisiac effect."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Later that evening we were hungry and opened our sweet gifts . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and proved how very right she was! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Images below are from Win Wenders' 1987 film, <b>Wings of Desire </b>~</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> I paused the digital recording and took these pictures </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> from my television screen. </i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From inside the dark winter night house, wrapped in a comforter, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I stand at the long windows, my body dissolving into ecstatic happiness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the beauty of full moonlight casting naked limbs of the crab apple tree</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my eyes could be January ghost eyes, but they are not, they are alive as breath, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and my soul moves through silence with their bare dance pose of solitude. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a secret we share, this tree and I and the snow and the moon </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at three in the morning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scene is one I remember seeing each winter full moon</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the ten years we lived there— I, looking from that window onto </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sequestered backyard, I alone, while my husband was sleeping. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And though the last time it happened was twenty-six years ago this winter,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rainy and windy night over a thousand miles from there in the house of my </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">widowhood and elder years, it unfolds before me now with sensory immediacy </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if it were right here— the full kinesthetic memory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then and Now are one, and my body is the body of Then.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which happens for the first time without end whenever it comes to mind— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We have just made love and I am lying naked on my 22 year old studious </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">husband’s bed while he is dressed to go out and sitting at my feet with an open </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">book in his lap. It is the book I found yesterday while on another domestic dig</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the bookcase— finding the ancient history text of Hebrew letters and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lessons from our student days. He, younger than I, was still learning the words </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and their presumed classical pronunciations, articulating them aloud, rounding </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was practicing parts of the body and when he came to my foot, his voice </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">became rich as a cello, the bow adoring the strings as it slid purposefully </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">across them and back again—<span class="hps"> </span><span class="hps">רגל</span>— <i>régel, </i>he said. I will remember this word </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forever, he said, lifting my right foot to his lips and kissing the vamp and then </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the arch underneath— <span class="hps">רגל</span><b>—</b> because my Beloved’s foot is <i>regal, </i>he said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Winterfire~ The Rebirth of Love Poems </b>c. 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and <b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b> c. 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Valentine and labyrinth symbol images are from the Internet, as is the picture of the dolphins. The cone nebula galaxy image is from the Hubble space camera. Magical raindrops are from<i> The Hidden Beauty of Pollination</i> video by Louie Schwartzberg and his image art collection: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html">www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The "Bearing Gifts" card is by Will Bullas. The Holy Bear Icon is by English artist Isabelle Brent, inspired by medieval manuscript illuminations. The misty image of the Columbia River and Gorge after "River Song" was taken by my friend John Jarman. The garden and angels at the table images were taken by me, as were the animal images except for the dolphins and polar bears from <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/">http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/</a>. I also took the picture of little Emily (when she was much younger than now) across Coalman Road, who names, loves and takes care of the goats. The horse lives in my pasture and his own next door, and the cows are my neighbors across the road the next pasture over from Emily's friends'. The picture of me in Wales was taken by my husband Phil Bozarth-Campbell, and the picture of me on my 60th birthday with my roses was taken by my friend and neighbor, Susan Lind-Kanne.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Russian Matrushka (or Matryoshka) Nesting Dolls~</b></span><br />
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<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6251"><span class="" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6201"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6200"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6207">The Dolls are carrying things for a
tea party~ Mama brings the big tea pot, First Daughter brings the cake,
Second Daughter brings the bowl of berries and cream, Third Daughter
brings the wooden serving spoons, Fourth Daughter brings the trivet for
the tea pot, Baby Daughter brings a tiny napkin to wipe up spills . . .
And with them is their faithful guardian Bear, made of amber in
Czechkoslovakia. The two women guests in red boots are handmade also.
The dolls, the bear and the friends were all gifts from three different
friends over the years~ my cherished friend
of nearly sixty years, </span></span></span></b><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6251"><span class="" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6201"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6200"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6207"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6251"><span class="" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6201"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6200"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6207">poet/teacher Pesha Gertler,</span></span></span></b> gave me the dolls; </span></span></span></b><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6251"><span class="" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6201"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6200"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6207"><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6251"><span class="" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6201"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6200"><span class="" data-reactid=".9h.1:3:1:$comment10202173253607515_10202173295048551:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6207">Margo Maris, </span></span></span></b>Oregon-born (in the same hospital
as I was, Emanuel!) sister priest gave me the lovely
hand-molded and painted Friendship figures in red boots; and artist Anne
Shams brought me the Russian style bear carved from amber from her trip
to Czechkolslovakia. The framed angel is a Christmas card from Jenny
Weber, a dear neighbor down Tapp Road, and the white ceramic angels are a
gift for my 39th priestly ordination anniversary.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6461"><span class="" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1x.1:3:1:$comment10202173258047626_10202174736204579:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6460"><span class="" data-reactid=".1x.1:3:1:$comment10202173258047626_10202174736204579:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6459"><span class="" data-reactid=".1x.1:3:1:$comment10202173258047626_10202174736204579:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$6:0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415086259731_6458">Each
doll has a long black braid down her back with her own color of bow at
the bottom and a flower at the top. I've cherished this gift from Pesha,
my friend of nearly sixty years, and will continue to cherish it and
her to the end of my days~ and beyond. In the picture, all the children
and their Mama are singing, while the Angel provides accompaniment on
the lute! I love how the beam of heavenly light seems to be entering the
Angel's crown chakra from above . . . May all our inner angels be thus
inspired!</span></span></span></b></div>
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was a magic moment at my Advent tea table a few years ago. I was
listening to beautiful chanting of "Creator of the Stars of Night," the
hymn we used to sing at Compline. Sipping tea from my white and lapis
blue Catherine the Great design oversized teacup, I glanced at this
framed picture of a summer rose, "Pristine," on the table on my left,
with "Heirloom" and other framed rose images from my summer garden in a
half circle toward my right, to see me through the dark months of
winter. I blinked and SAW the fire in the rose, a reflection on the
glass from the candle nearby! Thank God for cameras and the one in the
kitchen drawer that gave me the moment to revisit as needed: "Into the
crowned knot of fire, and the fire and the rose are one." T.S. Eliot,
from Little Gidding, last of Four Quartets.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pooh Bear helped with the camera work and then settled into his customary chair in the dining end of the kitchen, which is called the Hummery, for with stashes of tea and pots of honey it makes us hum in happiness to be here. (Note the honeycomb carpet beneath the table.) It was a cold evening with a colder night coming. Being half-surrounded by images of summer in the heart of winter brought joy. From my chair while listening to chanting of medieval Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music, I glanced toward the winter garden in front of my left eye and then blinked, thinking I'd seen it incorrectly, but I saw truly from my perspective in relationship to what was in front of me at that moment. T.S. Eliot's ending line of <i>Four Quartets </i>became a visual icon at the table when a certain angle of vision let me see the candle and flame reflected in glass over the photograph right at the heart of the rose named Pristine. After that I wrote "The Sovereignty of Joy." First, here are Eliot's lines from "Little Gidding," the last of the <i>Four Quartets:</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We shall not cease from exploration<br />
And the end of all our exploring<br />
Will be to arrive where we started<br />
And know the place for the first time.<br />
Through the unknown, unremembered gate<br />
When the last of earth left to discover<br />
Is that which was the beginning;<br />
At the source of the longest river<br />
The voice of the hidden waterfall<br />
And the children in the apple-tree<br />
Not known, because not looked for<br />
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness<br />
Between two waves of the sea.<br />
Quick now, here, now, always—<br />
A condition of complete simplicity<br />
(Costing not less than everything)<br />
And all shall be well and<br />
All manner of thing shall be well<br />
When the tongues of flame are in-folded<br />
Into the crowned knot of fire<br />
And the fire and the rose are one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Today is Christmas on the Julian calendar still used by the Russian Orthodox Church. Last night was Christmas Eve and I drew on my Russian descent to celebrate, feeling finally ready for Christmas now that the world has calmed down from all the festivities. Yesterday was the Feast of the Epiphany on the Western liturgical calendar, beginning a whole season of unfolding revelation as more and more light gradually returns to us each day, though now scarcely noticeable. During the four or five weeks of Epiphanytide, we celebrate the offering of precious gifts to the Christ Child, the descent of the dove with words of love during the adult baptism of Jesus/Yeshua to launch him into his rabbinic ministry, and the first miracle he enacted in obedience to his mother's request at a wedding in Cana, a small town in Galilee. The host was running out of wine for the reception guests, and to spare him embarrassment his mother asked that he transform water into wine. A good Jewish son, he didn't argue but did so without fuss or fanfare. </span></span></span></div>
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2003. Thanks to Gilbert J. Mros, who has graciously made the hour long
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">According to the tradition, the Magi arrived several days after the birth. Perhaps they were men (as is generally assumed), and they preferred to be late rather than ask for directions. Perhaps they were women with sense enough to conserve energy and stop often along the way. Perhaps they were both. The sheer grit, faith and perseverance required on their journey were gifts enough, but tradition says they brought with them gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, symbolic offerings honoring the future life of the Child. The newborn of any species is a reminder of the beauty and fragility of every creature. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Every species, every birth, every life, and at life's end, every Return to God is precious. All of it is a lot to bear. The wisdom of bears is helpful with application to human life as well. My life in the company of bears gives me constant access to it, thank God, the Great Mama Bear in my version of the Holy Trinity, "the Bee and the Bear and the Butterfly."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">In <i>The Manticore</i>, Roberston Davies writes, ". . . if we are really wise, we will make a working arrangement with the bear that lives with us. . . . Cherish your bear and your bear will feed your fire."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Pooh Bear adopted me and Phil (by the latter's prearrangement) on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 1971 and became our resident theologian, Medicine Bear and Wisdom Bear. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">I didn't meet Pooh or visit the Hundred Acre Wood until I was 24 years old and Phil's new bride, and he borrowed <i>Winnie the Pooh </i>and <i>The House at Pooh Corner</i> from our friends Craig and Judith Wylie so we could read them aloud to each other. We were three month-newlyweds, Phil a second year seminarian and I a newly ordained deacon and doctoral candidate. We were also facing the likely death of my mother (which happened three months later). On a day when I most needed to embrace a big bear, Phil took me by the hand to Sears and parked me under a sign that read "Boys' Wear" while he approached a salesperson. Then he motioned to me to join them. As we all stopped and the salesperson reached high up, my eyes followed her. I saw Pooh Bear go into her arms and then immediately into mine, which were stretching upward and wide open. We went dancing through the Sears store together exchanging seasons greetings with everyone around as the whole store seemed to relax into a smile. We have been dancing and discussing everything on Earth and in Heaven ever since. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reflection below was written in the dark winter season of the northern hemisphere and suggests that Joy is a kind of pilot light in the soul, ever-ready to ignite, always waiting without impatience, even if there are long distances of time and circumstance when the top burners remain dark and cold. Even there, looking closely, one can see the faint blue light of dormant readiness. Joy patiently waits for a person’s hunger for it to well up to consciousness and activate an old memory in the directing mind, which finally reaches to make a single clear turn beyond its small self. Joy is faithful, the pilot light that is sourced by Grace and never entirely extinguished in the God-loved soul. Its blue fire burns hottest in sustaining such readiness, because it rests so near to its invisible Source.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Live past the point of tears, into the regions of Joy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happiness means to be in harmony with what happens.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One cannot always be happy, for horrid things happen</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in regions of the pursuit and practice of happiness.</span></span></div>
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On his shirt there is a silver medal with an imprint of a bear's paw, a gift from the eponymous bears of Bern, Switzerland in thanks for a donation to their arboreal new home when we visited them in 1994 on a painter's and poet's pilgrimage to Paris, the Loire Valley and Bern, where my traveling companions Julia Barkley and her sister had friends. Below the medal is a Russian lacquer pin from St. Petersburg, given to me soon after my own personal pilgrimage there in 1992, when I buried a photograph of my mother as a girl in Russia at the tombstone of the great composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, symbolically returning her to her Motherland. My friends (priest) Ted and (deacon) Penny Berktold had been to Russia and said that it reminded them of my prayerpoem, "Bakerwoman God." Click on the image to see it enlarged for a better look. You'll be able to view all the images on this page while you're there. To return here, click on the black border on either side of the central image. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(The poem is in the lower section of these pages:) <a href="http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/p/philadelphia-ordinations-and-what.html">http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/p/philadelphia-ordinations-and-what.html</a> or <a href="http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/p/consecration-rt-rev-mariann-budde.html">http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/p/consecration-rt-rev-mariann-budde.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><b>Bakerwoman God</b><br /> <br /> Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread.<br /> Strong, brown Bakerwoman God,<br /> I am your low, soft and being-shaped loaf.<br /> <br /> I am your rising bread,<br /> well-kneaded by some divine<br /> and knotty pair of knuckles,<br /> by your warm earth hands.<br /> I am bread well-kneaded.<br /> <br /> Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God,<br /> put me in your own bright fire.<br /> I am warm, warm as you from fire.<br /> I am white and gold, soft and hard,<br /> brown and round. I am so warm from fire.<br /> <br /> Break me, Bakerwoman God.<br /> I am broken under your caring Word.<br /> Drop me in your special juice in pieces.<br /> Drop me in your blood.<br /> Drunken me in the great red flood.<br /> Self-giving chalice, swallow me.<br /> My skin shines in the divine wine.<br /> My face is cup-covered and I drown.<br /> <br /> I fall up, in a red pool in a gold world<br /> where your warm sunskin hand is there<br /> to catch and hold me.<br /> Bakerwoman God, remake me.<br /> <br /> Alla Renée Bozarth<br /> <br /><b> Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey</b> 1978, 1988<br /><b> Moving to the Edge of the World,</b> iUniverse 2000.<br /><b> This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart,</b> iUniverse 2004.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>allabozarthwordsandimages.b<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>logspot.com/</a><br /> <br />
To listen to the musical composition of "Bakerwoman God" by retired
Northern Illinois University professor of music, Tim Blickhan,
performed by the Augustana College Jenny Lind Vocal Ensemble, Michael
Zemek, director, on All Saints Day 2013~ <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3nrh3kt1a03u6q7/2012+Bakerwoman+God.mp3" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.mediafire.com/listen/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>3nrh3kt1a03u6q7/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>2012+Bakerwoman+God.mp3</a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Light wisps low over Earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before Jesus was his mother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before supper in the upper room,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the Passover Feast, a feeding trough.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here, the altar of Earth, fair linens of hay and seed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his cry, her cry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his sweat of blood, her bleeding and tears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his offering, hers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the breaking of bread and death,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The wise ones knelt to hear</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the woman’s word in wonder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her spark of God in the form of a babe,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she said: “Receive and let your hearts be healed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and your lives be filled with love, for</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is my body, This is my blood.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; text-align: start;"> This is the most authentic re-enactment version you will ever see and hear of the event. In this showing, even the Wise Ones "who came bearing gifts from afar" made it on time. And I, for once in my life, am early. . . . If the miracle of birth always fills you with awe and makes you weep, as it does with me, through all shown, you will weep. Never mind getting the details of the story right. We'll never be able to manage that. The wonderment is right.</span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; margin: 0px 1px; text-align: start;"><span class="_6qdm" color="transparent" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tca/1.5/16/1f339.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🌹</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: start;"><b>the agony of Mother Mary's labor, Papa Joseph's tenderness in being overcome by joy~ </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: start;"><b>Mary the priest bringing forth the Word of God </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391057469788_8879">On Christmas Eve in 1906, <span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391057469788_8878">the first radio program was broadcast</span>.
Canadian-born Professor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden sent his signals from the
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391057469788_10420">Christmas Eve Now Coming </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Light in the Darkness is coming your way . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">extending through time~lusciously, luminously </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">making all things well again . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Patience, then, as the saints have known, whose stories</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">enlarge us all, the saint in every rock and stone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">every drop of blood and every hidden bone~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the saint in each soul’s original core, born</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or not born into a world woven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of wonders and woes. . .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the names of those gone are many, the names of the living
are more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">kin to us, still in travail, yearning, preparing for births
of our own</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into Paradise, for the precincts of
Time grow weak and thin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">against the leaning of our lives, so full, so fraught </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with tragic elements and fine comedies and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sheer slapstick, falling down zany </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">weather, and all the tedious</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sameness in between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the highs and lows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of our common </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ground.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Which proves, when told, that the universe, even</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to infinity, is not large enough to hold all our stories,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we must by turns move on as our stories outgrow </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their small plot of land in this world, where we took on </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bodies and sequence and the burden of linear events </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and stages of growth and decline~ of too young for this <br clear="none" />and then too old for that~ and finally have become ready</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to take their place </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the timeless, borderless</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">realms of Beyond.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We dive forward and find ourselves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">deeply within as never before.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we pass past the galaxies,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stars die with us and new stars</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are born. And so we, old according</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to our species’ allotments, die gently</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">enough if so blessed, and are reborn, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to accompany the infant stars </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into a new Paradise.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The music begins . . . my heart opens . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my spirit softens, turns into rivers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pours into waterfalls from the craggy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cataracts of skull around my eyes, and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">below them the soul blooms. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time cannot contain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">these gardens.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">visit each other and . . . the babes jump for joy</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wish I knew who the artist was . . .</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thank you, Artist~ </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">message sent on on the Great Communion telegraph system.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Same goes for this magnificent icon~</span></span></b><br />
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Noche de Rábanos, the Night of the Radishes, and the <i><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388203598003_4165 yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34619" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388191606096_38302">zócalo</span></i> (public square) will become the
scene of a huge exhibition of figures carved from radishes. These are not the
familiar little round vegetables that are eaten in salads — these are heavy,
long, contorted roots that grow up to two feet in length and can weigh as much
as 10 pounds. For three days, artists will have been transforming their freshly
dug radishes into religious tableaux and village scenes, historical events and
mythical tales. There will be animals and saints and conquistadors, the Virgin
Mary and infant Jesus, and even the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34622" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_35">“The origin of this festival is unknown,
although historians have noted that vendors in the Christmas Eve markets in
Oaxaca would decorate their stands with radish figures embellished with other
vegetables and that housewives would seek out the most interesting to buy for
their Christmas tables. In 1897, the mayor of </span><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34623" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_40">Oaxaca</span><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388203598003_4170 yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34624" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_43"> inaugurated the first official Night of the
Radishes, and it has since become a unique and important part of Christmas in
that city.” </span><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388203598003_4170 yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34624" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_43"><i id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388191606096_38305">The Writer’s </i></span><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34627" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_43"><i id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388191606096_38305"><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388203598003_4170 yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34629" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_43"><i id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388191606096_38305">Almanac</i>, </span><span class="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388203598003_4173 yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388794788154_34631" id="yiv2903304130yui_3_13_0_ym1_13_1388191606096_48">December 23, 2013</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Not being very imaginative,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I depend on the outside</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br />world to give me material<br />for inspiration, in other words,<br />something to write about,<br />and as often as possible,<br />celebrate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Tonight, for instance,<br />being Christmas Eve eve,<br />I’ll expect the customary<br />visitation of the stirring companions,<br />Not-a-Creature and Not-Even, a mouse,<br />forerunners of rustlings in the chimney—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but beyond that, contemplating the fact<br />that in a city beyond the border of my country<br />in the southern portion of this northern<br />continent, people are celebrating<br />the Night of the Radishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">displaying their lovingly grown, dug and carved<br />five-to-ten pound long root vegetables unlike their puny,<br />round, northern cousins by the same family name, and<br />children will be admiring the artistry of their mothers<br />and fathers and aunts and uncles and grandparents<br />all, as they inhale a steaming plate of tacos fresh<br />from the oven and see the colored candle lights’<br />shifting shadows on the centerpiece<br />radish nativity scene~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Mamacita Maria, Papi José and Bebé Jésus,<br />lifting his tiny hand to touch the radish root from<br />whence he bravely came as earth from earth,<br />this cold and holy night of nights, to inspire<br />fractious siblings to sing in rare harmony together,<br />practicing for the day of days when they will get it right<br />worldwide, and be always kind and generous toward<br />each other and all others, creatures great and small,<br />whose worthiness is beside the point of a generous<br />and loving Creator, Whose most passionate thought<br />is to love them all, no matter what bad decisions<br />they might make for themselves, until they finally learn<br />to love themselves and the world with true and equal dignity.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reverent radish artists are unknown.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>is by Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fully human baby among the unusual madonna and child diad images below is Nicholas Robatcek, grandson of Joan and Jim Kimble, during his baptism a few decades ago. His grandmother tells me that on Christmas Eve, 2013, he became engaged to be married while on a skiing trip in the western states mountains, where he is a summertime firefighter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Moon and tree branch with mountain images below them as well as tree, river, flowers and deer pictures are from my backyard, and Mt. Hood with branch over Sandy River Canyon and pastures image is from the viewpoint on Bluff Road near my home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other images on this page~ the Hubble camera's celestial icons </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and members of other species (including fairy babe)~ are from the Web.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">a coven of bees glistening </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">from the sweet Queen’s body—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">is a human child in the African plain, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">in a </span><span style="color: black;">New York</span><span style="color: black;"> alley, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">is you, is me, each one </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">not less worthy </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of adoration and praise— </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">for God born in every living </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">new beginning needs the same </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">nurture of loving kindness </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">to grow strong and happily </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">into its true Self.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> Diamond Chrysalis with Sapphire Eye~</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> Star Nebula resembling an Earthling's embryo!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> . . . or something from the ocean . . . </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the luminous Transfiguration of Christ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because of the bird's tendency suddenly to display its tail fanned out, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all "eyes" showing as if open wide in iridescent purple to viridian green. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This albino would be an Easter animal to rival the bunny as well! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Further down you'll see a bird that could represent the Divine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Human natures of Christ. Its apparent hybridization seems</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">very mysterious indeed . . . from living colors to the color of unbroken Light. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the beginning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of World War I,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">custom of calling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an unofficial Christmas </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">truce was still practiced</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the century before,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was standard protocol.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the last known occasion </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was Christmas Eve, 1914, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their trenches and sing carols.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they joined in the singing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soon, they all climbed out of the war</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a few hours and met in person,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">exchanging gifts of whiskey</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and cigarettes. In one area,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of this upset the British</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">military hierarchy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The following year it ended</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with officers commanding air </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bombardment right through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the holy night and days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">familiar with the enemy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so the tradition was killed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Still, soldiers had taken the night off to sing in peace as
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of organized destruction, for the human soul needs
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more than fear and ego need war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Up and down the fighting lines, people had shown</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it’s possible to practice human kindness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Stille Nacht! Heilige
Nacht! Alles schläft, einsam wacht.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">You come out of eternity hungry for existence, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">but you don’t know what it means.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Everything assaults your newborn senses.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Your eyes feel too small to drink a whole moon,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">a rainbow, your grand-mother’s face—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">your mouth adores milk and you can’t taste it </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">enough, so sweet the liquid love pouring </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">into you, responding to your insistent draw.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Your ears want more of that voice, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">the song drifting on air waves.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">When your skin is touched, you coo and instantly </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">compose your own symphony.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">And all the smells that surround your body </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and come out of your body are a cacophony</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of over-whelming wonders.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Slowly you comprehend,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">then, the distinctions of the senses. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Your <i>sensorium</i> begins to stretch, to hold </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">the coming‑in marvels of the world </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and being alive.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">And one day you discover you love </span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">someone whose face you have learned, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and when you look into that face you know </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">you have arrived, because your mind is satisfied </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and your eyes feel beautiful, like fingers touching </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">a photo of your heart’s true home.</span></span></span></div>
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God, Tears of Joy God</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today someone sent me a portrait of God the Grumpy Geezer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I did not think much of it, except, “Poor Guy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Looks like God’s kids don’t call <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and the pension check doesn’t <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">cover much of anything. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He’d probably have road rage behind the wheel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I used to just dismiss the fellow, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">no matter how much good press he gets from <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God-knows-who, given the way he’s said to treat <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">his friends, and foes need not apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He’s been shown too long and too much as a big bad version<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of humanity’s worst traits: immature, petty, spiteful,
judgmental,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">sulking, mean-spirited and downright violent, not to mention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">prone to child abuse. God is Love is Right, but this is no
portrait<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of the Real God I know and love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That wonderful Jewish Rabbi Yeshua who showed so much<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">divine transparency has been treated badly, too, made out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to be the Palestine Pansy when he’s really so direct it’s
daunting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Judge not or you’ll be judged,” he said, but most people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ignore that and judge away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’m taking a turn of conscience today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I feel so bad for the persona in this postcard picture of
him <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">on my kitchen counter that I’ve decided to spend <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">some time cheering him up. First, I’d bake him some cookies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">which is really something because I’m no baker. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Better make him a cherry crisp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I can do that! I’ll whip up my special whipped cream <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with vanilla and orange extracts to go with it and watch him
purr <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">when he smells it fresh from the oven and gets a look <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">at the beautiful pie cherry color, then takes his first bite
of it <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with a big dollop of vanilla orange whipped cream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After that he’ll feel relaxed, and I’ll start telling him
jokes~ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the penguin joke is good, but maybe he’s heard it too often.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lena and Ole are always winners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Then I’ll give him a blanket and show him the chaise <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the spring garden so he can take a nap under <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the cherry tree and inhale lilacs and roses, and drift off <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to the lullaby of water falling over rocks and birdsongs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll tell the birds to keep their serenade melodious and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">gentle, not as raucous as it sometimes gets around here. . .
.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll bet he hasn’t had a time like this in millennia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After awhile I’ll wake him up with a big loud kiss <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">on his furrowed forehead. I’ll ask him to tell me his
dreams. . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ll listen with all my heart. Then I’ll ask how the Beautiful
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lady I know as God is. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I do just that, and God’s husband says, “She cries tears of
joy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and empathy every day, which doesn’t look or sound happy, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but she says they’re way past happiness into feelings <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">she can only express in a river of love. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“She says there is all the anguish of the world in them, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">getting bathed and balmed, all the things she can’t prevent <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">because of the way the universe is made with every creature <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">freely becoming itself, everything mixed in and tumbling, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but we love it all the more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“She tells me I need to step back and let people hear her <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">firm but gentler voice. They seem to relate better to her. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She is breathtakingly beautiful, that’s a fact.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“She reminds me that fire is our firstborn child, the stuff <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">we used for the stars, that water came next, and air, then <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the dark matter of space, and finally things cooled and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">settled here and there, in space pockets of places, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to make the most interesting forms, some of them <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">teeming with life, like yours. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Of course, I know all this. We did it together <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and are still doing it, and anyway, we don’t really look
like this, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but you humans seem to relate best to those you understand, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">so you make us over into your own image in your minds, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that’s how we come out in art.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Even this business of “We” is strictly human. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You, We and I are the same here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This whole conversation is just for your benefit, Child,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but I’m enjoying it, too. You had a good point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We went along with your ancestors and overdid that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God the Father image, and look what happened. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Men behaving badly, thinking they’re being ‘godly,’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">lording it over everything and referring to me as ‘Lord,’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">too. Do they think I’m an Englishman and a member <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of the Peerage? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Now there’s a rowdy bunch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What goes on in the House of Lords <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">would never pass for <st1:place w:st="on">Paradise</st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Well, Honey, Thanks for the great afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’d better go see what your Mama God wants me to do <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">for her. Maybe we’ll show up together in a beautiful flower <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in your garden tomorrow, and see if We/I/You can do <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">something to help that sick silk tree of yours. It’s already
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">bloomed for you for 30 years past its life expectancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“But you and the tree love and appreciate each other <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">so it sticks around, even diseased and wounded, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">forgetting its suffering for love and letting your <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">grateful tears of joy water its roots <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">as deep as deep can be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Thanks for shedding them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mama God loves you for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So do I. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I’m not really such a bad guy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I really am full of love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That’s all I am, really,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but love is big as Infinity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and has so many forms,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">also to Infinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I hope humans in general really, really get that, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and inspired young or old painters keep on painting me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">as other things besides themselves or others on a bad day <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">or in a sappy mood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Here in the garden with you, sharing my dreams <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with a good listener, I’m feeling some tears of joy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of my own coming on. Maybe it’ll rain soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Grandma God, now she’s the real gardener.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She says, ‘Gramps, you’re an old fraud pretending <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">not to understand about feelings sometimes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When you let them come, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">your tears make beautiful
rainbows.’ ” </span> </p>
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Renée Bozarth</i></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Frequencies of
Sound</b>, copyright 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The silk mimosa over rhododendron and roses in the front
yard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">was not expected to live beyond the usual fifteen years when
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<p class="MsoNormal">I came here so many years ago, and the tree was already </p><p class="MsoNormal">ten
years old. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When it was nearly twenty, it was growing so rapidly </p><p class="MsoNormal">and
generously that it broke its heart with flowers </p><p class="MsoNormal">one day in a downpour.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Half the tree covered all of the grass, separated </p><p class="MsoNormal">and gone
to green for good. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A huge gash of a wound healed to a tarry scar, </p><p class="MsoNormal">and an
immense curl of strong scar tissue </p><p class="MsoNormal">protectively encircled the old exposed
injury.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, twenty-four years later, it is going strong at more
than twice <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">its predicted life span, and no one is allowed to tell it
so, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but only, Live On! watered with love and gratitude <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and praise down to its deeply receptive roots.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But what really keeps it alive, I think, is its own divine
fragrance, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that every summer draws hundreds of hummingbirds </p><p class="MsoNormal">to take up
residence among the delicate, honey-scented flowers.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And they do not sing when they are at home, </p><p class="MsoNormal">these small
wonder birds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They talk! On and on they chatter, </p><p class="MsoNormal">with amazing voices that
are not music <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but plain and unmistakable conversation. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">They play together
by twos <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in loops and lusty leaps, dive bombing the roses, </p><p class="MsoNormal">then going
back to sip on those pink silk, feathery fan flowers, </p><p class="MsoNormal">where they get
high until, by noon, they are so drunk with love </p><p class="MsoNormal">for this tree that they encircle
it with a great,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">green and gold and bright pink hummingbird hug. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They rest all afternoon, passed out on its branches, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">leaning their heads on its leaves, still chattering to each
other <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in their dreams, with voices relentless as wings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The tree sways gently beneath these fairylike birds <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and sprouts another hundred buds, shedding its feathers <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and leaves all over the grass to make more room.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Noisy? you ask. Messy! you say. </p><p class="MsoNormal">And I say, when you love
someone <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you don’t mind the mess so much, </p><p class="MsoNormal">and that is not noise but
speech, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and soon I will have listened long enough </p><p class="MsoNormal">to be able myself to converse among them, </p><p class="MsoNormal">and help the silk tree to live for a
hundred years.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">The perfect mother</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">we seek in our lovers </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and friends of either sex—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">the nurturing caregiver </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">who embraces, accepts, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">comforts and adores us </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">(or God-in-us).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">The perfect father</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">we seek in our colleagues </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and mentors of both sexes—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">the challenging protector</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">who gives structure and safety, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">teaches, inspires</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and is proud of us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">In those remarkable</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">moments when they marry </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">inside us, we are whole. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Alla Ren</span></i><i>ée</i><i><span style="color: black;"> Bozarth</span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Love's Alchemy</b><i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Contribution</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In case you need </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to hear it again—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">life is short</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and uncertain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You won’t have</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">many chances,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">maybe today’s are it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so ask questions</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and say what you mean.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Look up words and names</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and learn more about them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Say them out loud, and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">throw a party for the people</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who impress you by </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thinking about them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a visible smile.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leave a trail of poems</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">behind you, scatter some</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">randomly around~ tell everyone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the animals, plants and elements,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about their incredible courage,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and introduce the world</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to its own loveliness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a gift you’ll be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">giving, what a magnificent</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">contribution!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Happy Birthday, Life! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Feast of the Incarnation of the Living Word— </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the poetry of the universe~ Quasars, Pulsars and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Quarks with their color superconductors of strong interaction—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into ghostly Neutrinos and Supernova Stars, into Dark Matter and Dark Energy and the ever-newborn galaxies, into imagination and images, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into music and words, into dance and into receptive silence—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Feast of the Incarnation of the Principles of Birth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life, Passion and Death, and of the Dynamics of Resurrection—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now we celebrate anticipation of your birthday, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that holiest </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">day of days, the birthday of being and time, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when, as if still coiled </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the germ seed of Creation, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as if as yet an unaware ion of an atom </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the egg sack </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of Creation in the mind of the Divine Mother, yearning</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be born, we quiver, and sensing the meaning, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we explode into glorious </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being in all the beauty </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and splendor of being alive—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forth we come, millions by millions, amorphous, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">swimming in ether, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">dreaming of color and </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">breaking into being out of the dream, leaping</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over each other in eager exploration, deciding </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each one what kind </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of atom to become, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">what shape of molecule to form, what type</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of cell to shape, what larger body to form . . . </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Blessed Possibilities—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And each particle is beautiful, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each atom is beautiful, each molecule </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">is beautiful, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">each cell is beautiful, the whirlpool galaxies are beautiful,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the planets are beautiful, our planet is beautiful, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the heavenly bodies </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">are beautiful, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our bodies are beautiful, all of You, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Living Christ, </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">All of You is Beautiful </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on this day of Your birth which now has begun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And each time a new atom is born, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the whole of it is born again— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And how lovely it is to be a soul </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">budding and blooming, dying</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and budding and blooming again </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">every day, every hour— </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore on this perpetual, eternally now </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feast and Festival of Incarnation, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to each one and all, Happy Birthday </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">again and again and again! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Note~</b>This paean blessing was inspired by the<i> </i><b>Akathist of Thanksgiving: </b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Glory to God for All Things</b><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, </i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">composed for the Russian Orthodox liturgy </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by Metropolitan Archbishop Tryphon (Prince Boris Petrovich Turkestanov) </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">shortly before his death in 1934. From the Akathist:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2556">O [God], how lovely it is
to be Thy guest. Breeze full of scents; mountains reaching to the skies; waters
like boundless mirrors, reflecting the sun's golden rays and the scudding
clouds. All nature murmurs mysteriously, breathing the depth of tenderness.
Birds and beasts of the forest bear the imprint of Thy love. Blessed art thou,
mother earth, in thy fleeting loveliness, which wakens our yearning for
happiness that will last for ever, in the land where, amid beauty that grows
not old, the cry rings out: Alleluia! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2510">Thou hast brought me into
life as into an enchanted paradise. We have seen the sky like a chalice of
deepest blue, where in the azure heights the birds are singing. We have
listened to the soothing murmur of the forest and the melodious music of the
streams. We have tasted fruit of fine flavour and the sweet-scented honey. We
can live very well on Thine earth. It is a pleasure to be Thy guest. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506">Glory to Thee for the
Feast Day of life<br />
Glory to Thee for the perfume of lilies and roses<br />
Glory to Thee for each different taste of berry and fruit<br />
Glory to Thee for the sparkling silver of early morning dew<br />
Glory to Thee for the joy of dawn's awakening<br />
Glory to Thee for the new life each day brings<br />
Glory to Thee, O God, from age to age </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"><a href="http://www.saintjonah.org/services/thanksgiving.htm">www.saintjonah.org/services/thanksgiving.htm</a> </span></span></span></div><div id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2499"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506">Though note that the attribution to the priest Gregory Petrov who died in a concentration camp in World War II</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> is inaccurate, for now it is believed that he knew and prayed this Akathist by Archbishop Tryphon and</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> made it known to others, but was himself a secondary source. There are thirteen Kontakions in this Akathist, each with an Ikos. Akathist is the Greek word</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> used in Russian liturgy to mean a hymn dedicated to a particular saint, event, or member of the Holy Trinity.</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> It means literally "not sitting," for like most of the Orthodox liturgy it is sung as an act of prayer while standing.</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> The Kontakion is the particular form of the hymn as a chant, literally meaning "pole" to refer to the scroll (rolled around the pole) on</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> which the sacred song is written. <i>Ikos, </i>literally"relevant to," simply means a shorter hymn echoing the meaning</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389865360781_2506"> of the longer Kontakion. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">"After the start of the First World War,
Bishop Tryphon saw active service in the army on the Yulyn front where
he suffered shell-shock. He had to return to Moscow, his health
shattered. In 1916, Bishop Tryphon retired to the New Jerusalem
Resurrection Monastery outside Moscow. He again visited the front but
returned to the same monastery in 1917." </span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=26481.0">http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=26481.0</a></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The title, "Glory to God for All Things," is "from the words of St. <a href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom">John Chrysostom</a> as he was dying in exile. It is a song of praise from amidst the most terrible sufferings." <a href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Akathist"> orthodoxwiki.org/Akathist</a>
{See "Other Akathists" on that page.}I read his hymn on Thanksgiving Night and wrote this then, on the cusp of Advent and in anticipation of the Birthday of the Mystical Body of Christ, Creation Itself, which we celebrate in our commemoration of the birthday of the human infant Yeshua, Christ in our midst as a helpless babe, and also Christ as Cosmic Starfire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><b>“We can live very well on Thine Earth. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="rg_ctlv">the heart-beat of Invisible Light whose precise pulsations of energy</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="rg_ctlv">and to all creatures</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="rg_ctlv">in the dark heavens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of deep and low</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the bare skin of Earth, to grass or sand or rock,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to brown beds awaiting their greens and their splendor of colors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will hear it, the low thrum of time marking its measures,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like the metronome that marks the music for the human being</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who practices finger-sung sound at the piano</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">go out under the stars and look up, listen~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Great Om is there, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the high night, the primeval echoes of light from giant Quasars,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the steady, precise magnetic beams of Pulsars, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lighthouses in the high regions </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sending us signals of Yes, of Presence, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pulse points of the Universe~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cosmic Heart of high heaven~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their song is Om, the Original Sound~</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the syllable of Being,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> with threefold lullabies of Peace, Peace, Peace</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in softer, softer sounds </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Shanti, Shanti, Shanti </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rejoice because they see you in all your blindness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they signal to the pulse of God thrumming inside you~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Om</b><b> Shanti Shanti Shanti </b><b>Om</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="rg_ctlv">Cycle of pulsed gamma rays from the Vela Pulsar~</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="rg_ctlv">O! Star of Wonder, Star of Night, </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="rg_ctlv">Star with Royal Beauty bright . . .</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="rg_ctlv">Westward leading, still proceeding,</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="rg_ctlv"><b>Guide us to thy perfect Light.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Listen to 5 minutes of pure bliss, music by Morten Lauridsen, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">words by James Agee,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sure On this Shining Night</b>:</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wishing you starshowers of blessings. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyH9epNNx4g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyH9epNNx4g</a></span></div>
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Sure On This Shining Night - Morten Lauridsen, composer and pianist</span></div>
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Sure on this shining night of star-made shadows round,<br />
kindness must watch for me this side the ground,<br />
on this shining night, this shining night<br />
Sure on this shining night of star-made shadows round,<br />
kindness must watch for me this side the ground,<br />
on this shining night, this shining night<br />
The late year lies down the north<br />
All is healed, all is health<br />
High summer holds the earth, hearts all whole<br />
The late year lies down the north<br />
All is healed, all is health<br />
High summer holds the earth, hearts all whole<br />
Sure on this shining night,<br />
sure on this shining, shining night<br />
Sure on this shining night<br />
I weep for wonder wand'ring far alone<br />
Of shadows on the stars<br />
Sure on this shining night, this shining night<br />
On this shining night, this shining night<br />
Sure on this shining night</span></div>
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Writer(s): James Agee, Morten Lauridsen<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Note on the pictures: Baptism picture was taken</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by a godparent; silk mimosa and camellia pictures from my garden</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as well as Mt. Hood, the Columbia River Gorge and the deer with pear tree</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">& wildflowers with angel of light in my pasture were taken by me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> All other images are from the Internet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>An Adaptation of the Serenity Prayer</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13100"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13099"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13098">God grant me the
serenity <br clear="none" />
to accept the difficult things which I cannot change; <br clear="none" />
courage to change those which I can;<br clear="none" />
and wisdom to know the difference<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_14867">~</span> </span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101">living one day
at a time; <br clear="none" />
breathing through one moment at a time; <br clear="none" />
accepting hardships as<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_8_1391819952116_37"> a</span> pathway to peace,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101">both in offering them to Divine Power</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101">and practicing the cooperative work </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101">of transformation; <br clear="none" />
taking, as Christ did, this beautiful, broken world<br clear="none" />
as it is, not as I would have it; <br clear="none" />
trusting that God will make all things right</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101">through the workings of redemption;<br clear="none" />
and that the impossible things will be made whole,<br clear="none" /><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_16089">in<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_16088"> forms better imagined by the Creator than by us</span></span>.<br clear="none" /> And so may we be reasonably happy in this life </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101">and supremely happy</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13103"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13102"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391819952116_13101"> in the next.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_8_1391819952116_58"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've made only a few changes. Where Niebuhr <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">writes "enjoying" I write "breathing through," for the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">re are countless moments one cannot enjoy but <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can best endure by focusing on the miraculous act of breathing in and out, a major and entirely unconscious accomplishment<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for survival.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_8_1391819952116_58"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To see N<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iebu<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hr's original te<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xt, go here:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Images are of my road, car, mimosa tree (with snowbear), </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Shauna, the horse across Coalman Road who teaches </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Star Sermon</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
. . . and the silent receptivity <br />
between each sound<br />
made by astonished tears <br />
and mind's opening—<br />
revelations of why we exist— <br />
for nothing less than to discover<br />
empathic resonance among all beings </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Walking on a quiet country
road this winter night beneath the stars, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all clear except for fog
puffs of warm breath entering cold air, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my human eyes are compelled
to look up at dots of bright lights, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">shining out from their thick,
velvety black cold sky. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A curled feather moon has
ripened into a crescent boat, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">floating the infinite seas of
space and night. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The singing happens
spontaneously, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the words now in English, and I hear them as for the
first time, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if reading them from lyrics written in the heavens, not
the first </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">line or the impossibly soaring chorus, just </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Long lay the world in
sin and error pining, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">‘Till he appeared and the soul </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">felt its worth—”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Striking into sense after a lifetime of
hearing </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">only the beauty and not the meaning! </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So simply this homely event
happens— </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Humanity pines in sin and
error until </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a crowded-out child is born
in a barn, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a light appears, and suddenly
the human </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soul feels its own worth! </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Child is the Light. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The miracle of birth breaks
into space and time </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">during Earth Time’s unlikely
period of friendliness to Life,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and in the far out Cosmos, an
infant galaxy is born. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Virgin Mary had a baby
boy,</i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Virgin Mary had a baby
boy,</i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Virgin Mary had a baby
boy,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and they say that his name
is Jesus.</i></span></span></div>
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<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But this Jewish Palestinian
couple, this new mother and father, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their baby a Hebrew name that
sounds like a long deep sigh— </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yeshua</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The prophet Isaiah centuries
before said that a luminous child </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would be named Emmanuel, which means,
God [is] with us, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the angel Gabriel told mother Miriam to name
her child this, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and while she kept “God with us” in her heart
for courage, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she listened to the angel—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine the sound of an
angel’s sigh in your ear and the feel </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of an angel’s sigh on your skin
. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after giving her baby life,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she gave him the name of
Yeshua.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Call for him later when he
becomes a growing boy or a man,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a rabbi or Messiah, and it
sounds like “Yesh-Waaah!”— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sound of shouting to God
when in need of help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Living Flame of Love we
call by our million names</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the Divine breathed forth
the spark of mortal life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into a helpless infant one
chilly, eternal spring night,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the holiness of every
fragile newborn being</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all Creation became clear
to all, very and simply clear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And everyone without
exception, every self-loathing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">criminal or insecure orphan,
every homeless person and every </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rich man or woman, every
common working class woman or man </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and every child and every
weed and every wonder remembered her or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his or its own origin:
fragile, small, of no particular significance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hungry for existence and
clueless about its or his or her own nature, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and deeply, deeply holy, and
deeply, deeply lovable to the Divine Mind </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that dreamed each soul into
matter, into Being, and loved it into Here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And still today the miracle
of Christmas Eve or Morning or Night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at any time of the year
happens when the soul looks up, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sees a small light, and feels Divine Love and its
own </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">infinite worth in a humbling star.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May all beings born in Creation
grow up and thrive, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">grow old and die, still able
to hear </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God’s murmuring stars. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The Frequencies of Sound</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Copyright 2011.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Listen to 5 minutes of pure bliss, music by Morten Lauridsen, words by James Agee,<b> Sure On this Shining Night</b></span></span></div>
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Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-18158961502431415772011-12-05T15:08:00.004-08:002021-03-01T08:14:36.146-08:00First Word~Fresh Eyes and Beginner's Mind<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b><span class="rg_ctlv"><a class="rg_hl" href="http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox&hs=LBb&sa=X&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&biw=832&bih=549&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=WusN-p5f2WQRKM:&imgrefurl=http://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/hummingbird-sex.htm&docid=5VN0qEnUcmWrSM&imgurl=http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/hummingbird-sex-1.jpg&w=400&h=267&ei=U-YbT5iWNLPJiQKa0rngCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=324&vpy=19&dur=1500&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=139&ty=116&sig=104202859905484077967&page=1&tbnh=96&tbnw=119&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0" id="rg_hl" style="height: 183px; width: 275px;"><img alt="" class="rg_hi" data-height="183" data-width="275" height="183" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTZh2EN9XNpgCweAiZvUvRz2qKPxjo0hGL45Ycw4KGeE5uxIwP9g" style="height: 183px; width: 275px;" width="275" /></a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wisdom and Wonderment</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A friend asked what I meant by beginner's mind in "First Word." My answer-in-process is below. I used to enjoy practicing deliberate forgetfulness so that I could see a beloved movie or read a beloved book or poem over and over again for the first time. I don't have to practice any more! It's a gift of the older, overflowing mind which has accumulated so much material to store that locating any of it is increasingly complicated. . . . No worries. More pleasure of (re)discovery in the search process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">beginner's mind is seeing with fresh eyes and hearing with
fresh ears, and paradoxically receiving everything with innocence through
a lens of experience and wisdom</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><br />
<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the poem shows how to awaken the senses and break free of
assumptions~</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000;"><br />
it means forfeiting the greatest obstacle to learning, which is the
assumption that one already knows, and the greatest obstacle to experiencing
the familiar, which is psychic numbing by means of the attitude, 'i've
seen/heard/read/written/done that already.' see the sunset? i've seen one . . .
and so on. </span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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<b><i>the poem is an awakening, an opening of one's mind and senses to see
and hear life as if for the first time</i></b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000;"><br />
having a willingness to come to your senses as a newborn each day . . . to
experience the quiet wonders of everyday life, the gift of being full of
wonder~ to read old things as if for the first time, and to forget that you are
afraid, and therefore to invite the inner critic simply to be still and savor
the moments, and value effort while practicing effortlessness, leaving
revisions for another time</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
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beginner's mind practices the art of wonderment and gives thanks with calm
happiness or exuberant joy, or reacts empathically with an immediacy that is
free of prior associations, creating new perspectives and insights in the
process, like turning the image of what one sees upside down and tracing its
lines and curves with one's finger, to feel the flow of each movement's shape and
let the thing reveal itself as it is, before allowing one to interpret it
through a cloudy lens of limited personal experience, and when one no longer
can name it, turning it right side up again and looking at it with a new
"aha!"</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>First Word</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This is the practice of Beginner’s Mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Every day you wake up and it is your first day of existence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You do not remember that in your sleep you cried out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">your unconscious expletive: <i>Help!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not yet knowing where you are, you rise</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from Night, stretch, stand and move toward the window</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">or open the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You look out and see the world for the first time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">lay your eyes on your first tree, a budding flower,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">an open bloom, and green grass or brown earth, or perhaps</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">gray pavement on which kids down the street are playing softball.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then from somewhere you hear a piano sending forth the sound</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of Gershwin, Chopin or Brahms, and it is the first music you have ever heard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You breathe in the scent of grass, of coffee, of cedar, and it is your first</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">experience of fragrance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You feel the sunlight touching your face, the sensation of rain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">or the kiss of a snowflake, and it is the first time your skin feels a caress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And you stand still to breathe, and it is your first breath</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and first moment of astonished awareness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And then you blink and open your eyes wider</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and speak your first word</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and first prayer—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wow!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mama writes: "Flowers" . . . "Ecstatic"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In the summertime, Grandma and Grandpa </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">loved to play cards with Aunt Martha and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I watched and drank lemonade and honey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">One Sunday afternoon, it was Uncle Tom’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He said he’d show me Aunt Martha’s grapevines,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Pick one, Baby,” he said, and with one tug</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">it was free and into my open mouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Oh! What sweetness! What flavor! What glee!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Two more stuffed in, and then I said,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“I want to pick Aunt Martha some.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Good thing I had my pink plastic purse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">strapped across my chest for such things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I filled it until it would barely close.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After awhile, we went back inside.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and spat in his spittoon, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the good grapes, ripe to perfection.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Grandma poured more lemonade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I forgot about my gift to Aunt Martha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It must have been some days or weeks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">later when Mama noticed my pink purse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">turning purple. What she thought</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">when she opened it she did not say.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In later years, she said I once collected</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the best, ripest grapes from the vineyard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">for a very special family communion wine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It was a Sunday to remember.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mama was afraid of germs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">She knew they could make people sick,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">especially fragile babies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Back then, people didn’t know </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">kids needed to eat a little dirt </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">when their sandwiches fell into the sand~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to give their immune systems something</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to fight, and make them strong, a good </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">workout in the immune gym </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">for the boxer genes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I was Mama’s first and only child, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and she was older than most mothers, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">perhaps more anxious and fretful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, one day Papa brought home </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a rubber duck for my bathwater playmate. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mama said, “First, I will sterilize him.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Into the boiling pot poor Ducky went. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mama watched and stirred, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and after a suitably sterile time, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">she turned off the heat and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">pulled my duck out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of his steaming first bath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Poor Duck!” she cried in horror. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">By then, I’d crawled into the kitchen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I saw him, drooped in her thickly </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">gloved hands. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I reached up to meet him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He looked all right to me! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All bright yellow and cheery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mama blew her own love germs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">on him to cool him,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and off we three went </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to our first bath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ducky must have been glad </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">for cool water!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I was glad for Ducky. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I thought he was beautiful,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and a very good swimmer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He floated circles around me~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">one foot to the side of him </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and one foot beneath, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">they seemed very fine paddles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">His head was every-which-way </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and bobbing around~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">one eye on my one open wide eye, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">one eye on my feet or the ceiling,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">grinning as curious as me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mama looked unsure, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">her lips slightly parted,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a small scowl on her forehead, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">as if she expected disaster. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What was wrong? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Did she think he’d drown?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not with me to watch out for him! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ducky and I paddled around</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">together like that for years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Of course, after a few, I realized</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">he’d had a mishap, and Mama </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">explained to me what <i>had</i>
happened, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">which made me love him all the more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After all, I’d had an accident too, and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">it gave me a droopy eye of my own, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">so I wasn’t perfect either.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“I think you’re <i>beautiful,</i>
Ducky,” I said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“I think <i>you’re</i> <i>beautiful,</i>” said Mama to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> God’s Knees </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I feel like a little kid</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">lost in the department store or circus, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">desperately trying to find God’s knees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All I can see is a confusing kaleidoscope</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of hodgepodge colors, people’s pant legs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">or skirt hems and shoes and bare skin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">They all look like they’re lost, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then I feel a tug on my arm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In my desperation I forgot that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Someone was holding my hand. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I look up and see my little hand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tucked into a large and well-worn hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a rough worker’s hand, competent and strong, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">but gentle too, and smooth where it holds onto mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I follow that big hand up a huge, muscular arm,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">all the way to its shoulders, and there I see this</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">amazing face, old and young at the same time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">rough and smooth and pink and brown with all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the rainbow dancing around from the light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">that comes out of nowhere. I don’t know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">if it’s a grandmother or grandfather face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But it’s looking at me and it smiles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It smiles like it knows all it needs to know, and it knows
me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">through and through. And one of its eyes winks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">at me and then the smile opens to a grin,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and the Face lifts up to move ahead and the Hand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">squeezes mine, and we’re walking together,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">side by side, and I don’t feel so small anymore,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">even against the biggest body I’ve ever seen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We’re walking together, and somehow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the One holding my hand lets me know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">that even though I’m scared and don’t know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">where I am or where we’re going, and even</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">if we get hurt somehow, we’re okay, and we’ll be okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And I’m not just being cared for and loved— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I ~tiny, lost me~ am being respected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b> and <b>Learning
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The silk mimosa over rhododendron and roses in the front yard</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">was not expected to live beyond the usual fifteen years when I came here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">twenty, it was growing so rapidly and generously that it broke its heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">with flowers one day in a downpour. Half the tree covered all of the grass,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">to a tarry scar, and an immense curl of strong scar tissue protectively encircled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">the old exposed injury. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">In years following, more limbs broke away from the miraculous body,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">but it only gave twice as much of itself in response.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">It began to compensate for a bare north flank by stretching west as far</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">as the road, gracefully leaning over my mailbox to welcome the neighbors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">home and see more of the world. It blesses all who pass through the back door,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">extending itself all the way east toward the mountain, to see dawn rising</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">from the forest, pasture and wildflower meadow. One would have to stand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">a quarter mile away to capture the whole creature’s image, with panoramic lens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Now, twenty-four years later, it is going strong at more than twice its predicted</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">watered with love and gratitude and praise down to its deeply receptive roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">But what really keeps it alive, I think, is its own divine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">fragrance, that every summer draws hundreds of hummingbirds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">to take up residence among the delicate, honey-scented flowers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">And they do not sing when they are at home, these small wonder birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">but plain and unmistakable conversation. They play together by twos in loops </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">and lusty leaps, dive bombing the roses, then going back to sip on those pink silk, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">for this tree that they encircle it into a great, green and gold</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">and bright pink hummingbird hug. They rest all afternoon, passed out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">to each other in their dreams, with voices relentless as wings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The tree sways gently beneath these fairylike birds and sprouts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">another hundred buds, shedding its feathers and leaves all over the grass</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">to make room. Noisy? you ask. Messy! you say. And I say, when you love someone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">and help the silk tree to live for a hundred years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My hummingbird guests (rather, my hosts) are mostly modest ruby throats and not as spectacular </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">as most of those below from other places, but plain or elaborate, the hummingbird's </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">nature inspires wonderment, as do the flowers and trees. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">May you be launched in fair
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">with the wind at your back</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">and the shining stars streaming
you through</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">May your strong sails of bright
silk billow,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">proud and free with the sun’s
golden blessing,</span></b></div>
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Renée Bozarth</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: large;">This Mortal
Marriage~</span></i></b></div>
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Lament and Praise</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">love poems, poetry and painting collaboration and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To view titles by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Alla Renée Bozarth that have helped people </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Books concerning the grieving process are <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Life is Goodbye/</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss</span></b><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(seventh title) and its smaller, easy to read pocket book </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">companion for when one is in raw grief and reading a larger </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">book is impossible~ <span style="font-weight: bold;">A Journey through Grief</span> (ninth title). <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">are <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lifelines: Threads of Grace through Seasons of Change</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wisdom and Wonderment: 31 Feasts to Nourish Your Soul</span>. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, Lament and Praise</span>, </span></div>
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The Great Communion ~ Why We Exist</b></span><br />
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Surprising Grace in the Prayer Imperative </b></span><br />
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<b>At the end of everything (Books and Reviews section) you can find a lengthy<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> A Journey through Grief</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lifelines: Threads of Grace through Seasons of Change</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Love's Prism: Reflections from the Heart of a Woman This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, Lament and Praise</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Dance for Me When I Die: Death as a Rite of Passage</b> [audio cassette] </span></div>
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The Rev. Alla Renée Bozarth, Ph.D., was the first woman ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal diocese of Oregon in l971, and one of the first eleven women to be ordained as priests in the Episcopal church. [That] ordination, which created a stir in ecclesiastical circles and drew international attention, took place in Philadelphia in 1974.</div>
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She prepared for ordination by reading for Holy Orders at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, while earning a Ph.D. in Interpretation (speech and drama) with a fellowship from Northwestern University, where she also received her M.A. and B.S.S. degrees. As recipient of a Bush Foundation Leaders Fellowship, she was trained and certified in Gestalt Therapy at the Gestalt Training Center in San Diego.</div>
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Since 1986, after thirteen years in Minneapolis, she practices [the liturgical, spiritual and healing arts of soul-mending and soul-tending as priest and counselor/consultant] at Wisdom House in Sandy, Oregon. Wisdom House with its small chapel is a center of serenity and creativity for friends, colleagues and those with whom she counsels or consults as a colleague mentor.</div>
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Alla Renée Bozarth was born in 1947 in Portland, Oregon. Her father was an Episcopal priest; her mother an artist and writer who had emigrated from Russia as a young woman in [1928.] Brought up in the shadow of the Pacific Northwest’s majestic mountains, transplanted for a time to Minneapolis in the flatlands of the Midwest, Dr. Bozarth returned to her beloved mountains and now lives in the shadow of Mt. Hood.</div>
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She speaks and writes about the grief journey from personal experience, as one who has lost, among others, both of her parents and her husband. The Rev. Phil Bozarth-Campbell, also an Episcopal priest, died suddenly in 1985 at the age of thirty-seven.<br />
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Alla experienced a cerebral hemorrhage while in an upside-down position immediately following her Caesarian birth, and from this one-minute old trauma she developed lifelong fibromyalgia with multiple complications. She claims the event as a stroke of lightning to her psyche, opening it up to the depth dimension of eternity. It left its visible mark in her drooping left eyelid, increasing the natural asymmetry of her face. </div>
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<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> Where did you grow up, and were reading and writing a part of your life? Who were your earliest influences, and why?</h4>
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> I grew up near Portland, Oregon, with Mt. Hood always my focal point, along with the rugged Oregon Coastline. [When I was tiny and long before I could read or spell, my mother gave me her old Underwood typewriter to break me of the habit of “writing” all over the wallpaper in the rooms of our house with bright colored crayons, just above the baseboard where I could easily reach, imitating what I saw her doing on both paper with pen and easel with paints.<br />
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Mama put her hand to writing novels but painting was her great gift. I can’t paint or perform hand crafts, but I love color and admire all art forms.] Oregon grows writers and artists as prolifically as it does trees. It rains a lot. We read a lot.<br />
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As a child, I mostly watched old movies on television, and was introduced that way to history, drama and literature. I was home more often than most youngsters [because of illnesses and nine eye surgeries from eighteen months to eighteen years of age to correct left eye damage from a cerebral hemorrhage that occurred within seconds following my birth. Except for those times when my eyes would be bandaged,] this allowed me to read voraciously.<br />
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I raided my father’s library and read Freud and Jung when I was eleven and twelve, the Spanish mystics at thirteen, Greek mythology, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and so forth, but also and more importantly, the poets. [Poetry of America’s great, richly lyrical Walt Whitman and the sensuously beautiful divine love poems of sixteenth century] Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross ignited the first impulses toward poetry from me when I was thirteen. But I didn’t start writing free form poetry until I was eighteen. By then I had read Teilhard de Chardin and fallen in love with the green world of Nature.<br />
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I wrote what I consider to be my first real poem, [a series of three, really,] while sitting on a rock in the MacKenzie River [during a visit to a Dominican Retreat Center in Western Central Oregon. I think it was drawn out of me by the energy of light on brilliant green grass and wet rocks and the river, and especially by the music and power of moving water.]<br />
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<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> What is it about poetry you enjoy the most? How many poems have you written? What do you hope to share with your poetry?<br />
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> I enjoy the plunge into the Unknown that happens with poetry. The composing process is a little dangerous, risky, exciting. It makes me flush all over. It comes up from somewhere under the earth through my soles, or hits like lightning. I must be responding to it erotically, to the process itself, for I love the surrender to it, the tending of it, the engagement of all my experience and senses, thought and feeling, but also the need to stretch beyond myself all the time, open a door to my core being and say, “Yes, I’m here. Take me. I’m yours for as long as you need me.”<br />
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This is what I call an infinitely repeatable sacrament, with no sense of possession but free, mutual self-giving— it comes to me and I give myself to it. [Though I admit to sometimes asking the Muse for a vacation! The process can be like the river that first inspired it— it surges on and on relentlessly, and my mind and body get too tired to keep up.]<br />
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[I don’t know how many poems I’ve written, or have written themselves through me or tried to, but I’m guessing something like 6,000, more than half of which I’ve deleted or tossed into the recycle bin.<br />
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What is shared with others is simply what each poem presents of itself, and each one is different. Whatever that poem says, that’s what I hope is shared. Overall, I hope that the poems, or whatever they are, communicate one or more of these gifts to others, the gifts that I receive from them when I read them later—insight; pleasure or disturbance depending on the subject matter; information about historical events or people presented in a context of meaningful imagery or interesting relationships, or with striking thematic contrasts or resonance; encouragement, empowerment, comfort, inspiration; a demand for accuracy when it’s relevant, and an authenticity in myself, the text, and both the creative and interpretative processes. Though I always demand these things, I don’t know to what extent they are present.]<br />
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<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> <i>Stars in Your Bones: Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys</i>, is a wonderful book— How did this book come to be? Tell us about this book and the people with whom you collaborated.<br />
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> <i>Stars in Your Bones</i>, was a collaboration that seemed to make itself, but was really the result of the idea and effort of Terri Hawthorne, our cultural historian and commentator, and the artist Julia Barkley. Terri was a feminist film maker in the Twin Cities where I lived at the time of the Philadelphia Ordinations in the seventies. She wanted to photograph and interview me. She also invited me to send her new poems regularly, for her personal use— empowerment, inspiration, I don’t know. I’m told that people pray my poems, which makes me happy because I think all true poetry and art are forms of prayer, ways of relating to and expressing the human essence to the Great Mystery. Meanwhile, Julia Barkley, a feminist painter in Minnesota, wrote to me and asked me to lead an invocation at her coming art show at the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota. The show was called “Energy of Miracles.”<br />
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Julia brought six powerful, exquisite paintings to my home in a furniture truck. We moved out some furniture and in they came. I sat down with them and the artist and pulled poems I’d written over the preceding decade before we’d met. There was a perfect match.<br />
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[Our first show was in three movements—the paintings alone, then a group of dancers expressing them in powerful human movement accompanied by music, and finally my performing poems that were the vocal twins of Julia’s large and vivid images on the surrounding walls.] After that, [paintings and poems] would spark each other back and forth.<br />
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Our second show was “Circle of Fire,” [which is the name of Julia’s painting that had inspired the poem by the same name, both shown in <i>Stars in Your Bones</i>, along with many paintings and poems from both shows and more recently.]<br />
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Even if we don’t visit for months on end, when we do we are still amazed to find that we unconsciously continue to create in parallel. Julia will be painting and I will be writing about the same theme, image or motif. It’s wonderful, this synergy between the forms of our art.<br />
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Terri met Julia and they also were mutually inspired by each other. Lasting friendships have endured. The book was Terri’s idea, [I believe, and she identified the themes and wove them together. Julia and Terri selected the poems to include in the book and decided on their placement.] The poem, “Transfiguration,” and some of Julia’s paintings from <i>Stars in Your Bones</i>, are in the permanent collection of the Peace Memorial Garden in Hiroshima. [“Transfiguration” was transliterated into Japanese, and together with Julia’s “Chinon” or “Dragons of Compassion for the Grief of the Soul” series, constituted the first works by foreign women artists to become part of the permanent collection in the Peace Memorial Garden.]<br />
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<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> In your book <i>At the Foot of the Mountain: Nature and the Art of Soul Healing</i>, you say, “ . . . it has no plot. My life and soul have no plot—only themes.” Please explain.<br />
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> When a human being is creating a life, there isn’t a sense of beginning, middle and end, because one can’t know where one is in the unfolding. My favorite movie, “Paint Your Wagon,” has a song whose lyrics are, “Where am I going? I don’t know. When will I get there? I ain’t certain. All that I know is, I am on my way.”<br />
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I can’t identify the whole design at any given phase of its development until I’ve moved on a little from where I am [to a place of reflection]. Even between times of reflection, I’m very aware of themes that I’m always moving through. These are basic themes of a human life—the conflicts [or balance and proportion] between solitude and intimacy, autonomy and limitation, eros toward places and eros toward persons— the balancing act we must achieve to fulfill goals or be happy [and healthy]. The soul has to learn how to respond when bad weather comes, as well as sudden bliss. I think all my books are about that, one way or another, even my scholarly book, <i>The Word’s Body: An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation</i>, which is about embodying the word [whether in performance, simply reading aloud, or even as a silent reader, and how one interprets a text through one’s kinesthetic response to it].<br />
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<b>Booksandauthors.net: </b>You were one of the first eleven women to be ordained as Episcopal priests in 1974—Tell us about this journey and achievement. Your father and late husband were Episcopal priests as well?<br />
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> As the only child of remarkable parents, my mother a painter, [designer,] actor, humanitarian and Russian emigrée , my father an aspiring artist and priest, I was immersed in adult culture from the beginning. Art and Spirit were my soul’s food, natural as breathing. As I matured, I continued to integrate them. The focus of my childhood combined humanitarian service, creativity and worship. I became a celebrant of the mysteries in my work as a poet, and I wanted to be a complete celebrant, a priest who offered the poetic structure of Thanks in the Divine Liturgy.<br />
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I’d been preparing for it since I was [four] years old and my father became a priest, with me often at his side throughout my childhood. Early in July, 1974 the invitation came to those of us women who were already ordained deacons and had been working politically for the legislative body of the Episcopal Church to approve the ordination of women to the priesthood. This was a tedious [and we believed it to be a persistently futile] process, which three bishops decided was unnecessary, since there was no actual written canon law prohibiting [the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate]. They decided simply to break with custom and do the right thing.<br />
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On July 29, 1974, eleven women were ordained priests at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia. [My beloved husband, ordained a deacon the summer of 1973 and a priest in March, 1974, and his mom, my brave mother-in-love, stood up for me as my priest and lay presenters. My own mother had died in March, 1972, six months after our wedding. The love and support of Phil and his family from the beginning made everything possible for me.]<br />
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<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> What do you feel makes good poetry?<br />
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> Good poetry happens with practice, openness, playfulness, insight, and an ear for the natural music of language. Poetry that makes one respond physically, in a positive way, or hits like lightning with an Aha! of insight expressed in some surprising way— that’s the work of the inner daimon, the creating spirit beyond a particular human being, but needing that particular human being and no other in order to be born.<br />
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[The following are different ways of talking about writing and reading poetry.]<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">What is the Difference Between</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">poetry is flying.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Flying or swimming. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Dreams allow these </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">ground-free elements, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">and buoyancy above, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">so poetry to prose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">so poetry to prose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">This is the hard way to get published — </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">blowing smoke rings out the window </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">printing poems in the air that people breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Prose is Akhmatova standing in line </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">to visit her son at a Soviet prison. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Poetry is her saying “I can,” to another </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">mother who asks, “Can you write this?” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Prose is sending poets to prison. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Poetry is the poet in prison secretly </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">composing poems by heart, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">going right on with the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Prose is </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">noon</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">, poetry dawn. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">As singing to talking, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">so poetry to prose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Prose is walking, poetry is dance. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">You can do it in the sky, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">or in a cave under water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">You can do it lying down. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">You can do it in loving arms </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">or any kind of prison cell, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">in union or in solitude. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Poetry lets you walk through </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">all the walls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Poetry moves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">It takes you</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">where prose cannot go</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">or dare not go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Accidental Wisdom</b>, iUniverse 2003</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Or, to put it in prose language:</b></span></div>
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Poetry is a form of writing or speaking created to evoke emotion and illuminate perception </div>
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through the concentrated use of language, </div>
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combining sound </div>
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(such as slant rhyme {assonance/consonance}, </div>
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certain rhythms and word juxtapositions~~</div>
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and vocal-prompting, meaning-suggesting </div>
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and imagery </div>
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to produce a sensory, emotional or cognitive affect,</div>
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and sometimes a stirring spiritual recognition </div>
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or a heightening of awareness.</div>
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A relatively short narrative poem can sometimes capture the essence of an entire novel or history by these means, and a carefully constructed dialogue poem can express and summarize the meaning of a lengthy essay.</div>
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My poetry wants variously to delight, disturb, comfort, encourage, relieve and sometimes inform or inspire the reader, including myself as reader, which is less mysterious to me than being the writer. Sometimes, in a distillation of insight or inquiry, I am working to promote or provoke the insight or inquiry of others. Being visible and audible, the poem by its nature invites engagement. Poetry roves the gamut of lived experience, from lamentation to celebration, from outrage to affection, from a playful conversation to a solitary reflection. It can be purely sensual, it can be richly meaningful, or a combination. It is the language of the soul, music in the medium of words.</div>
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This is how it comes sometimes . . . Refer to to the photo and explanation following the biographical note above, "Facing the Lightning~ Double-Sighted Mantra."<br />
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One Easter night thirty years ago</div>
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after seeing the movies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Becket, The Wizard of Oz</i></div>
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and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paint Your Wagon </i>in sequence, the model</div>
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for how our individual lives can be mirrored</div>
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in art and clearly perceived came into my mind, </div>
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complete with metaphor: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good Dragons and Guide Dogs</i>. </div>
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It came as a gift of illumination to unlock the story </div>
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of my life and family, making it clear how certain real people</div>
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came together to play certain roles. Once aware of being under </div>
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the spell of the director, they could decide for themselves whether </div>
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or not to play it out or resign. To recognize the presence of personal myths</div>
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is to be able to change them.</div>
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Others said I should write a book, but I was not called by Psyche </div>
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to write that one. Struggling to comply with publishers’ proddings, </div>
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I finally said, “No,” but did write the poem, which seemed to be </div>
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a concise way in which it all could be saved for the use of others.</div>
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Meanwhile, within a year fine books on personal myths were written</div>
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by other authors. To say No, Not Me, Not Now to a soul’s potential</div>
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creation in time frees it to find another source of entry.</div>
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On a January night 3 years earlier during a tell-a-vision commercial</div>
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two prose books about grief and love came to consciousness and </div>
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I quickly wrote down their names* with two short sentences each </div>
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to hold them together.</div>
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During another commercial a little later</div>
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a third book** about conflict and transformation</div>
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came with a name but no notes.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">*<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love’s Prism: Reflections from the Heart of a Woman</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">** </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Originally, “Broken Light,” then “Biopoetics,” then published as</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the Foot of the Mountain </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with the subtitle given by my publisher: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Discovering Images for Emotional Healing</i>, and later with my own subtitle: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Nature and the Art of Soul Healing </i></span></div>
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Afterward, I wrote copious notes for the third book</div>
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because it was the shortest and least revealed, and </div>
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therefore elusive, of the sweet trio. </div>
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The few names and notes for the books </div>
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were the passwords that would open their files </div>
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in my mind when life let up on me long enough </div>
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to write them the following spring. </div>
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The first book was born over three weeks on three hundred </div>
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well-organized pages as I typed the dictation, and the second book </div>
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followed on a hundred pages in three days in June.</div>
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The third book, being the most concise and concentrated</div>
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and still deeper in my mind and less formed, needed more life</div>
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and time for experiences that would give it cohesive substance and form.</div>
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Six years later it was finally born. + + +</div>
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This week in present time</div>
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it is still happening like this</div>
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on a smaller scale. </div>
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Poems prefer water, the shimmering of air</div>
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in which visions and fairies and </div>
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wake-dreams appear.</div>
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There in the parking lot</div>
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under the open sky of rainy night</div>
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between the store and my car</div>
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came November lightning— </div>
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Strike! poem one</div>
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As my hand reaches </div>
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for the door handle </div>
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covered with water drops— </div>
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Strike! poem two</div>
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The door opens—</div>
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Strike! poem three</div>
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Oh no, not now,</div>
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this is no place</div>
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for water to break,</div>
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in a moving car</div>
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and me at the wheel . . .</div>
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By the time I’m at the light</div>
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in the parking lot waiting</div>
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for green to give me go ahead</div>
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for the highway to home,</div>
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only two poems are left—</div>
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for water is a slippery medium.</div>
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But then as soon as the car straightens on the road</div>
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and picks up speed going east— Strike! Strike! Strike!</div>
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Three more makes six poems in all </div>
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with five to take home.</div>
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Twenty miles forward and</div>
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at the back door I try to say </div>
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all their names out loud, but now</div>
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the last three have flown or been pulled </div>
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by electromagnetism down into my primitive brain stem—</div>
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for water is a swift and transient medium.</div>
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Inside, I leap to the computer keyboard and play out their words,</div>
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saving two of five.</div>
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Swept up in the current </div>
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of the rest of the day’s demands,</div>
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I resume attending to the tasks of normal life</div>
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between the tasks of inspiration.</div>
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Meanwhile, over the next three</div>
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busy days, tucked down between</div>
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the layers of living and the folds</div>
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of substance and form stored</div>
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and shaping into themselves,</div>
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four forgotten poems break slowly</div>
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open from a slit of buried seed</div>
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and begin to germinate.</div>
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I work like a crow </div>
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on a narrow edged windowsill, </div>
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straddling two different dimensions,</div>
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a wing in each world, tending them both—</div>
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the inner and outer equally needing</div>
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my precise touch and surmising eye.</div>
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On the third day, unfolding wings shiver, </div>
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suggesting readiness.</div>
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Crow rises</div>
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while the human I</div>
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tends to the needs </div>
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of the human body.</div>
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Under hot water in a healing shower</div>
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where inspiration comes as in rain, inconveniently—</div>
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Strike! “Life is My Labyrinth”</div>
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Strike! “The Id Will Out”</div>
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Strike! “The Distortions of Night”</div>
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Strike! “Dancing in the Ruins”—</div>
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Then as I step out of the shower with wet skin</div>
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and hair raining on the purple prayer rug </div>
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beneath my feet, the bonus poem strikes in full bloom—</div>
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“Poems Like Lightning,” up from under the brain</div>
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and its body, from inside deep earth, in sequence </div>
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like lightning, thick from the electric soul, bolt for bolt—</div>
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and I boldly leap again to the electronic keyboard</div>
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to hear how the poems sound in living concert, wishing I had, </div>
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not the life or mind or job, but a staff of scribes such as that of </div>
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Catherine of Sienna who had two amanuenses take dictation for </div>
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different letters to two popes written at the same time, or Napoleon </div>
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who recited letters and notes while bathing, as five secretaries took dictation </div>
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discreetly from behind a screen so he could compose five different documents </div>
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at the same time from his non-sequential, luminous and adamantine mind—</div>
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so unlike mine except for an irresistible liking for water,</div>
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for water is a creative medium and pearl mine.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i><br />
<i> </i><b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b> c. 2012<i> </i> </div>
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This is the poem in lieu of the book that others urged me to write,<br />
the distillation that came of the weekend movie experience:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> <b> </b><b> Good Dragons and Guide Dogs — </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> The Inner Bestiary</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Prehistory: Parental Myths~</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">The Dinosaur in the Living Room</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">In the living room </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">of your soul </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">there is a dinosaur </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">standing dead center, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">blocking your route </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is so big</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">you underlook it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is each parent’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">personal myth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">from his or her </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">own experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is not yours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is theirs — </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">hers on one side, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">his on the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Look. Discern. Decide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Its left message </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">might be: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is </i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">untrustworthy.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Its right message </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">might be: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is a misery </i>or </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">reveal what’s inside and die.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Get this old, long-dead </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">thing out of your </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">life: Knock down </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">a wall and let it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">move into the sunlight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and biodegrade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Let in large light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Let the past naturally </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">disintegrate, return </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to earth and take its </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">proper new form </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to fertilize and fuel </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Move freely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">for the first time, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">perhaps, in your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">You have at last . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">breathing space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Remodel and redecorate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">your new and more </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">living room!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> In the hallway lurks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">this cold-blooded descendant </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">of the dinosaur — iguana, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">straddling the thresholds, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">cluttering the borders, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">obscuring safe passages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is each parent’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">about yourself </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">as they make you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the blind mirror </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">of their projected myths:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">You are untrustworthy.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">You are a misery.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Tell your truth and die.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Open a door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Let this current</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">slow-living creature follow </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">its extinct ancestor— out.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">The Chameleon in the Cereal Bowl</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">hides the chameleon </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">in the cereal bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is the introjection </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">of your parents’ lives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">which you translate to yourself: </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">I am untrustworthy.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">I am a misery. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">If I declare who I am I’ll die.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is not true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i> truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">When you swallow it whole </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">every day, you might say serially, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">you become your own </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">soul’s serial killer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">The Lie gets inside and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">bites and scratches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and hurts and makes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">you bleed because </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">it does not belong </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">there. It is the message </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">you can never truly digest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is shifty, changing colors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It makes you change colors </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">in ways you cannot understand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is your disguise, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">it devours your dreams </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and destroys your loves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Cough it up and spit it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Tell your loved ones </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to clean it out </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">of their cereal bowls, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">for it has climbed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">into them when no one </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">was looking, and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">made them sick, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Grow your own garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Choose your own food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Share only what you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">choose and know to be </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">good and pure to take in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to yourself and share </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Invite them to help you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">sometimes, in tending </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the garden that will </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">give you glad abundance, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the feast you were born for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">You must </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">your feet and knees </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">in the ground of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">this good, good </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">garden. Other creatures </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">will help — ladybugs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and butterflies and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">honeybees and hummingbirds </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and the best healthy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">fat worms and other </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">air-giving farmers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Welcome them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Promise them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">they will not be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">harmed by stray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">chameleons.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">4. Divine Intervention: Your Truth~</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> The Good Guard Dragon Bows, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> Honors You, Sees All </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Your guard dragon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the seer, will show you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the whole picture </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">in which your life </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Your good dragon </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">will circle above </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and give you perspective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Flying over and into far hidden </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">corners, your angel dragon, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">the seer, will show you the patterns . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">And help you to choose </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">what you can keep </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">from the past that will </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">enable you to live </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">a full-throttle life—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">And also to give back </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">what cannot serve </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">your existence,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">because it comes from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">other realities, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and forcing a fit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">causes harm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Refuse what confuses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">This work is redemption. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Your dragon will show you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">where the weeds are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and the predators also. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Out!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> Coming to Your Senses Where All is Well~</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> The Guide Dog</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Your guide dog </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">will help you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">while you open </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">your eyes and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">return to your senses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Warm-blooded beast </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">with four sturdy feet </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">in the present, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">it serves, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">it follows </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">your need </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and leads you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">away from the damaging </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">past into your full </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">present reality, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and works beside you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to shape your future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Your guide dog </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">loves you and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">is faithful </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and responds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">to your friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">You are so well </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">companioned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">Absolve the past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">and resolve the present </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">in excellent partnership </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">with this inner bestiary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">It is a way to trust your own life, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">your own being here, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">well come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond";">Revised from</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond";">Accidental Wisdom</span></b><span style="font-family: "garamond";">, iUniverse 2003</span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 14pt;">A word on poetry as sound:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Poetry Appreciation</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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“Read it out loud,</div>
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if you please.”</div>
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“Why do that, then?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Because I’m sure</div>
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that the words will taste</div>
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as good in your mouth</div>
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as they sound in my ears.”</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</i><br />
<b>The Frequencies of Sound </b>c. 2012<i> </i></div>
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<i> </i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Poetry Farm Charms</b></div>
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I meant to write “ farm chores”</div>
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but wrote about farm <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">charms</i> </div>
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instead. All the visits to the critters,</div>
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the privilege of offering them food,</div>
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not that they need it, but something extra,</div>
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a special treat on a daily basis, </div>
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as they offer me by allowing my presence.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Knowing any animal’s bond is the mouth,</div>
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I open mine to speak praise and affection</div>
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while they open theirs to accept my homage.</div>
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<br /></div>
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How I admire them, and wistfully wish I, too,</div>
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did not have to think about such things as health</div>
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insurance and Advance Directives, and whom to choose </div>
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to be my medical representative in the event of need.</div>
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One by one, I check off the answers~~</div>
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no intubation, no invasion, no resuscitation.</div>
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No more diminished capacity. Let Nature have its way with me.</div>
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After all, the question is really~~</div>
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At what cost to my life and soul</div>
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am I willing to keep my body alive? </div>
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<br /></div>
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God forbid it will ever be a relevant question.</div>
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Out here, it is not.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The other animals and also the trees and flowers</div>
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and so-called weeds and the very mountains</div>
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ask one simple question of me each day,</div>
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sometimes articulated by the river or wind,</div>
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or the water falling over rock in my backyard~~</div>
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Friend, it says~~ What does Life ask of you today?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</i><br />
<b>Purgatory Papers </b>c. 2012<i> </i></div>
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<br />
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Poetry that Doesn’t Rhyme </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Rhymes a Little </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> to Explain Itself</b></div>
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This is the only song I can sing,</div>
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this is the only joke I can tell,</div>
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this is the only play I can act,</div>
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this is my only chance for a spell,</div>
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to tell of the world of life and the soul,</div>
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to speak for all the living and half of the dead,</div>
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to invite the spirits of all creatures on earth,</div>
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to give them voice, to let their cry be mine,</div>
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I am a mother always giving birth</div>
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in the bed of her head.</div>
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<br /></div>
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No matter the cost, no matter the toll,</div>
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only a few are blessed with the means,</div>
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obliged to use it for those without,</div>
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a way to turn the tremors of time</div>
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and the horrors and joys that they know~~</div>
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everything lost and everything broken,</div>
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mirrors and all~~ and let them become,</div>
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in alchemical fires of words gone wild,</div>
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crystal goblets and light-holding windows </div>
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in a way that sings, to give color and shape</div>
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and blessed redemption, the promise of more</div>
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and the hope that it brings~~ from the daily feast</div>
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of plain bread or a shattering joy, a prayer of thanksgiving,</div>
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and from scarring wounds and unbearable burdens,</div>
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a weigh of wings.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i></div>
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<b>My Blessed Misfortunes </b>c. 2012<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Poetry Pills</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Poems are strong medicine.</div>
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Take them a few at a time,</div>
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or only one for your daily dose.</div>
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Soul supplements of truthful words,</div>
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revealing words, right words ~ work</div>
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deep down like high potency</div>
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time release capsules.</div>
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They can fortify your spirit</div>
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from the outside in and inside out.</div>
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They can clarify your self to yourself.</div>
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They can make the world more digestible.</div>
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<br /></div>
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If you take too many at once</div>
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you could get spiritual indigestion.</div>
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You could get drunk on an overdose.</div>
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But poetry won’t kill you, no matter</div>
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how much you take in, unless</div>
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you’re the one living it.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My Passion for Art</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> copyright 2012</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Poetry Like Poetry</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Nothing inspires poetry like poetry.</div>
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Poets who have never heard of each other</div>
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and will never meet accidentally find</div>
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one another’s poetry in their hands,</div>
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or more likely, one will find the other’s</div>
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and that will be that,</div>
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except that the given poem will come</div>
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to the receiving hand</div>
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and mind of the poet’s eye</div>
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like a magical hummingbird,</div>
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honeybee or butterfly, and</div>
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just like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>a new poem will burst into bloom.</div>
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</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Frequency of Light</b> c. 2012.</span></div>
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<br />
<b>The Interview Resumes~</b><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond";"></span><b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> Who are your favorite writers and why?<br />
<br />
<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> [The prose writer who comes to mind is the naturalist, Loren Eisley.] I love Walt Whitman for his shameless expansion, and Emily Dickinson for her brilliant concision. I love William Stafford for so simply making my heart happy and my hair shiver, with lines like these [in the poem framed by my typewriter hot from his own, with the handwritten corrections he made on the thin, aging white paper with pen:]<br />
<br />
[from “Gaea” by William Stafford]<br />
<br />
“And sometimes, not to know, but to spend<br />
the time learning, I make the guitar say<br />
a certain tone again and again<br />
till it all adds up and becomes<br />
what God intended from my part<br />
of the world today. Then I pause,<br />
and what follows that sound I make is music.”<br />
<br />
I love Naomi Shihab Nye’s words, saying it differently but expressing what<br />
I feel about it: “Our friend from Turkey says language is so delicate he<br />
likens it to a darling— <br />
<br />
<br />
“We will take this word in our arms.<br />
It will be small and breathing.<br />
We will not wish to scare it.<br />
Pressing lips to each syllable.<br />
Nothing else will save us now.”<br />
<br />
<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> What’s next?<br />
<br />
<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> Next for me is the publication of [fourteen] big new books and perhaps [six or] seven small ones, including two childrens' stories, plus two audio CDs. I’ve been living with and learning from a chronic illness [(fibromyalgia with ramifications such as migraines and other nuisance factors)] that has caused all sorts of physical limitations because of pain and fatigue, but . . . the more limited my body has been, the more I’ve written. I suppose it’s sublimation. I intend to [feel better] and relate largely and more directly with the world again, and that will be a celebration, a reverse sublimation, as in a poem from <i>Soulfire: Love Poems in Black and Gold</i>—“The Poet to Her Love,” which describes how my life has been a kind of volcanic eruption of poetry for five [now ten] years, but soon will settle into a more balanced form:<br />
<br />
I am about<br />
to become<br />
a monkwoman<br />
a nunwoman<br />
an animalwoman<br />
a witch<br />
I am about to pour<br />
my sex into <br />
this living <br />
thing,<br />
this poem.<br />
Later, mark me,<br />
I shall be<br />
the world’s best<br />
lay, pour<br />
all my poetry<br />
into you.<br />
<br />
<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> What was the last book you read?<br />
<br />
<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> I just finished reading two beautifully written books: <i>19 Varieties of Gazelle</i>, by Naomi Shihab Nye, and N. Scott Momaday’s <i>In the Bear’s House</i>.<br />
<br />
<b>Booksandauthors.net:</b> Do you have any hobbies? What are they? How do they enhance your writing?<br />
<br />
<b>Alla Renée Bozarth:</b> I love dressing up in luscious gowns and going to the opera and ballet, theater, dining elegantly, and more casually I love to go to the movies and eat a really great hot dog. I haven’t been able to do those things for some time, except for the occasional movie in my small town, so I enjoy watching old black and white movies on television again, and yes, they do produce poems. I love to watch the birds, weather, flowers and deer in the garden, and they all wind up transferred to the heartmind of my readers also. Besides that, I love to play my Steinway grand piano when I can, and dance. Sometimes when I can’t walk very well, I can still dance, and the dancing heals me [for its time].<br />
<br />
I love to play with my friends, too, and am blessed beyond measure in our participation in each others' lives. And I still celebrate the Eucharistic Mysteries of Great Thanksgiving. Always, always that. My garden has put a camera in my hand and the thousand pictures I’ve taken of the wildflowers, Mt. Hood, the Pacific Ocean, my roses—these, too, become poems, for image and word do love each other.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>All that follows is from the June 6, 2010 revision six years later, </b><br />
<b>which I've edited and added to again on November 16-17, 2011 </b><br />
<b>and during the last week of March, 2012.</b></div>
<br />
<b>Postscript:</b> I edited this interview as indicated on Sunday, June 6, 2010. I am aware of this being the 66th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Forces’ Invasion of the Beaches of Normandy. On June 14, 1940, Paris was overtaken by Nazi tanks and fell under Occupation. In July 1944, plans for the Battle for Paris began. Liberation was achieved on August 25 and on August 26, 1944, the 24th anniversary of Women's Suffrage being written into the United States Constitution, the Americans entered freed Paris to Victory Parades. I glanced at the calendar to see the date and it all came to mind, crucial events that determined the course of our lives before I was even born.<br />
<br />
It hardly seems fitting to refer to my life at all by working on such a small personal thing as revising (and clearing the many editorial typing errors in) the original transcript of this interview taken six years ago. <br />
<br />
<br />
On the other hand, these more recent events, in their way, by virtue of their small part in the worldwide effort to heal the world being possible because of the outcome of that hellish war, are a tribute to the Normandy Invasion Allies—both those who lived to see their homes again, and those who did not. Time and its human record called History have mirrors. We sense this in the importance of anniversaries. Often, there is a folding over of juxtaposed meanings that emerged on the same dates of significance over a span of years. Irony or victory are remembered, usually with a cascade of conflicting emotions as we feel simultaneously the impact of events which we acknowledge sequentially.<span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: black;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: black;">In 2012 following certain events in the War in Afghanistan, I added my long personal history of the Vietnam War integrating past and current events to show the nature of the human addiction to war. The docupoem follows the <b>Books</b> section as the last part of this entry, highlighted at the end of all else in case you'd like to read it. You can also preview and order the physical book here:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.blurb.com/b/9498355-vietnam-docupoem]">https://www.blurb.com/b/9498355-vietnam-docupoem</a></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Women Have No Country</b> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span> </div>
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She holds a cup of golden-tipped Assam tea </div>
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with dark leaves from East of the Rift Valley.</div>
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She wonders how a man, ostensibly a human being,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
could be either so irrational or so selfish as not</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to regard his mother, daughter, wife or sister</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
as worthy of being a citizen of his country.</div>
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That is what she wonders. It is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> country. </div>
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As far as the immature man among men is concerned,</div>
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with government, with ownership, with personal identity,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
it’s Women Keep Out/No Girls Allowed. Men get to have names.</div>
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Men get to own property and try to own everything, including other people. </div>
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Men get to be in and run government. Men are for themselves, </div>
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and expect women to be for them as well. Only for them. </div>
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This is an absurd state of affairs, thinks the woman sipping her soothing tea.</div>
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<br /></div>
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She has just gone with her three sisters to register to vote. </div>
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She is Susan B. Anthony. The year is 1872. There are fifty women behind her.</div>
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She finds three men officiating as registrars at the office of voter registration.</div>
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She demands her voting card along with the other citizens present.</div>
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<br /></div>
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She carries <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Constitution of the United States of America</i> with her, </div>
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tucked reverently and safely under her wing.</div>
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She is proud to be an intelligent and responsible citizen. </div>
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She came as a citizen to contribute her intelligent vote to her country. </div>
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First the men trying to police the polls in advance laughed at her.<br />
Then they ignored her. Then they were just plain rude, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and sulked morosely until she left. But she would not leave defeated, </div>
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or allow her country to be deprived of her intelligent vote. </div>
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She began to quote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Constitution</i>. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Accepting the unchallenged custom, she had allowed that the
so-called </div>
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generic masculine linguistic device included and meant all men and
women, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and having conceded that much to the dominant male linguists and
grammarians,</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
when she went to act on the principle by which the men had insisted
on arguing </div>
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for the generic masculine— by their own logic— that all men meant all women too </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
are
created equal, and shall therefore be entitled to vote— she was laughed at
and denied.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Her exposure of male irrationality and inconsistency had the
men<o:p></o:p></div>
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sputtering and fuming helplessly, having found themselves
caught<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
in the act of arguing against themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She pointed out the rational points, the logical sequence,<br />
her arch compliance with the fine points of the law<br />
such as residency requirements, but the men acted miffed<br />
and took her irrefutable argument as personal insult.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
Seeing they could not comprehend logic and reason, and didn’t have<br />
sense enough to realize how foolish and immoral the raw, irrational<br />
selfishness of their undignified, self-demeaning and childish behavior<br />
looked, the woman who was the lone voice of reason there observed<br />
that they would not listen, they would not concur with the obvious truth.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Only one thing made them listen, and that was when Miss Susan B. Anthony</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
promised them something. She promised them that she was prepared to file<br />
criminal charges against them in court, and to sue every last one of them, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and win. She had the best lawyer around on her side.</div>
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<br /></div>
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She said she would sue each man present for violation of The Constitution</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of the United States of America, and she would win. That got the men’s</div>
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attention. Without further word, they registered her to vote, and she left</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
believing she had done it— won the precedent proving women’s equality </div>
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under the law, as she had come to do.</div>
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<br /></div>
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They let her vote, but before month’s end, they arrested her. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Miss Susan B. Anthony, orator, scholar and political leader,<br />
went to trial, where her eyes were opened and her work began.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Her clear-thinking, clear-speaking lawyer defended her brilliantly</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
but his eloquent reason fell on deaf ears. Before a full defense could be heard, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the judge stopped the proceedings, pulled out a paper written up in advance </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with a guilty verdict and threw womankind out on its ear one more time. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The gesture to “allow” the logical and right thing to happen</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
was not a legal precedent, but a wild fluke to avoid further female fussing.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It didn’t work. No woman on Earth could accept the decision<br />
that she is not a legal citizen, being a woman, and therefore she cannot vote.</div>
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In a word (the word is <i>woman)</i>, she has no country. She belongs nowhere,<br />
other than in the service of the man who owns her.<br />
<br />
Miss Susan B. Anthony demurred.</div>
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She refused the preposterous conclusion.<br />
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She persisted and prevailed in teaching the facts and winning the verdict<br />
for decency, reason and truth, and her postmortem success countermanded<br />
the shameful proceedings in court. She broke through the layers and lines<br />
of mock lawyers attempting to bar all the sisters from what’s rightfully ours. </div>
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This is our country and we are its citizens. </div>
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This is our women’s country as well as our men's country<br />
and we are our country’s women.</div>
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And the ignorant and selfish, no matter how rich or educated<br />
they claim to be, will not be allowed to interfere<br />
with our citizens’ rights any more.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Women’s Suffrage Day </b></div>
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On August 26, 1920, at eight o’clock in the morning, at home and after </div>
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his wake-up cup of strong coffee, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby </div>
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opened the certified record of the Tennessee vote to ratify the Suffrage Bill, </div>
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which had passed House and Senate but nearly missed with the states. </div>
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Young Harry Burn, 24, of Tennessee State Legislature, cast the deciding vote</div>
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because his mother had asked him to, in the name of human decency, </div>
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and it was sent forthwith to Washington. When Mr. Colby read the result, </div>
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he picked up a plain steel pen, in unconscious honor of the steel backs </div>
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of plain women who had given their disenfranchised lives to serve </div>
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their families and country, and with their sisters everywhere </div>
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to create and protect civilization. </div>
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In the name of them and their daughters, he signed the document </div>
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that officially wrote the Nineteenth Amendment into the Constitution </div>
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of the United States of America. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, </div>
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Antoinette Brown, Elizabeth Blackwell, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman<br />
and Susan B. Anthony were not visibly present, though together they guided</div>
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his hand, as did all the women of the New World going back to the first mothers </div>
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who crossed the Bering Straits on foot from Asia to colonize the human-free<br />
wilderness of the verdant Western World some ten to twenty thousand years<br />
before, all of their hands on each other’s shoulders in relay line up to this<br />
moment of, at last, recognition.<br />
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And their daughters and all their great-great granddaughters<br />
reached from the future to lay their hands of thanks alongside them. </div>
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No one photographed the event. As he laid down the pen, </div>
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Bainbridge Colby spoke these words: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN">I turn to the women of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN">America</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN"> and say: </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN">“You may now fire when you are ready. You have been enfranchised.” </span></i></div>
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We could cheer and raise our steel fists in our velvet gloves and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>declare, </div>
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with undeniable justification, “First, we’ll fire all the men!” </div>
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But instead, we embrace<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>the freedom our blood, sweat and tears</div>
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have bought, and then we embrace each other, and finally </div>
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we embrace the men who helped us, with all our mighty hearts.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Purgatory Papers</span></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Diamonds in a Stony Field</span></b> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Miracles Happen After Hard Work</b></div>
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Miracles happen—</div>
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the French took charge and cast out the Nazis</div>
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from the City of Lights when the Occupying Germans feared</div>
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the approach of the Allies and tried to force a 9pm curfew</div>
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on the citizens of Paris. </div>
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Occupation, if it is benign, is one thing, but a curfew is an outrage. </div>
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The police took over a building opposite the Cathedral of Notre Dame</div>
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and then the women and children came out and started hurling their rocks </div>
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and the men shot tanks with small guns, and de Gaulle begged Eisenhower</div>
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to bring in the Allies, which he had formerly refused to do.</div>
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Impressed with the suddenly aggressive valor of the French, </div>
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the General agreed to follow a band of French troops into Paris, </div>
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and when they arrived, a Victory Parade was already underway </div>
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as the Liberation of Paris had officially happened the day before.</div>
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A distant humming reached the ears of the Americans,</div>
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a strange sound rising to a low murmur as they came nearer, </div>
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then erupting into an overwhelming roar of jubilation.</div>
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The people of Paris rushed on foot to greet them, women kissed them, </div>
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some offered wine to the soldiers, they climbed up onto the tanks, </div>
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hailing the Liberation of the City of Lights in the summer of 1944.</div>
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On the same day, August 26, twenty-four years before, </div>
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the Women’s Suffrage Amendment was written into the Constitution </div>
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of the United States, a victory for humanity created by the relentless </div>
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courage, effort and suffering of American women for generations.</div>
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By virtue of those heroic Suffragists, on June 4, 1919, </div>
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the Nineteenth Amendment had been passed by both </div>
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the House and Senate of Congress, </div>
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but it needed to be ratified by state legislatures. </div>
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Over a year later, on August 18<sup>th</sup> the deciding state </div>
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was Tennessee, the 36<sup>th</sup> state to cast its vote in favor,</div>
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and the deciding vote was cast by Harry Burn, </div>
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at twenty-four the youngest state legislator. </div>
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That morning he’d opened his mail and read a letter</div>
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from his mother, in which she said she’d been watching</div>
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to see him declare his inclination toward Suffrage for Women,</div>
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but so far she saw nothing. She ended her message,</div>
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“Don’t forget to be a good boy . . . and vote for suffrage.”</div>
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Supporters of suffrage wore yellow roses and filled the balcony</div>
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while opponents wore red roses on the main floor.</div>
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Harry Burn walked in wearing red, but when he voted,</div>
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he said “Aye.” </div>
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All the women in the balcony threw down </div>
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their flowers, and on that day,</div>
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there was a beautiful storm of yellow roses </div>
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raining all over the representatives</div>
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of the state of Tennessee. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> ~ <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Purgatory Papers</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, c. 2011.</span></div>
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I'm reviewing and adding to the June 6 revision now in the week of Veterans' Day a year later, seven years since the original interview. War is rampant in the world. It seems always so. Daily I hold all those who suffer because of war in my prayers for healing. That includes all living beings made to endure the consequences of human conflict, not just those directly involved in combat or even all human beings, but <i>all beings</i>, including the other animals who flee human violence in terror, but for most there is no place to go~ and also the afflicted living earth and waters. With the destruction of libraries, museums and artifacts of history, we are robbed of our own best resources for the mind and soul. Whether by loss of life or bodily or mental function, loss of loved ones, heirlooms or habitat, we afflict our kin and in war, we destroy our heritage when we aggressively harm one another. This poem came from a sense of how deeply the hidden wounds can go in those trained for battle.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Veteran </b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is admirable on the large scale is monstrous on the small. . . .</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Since we give medals to mass murderers, let us give justice to the small </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entrepreneur. </i> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dialogue in the film, “The Night of the Generals” 1967.</span></div>
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If you know someone and sooner or later discover</div>
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that he or she is a veteran of war, look into that person’s eyes</div>
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and learn your first lesson of war—</div>
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that there is more inside the skull</div>
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of someone who has been in combat</div>
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than can be known by anyone,</div>
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including the warrior.</div>
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The secrets held in the skull have to do with the essential conflict</div>
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never being over— the personal conflict, the conflict that goes on, </div>
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sleeping or waking every hour of that person’s life—<br />
the memories,thoughts, eruptive emotions that go unexpressed </div>
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lest others be overwhelmed, lest the veteran be misunderstood. </div>
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The horrible Thing Itself that cannot be told, the compelling intensity</div>
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of the experience, the faces, the images~ as the medic’s memory</div>
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of a woman’s corpse found without her head, but both her hands still</div>
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wrapped securely around the body of the baby she was holding in her lap~</div>
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the two young “enemy” warriors lying side by side, twelve or fourteen years old, </div>
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rifles still clutched in their hands or lying beside them, each shot through<br />
his thin wool cap the day before, the blue matter of their brains<br />
still coming out of a nostril or oozing from under a cap . . .</div>
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the urgency to continue issuing strategic orders from inside the ruined castle</div>
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when, a second before, a bomb has come through an opening in the stone wall</div>
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and blown a colleague across the desk from you to high heaven, splattering </div>
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his brains on your face and the maps at your fingers, but you must not stop </div>
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telling those in the air what to do because more lives are depending on you </div>
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to do your job, and soon the medics come to remove the body parts </div>
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of the person who was helping you five minutes ago and wipe them </div>
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from your face and from the maps while you go on talking </div>
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into your telephone to those whose lives depend on </div>
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your full focus and intelligent attention . . .</div>
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The secrets are a mixture of guilt with glory,</div>
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dread and terror and the thrill of the compelling intensity</div>
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known only in the extreme circumstances of war—</div>
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The addictive drama of danger, the intimate devotion</div>
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among comrades tenderly serving each other’s broken,</div>
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infected bodies and minds, a familial intimacy not possible to express </div>
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or experience anywhere or anytime or with anyone else on Earth. </div>
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The puzzling bitterness and rage of hate and desire for revenge that mingle </div>
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with an increasing repulsion to the slightest violation of another living being.</div>
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The nausea of combat conditions and the heartbreaking courage</div>
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of those who sacrifice themselves to save others.</div>
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The sheer human anger and shame, the bewilderment</div>
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that come from being raised to follow the Ten Commandments </div>
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that say, “Thou shalt not kill,” and then trained and paid to be </div>
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a legally licensed professional killer for as many years as are necessary, </div>
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obeying orders to kill while praying for protection and victory, followed by </div>
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the shock of going home to a peaceful, harmonious place innocent of war </div>
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where you would be arrested, imprisoned, tried and executed as a mass murderer </div>
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or serial killer for doing the same things you did every day in the years before, </div>
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the things for which your government perhaps gave you a medal, knowing </div>
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that this same government would now shame you and kill you for any number<br />
of things that it trained and paid you to do. </div>
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No one else can go into a veteran’s dreams </div>
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but another veteran who has lived the same nightmare </div>
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and shared the same quirky joys. </div>
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Remember a little of this when you look into a veteran’s eyes,</div>
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and before you speak, and do not ask any questions unless you are </div>
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truly willing and able to listen, and for as long as it takes,</div>
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without judgment or fatigue.</div>
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If you look inside yourself you will find the willingness and the ability </div>
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when you discover the cowering hero that lives in us all,</div>
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the ashamed, frightened and vulnerable soldier who may hide but gives all </div>
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to serve the greatest good for the greatest number, or for just one child.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Images are from veterans’ memories of World War II as told in the documentary,</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The War</span></b>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for PBS, </i></div>
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<i>October, 2007, and from unforgettable scenes in several other films.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Purgatory Papers</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, copyright 2011.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></div>
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. . . Shifting from the moving breadth of collective history in dramatic times, personally in the here a now a few things have changed in my life since the interview. <i>Stars in Your Bones</i> is no longer in print, a sad fact which I hope soon to rectify. I’ve had to sell the Steinway I played for 22 years, once owned by Grace Coolidge and a posthumous gift from my father.<br />
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<b>The Shamantool</b></div>
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To play the happy medium</div>
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to Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven — </div>
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my fingers dance possessed</div>
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across a black and white pattern,</div>
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creating color between the counted lines.</div>
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So it comes,</div>
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the sought release,</div>
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the finding</div>
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of one’s soul,</div>
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coming home</div>
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to center</div>
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after</div>
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a cold winter’s</div>
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wandering.</div>
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To move out of spin</div>
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slowly, widening the angles</div>
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of one’s space, returning</div>
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to one’s own rhythm,</div>
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at rest in stillness — </div>
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and then take off</div>
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with grace</div>
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in the remembered</div>
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storm!</div>
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The power and sound</div>
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of the hands’ dance!</div>
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I could not play so well</div>
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by working at it — </div>
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I could not play so well</div>
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for ego or for others’ ears.</div>
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I play to lose myself.</div>
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I play to die to pain.</div>
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I play to the enfolding</div>
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silence, self-forgetting.</div>
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I play myself alive again.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </div>
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From <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Book of Bliss</b>, iUniverse 2000<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Missing Gabriel ~ </b><br />
<b> I Felt Grace Beneath My Fingertips </b></div>
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I’m missing my piano. I’d named it Gabriel for the angel of glad tidings.</div>
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Today is the Feast of the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary</div>
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concerning her pregnancy with the Christ Child.<br />
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Perhaps I am full like Mary with mysterious things, and missing my angel of music<br />
which allowed me to play out my unspeakable feelings. </div>
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My piano originally belonged to Grace Coolidge, an animal rights activist and </div>
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President’s Lady. Calvin went fishing at their summer cottage in Spooner, Wisconsin, </div>
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while Grace played her beautiful Steinway grand piano all summer.</div>
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When they sold the cottage and auctioned its contents, the piano went</div>
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wooed my husband with sonatas and concerti and Classical Gas</div>
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when nothing else could, I felt Grace beneath my fingertips, her animal-loving spirit<br />
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I finally had to do the unthinkable. </div>
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Gabriel’s gone. I made the dealer who bought it promise to let me buy it back</div>
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when my ship came in, after he’d rebuilt and refinished it. But my ship has not</div>
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yet come in, and my soul has lost its voice. </div>
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hurtful free radical memories that need to be purged on return, but only </div>
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the magic of music coming from that mysterious dance between my body </div>
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and a graceful structure of strings, brass, copper and wood~~</div>
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mahogany and ebony ~~ and yellowed old ivory keys could unlock </div>
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my heartmind and find what was hiding there needing to come out and away, </div>
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with the sounds of Grieg or Chopin, Tchaikovsky or Mozart, Rachmaninoff </div>
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or Liszt, touched alive by my eyes, ears, fingers and whole-body nerve. </div>
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My soul is mute and I’m missing Gabriel,</div>
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and even my bereft tears are without healing sound.</div>
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After Gabriel had been gone for two years, a friend gave me her spinet<br />
which I named Angelina, meaning Little Angel, a lovely stand-in for Gabriel,<br />
named for the Archangel who brought Glad Tidings to Mary.<br />
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I call this portion of the room the Piano and Poetry area, alluding to the computer<br />
behind the piano where I compose poems and letters and this blog. Partly hidden<br />
beneath the purple drape on the right is a Gazelle exercise machine.<br />
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mute, I long</div>
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Since late in 2004, because of health realities, the only meaningful work I have steadily been able to do is continue to write, revise and edit my books. And another great personal loss has occurred—Julia Barkley has died. On February 1, 2010, her daughter Mary Barkley Brown ended her presentation of Julia’s life and art to the Annandale (Minnesota) History Club with these words:<br />
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Julia Barkley died at age 81 on November 22, 2005, after a long struggle against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. An <i>Annandale Advocate</i> article stated: “Friends remembered Julia Barkley last week as an artist who lived to paint, a crusader who wasn’t afraid to stick her neck out and a woman who was deeply involved in the community and world around her.”</div>
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She is deeply missed.<br />
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Again, thanks to Terri Hawthorne and Mary Barkley Brown, Julia's daughter, Julia and I were able to have one last show together a month before her death, though neither of us was physically able to attend it. Paintings and poems were displayed and my poetry was included as a prayer led by the Women in Black at a candlelight vigil for peace in the undercroft of St. Mary’s Basilica in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 16, 2005. Afterward, a group of participants visited Julia at her hospital bed in the Benedictine Health Center of Minneapolis, to thank her for being faithful to her art and giving the world so much spiritual enrichment and beauty. Some of her vibrantly intense “hypercolor” paintings were displayed in the lobby and hallways. Refreshments were served. The Benedictine Health Center informal gathering was the last art show reception for which she would be physically present. Terri and Mary each gave me a full telephone account.<br />
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Mary described her mother's Celebration of Life service, too. One thing I never knew about Julia during our shared time was that she played the trombone. Musicians in her family gave her a sendoff which included the powerful sounds of her instrument. Honored by Lakota Medicine People and Pipe Carriers as spiritually one of them, her birthplace and later her geodesic dome studio were in the heart of the Black Hills in South Dakota. She frequently presented Art and Spirit courses on the Pine Ridge Reservation with Warfield Moose, Lakota Medicine Man and Episcopal Priest, and her colleague Sister Judith Stoughton, a painter and professor of art history at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. Julia was buried with sacred feathers and shields, with seeds and stones, and Mary told me she tucked one of my poems (which was among the many I sent for our loving friend and <i>Stars in Your Bones </i>collaborator, Terri Hawthorne to read to Julia in her last months) under her head to go with her back to the earth and sky and into Paradise.<br />
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This painting below represents Julia as well as her body of work in
vibrant color. When we went on our poet's and painter's pilgrimages to
Russia, Paris and Bern, Switzerland, she sought out the great colorist
painters, especially the Fauve group of artists among the
post-impressionists, led by Matisse. Julia's art was painterly. She
loved to get as much paint on the canvas, paper or metal base as
possible. She would delight in showing how she would, in the tradition
of Jackson Pollock, splatter, drip and throw color over thick brush work
to create a textured effect and bring the image alive. Her paintings
can be viewed and purchased at the website her daughter created for her:
<a href="http://www.juliabarkley.net/">www.juliabarkley.net</a><br />
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I am blessed to have known and loved her and worked with her for so many wonderful years. I am honored to be her forever friend, and bless her for taking her<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dragons of Compassion for the Grief of the Soul</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></b>paintings along with my poem "Transfiguration," commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima, to present to the Mayor of that again beautiful city. They were the first works by foreign women artists to become part of the permanent collection in the Peace Memorial Garden. I was told that the poem has been transliterated into the Japanese language, though I have not seen it. My heart is glad for it to be there. In return, among the
Christian and Buddhist Japanese artists visited by Julia and Sister
Judith Stoughton, her friend and art teacher from the College of St.
Catherine in St. Paul, there was a Buddhist gentleman who had been
injured
during the bombing. He gave her gifts of his own art to share. On my
wall there is an exquisite painting of purple irises on a gold
background which Julia promised him she would give to me.<br />
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Irises symbolize Good News. I call them the Gospel flower, for Gospel means Good News. . . . . The luminosity of the painting and of tall irises growing in water at the ends of bridges as they are so often depicted in art suggest to me the breaking of light in diamond prisms, which could also make them symbolic of the Diamond Sutra, whose Sanskrit title literally translates, "Diamond Cutter of Perfect Wisdom." A copy of a Chinese version of the text, classified as in the <i>Perfection of Wisdom </i>genre, was found about a hundred years ago, and dating to 868, it has been described by the British Library as "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book."<br />
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Word and image do love each other, poetry and paintings, enhanced when performed with music or dance, can impart wisdom through two or more senses all the more effectively to make sense of life and death to the soul, even when these mysteries are beyond the mind's rational capacity alone, without being in conflict with reason. They are a route to the Holy Spirit by whatever name. Einstein and Escher shared with Picasso, Dante and Bach the sense of sacred mathematical proportions across the borders of intellectual disciplines.<br />
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<i style="background-color: white;"><b>Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</b> . . . is a book by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter" title="Douglas Hofstadter">Douglas Hofstadter</a>, described by the author as "a metaphorical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue" title="Fugue">fugue</a> on minds and machines in the spirit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>"</i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>~</span> Gödel the great theistic logician, Escher the painter and Bach the musician, all in concert as harmonic masters of wind, brass and strings, standing for the core music of color, of mathematical correspondences and of language in varied rhythms of sound and meaning known as poetry, each within each, as intellect, intuition, emotion and sensation correspond in expressions of both language and number, art and science, each within each, a creative, holotropic gestalt of performance.</div>
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Both word and image evoke music, so ear and eye are involved in the experience of both genres, and they also evoke a philosophic point of view which may or may not be directly expressible through any genre. In these ways, Painting and Poetry are self-transcending multimedia, non-linear, non-dogmatic sermons for the intuitive senses and the feeling mind.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey </span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> [front and back cover, click to enlarge]</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by Alla Renée Bozarth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Revised Edition: Luramedia 1988</span></div>
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Morality in the Christian community flows spontaneously out of a shared perception of Christ’s love. It is a shared attitude of desire for the common good, an attitude of well-wishing toward life so forceful that it shapes the good it intends. Genuine morality is the actualized overflow of the love of Christ into the world; it is an acted yearning for the wholeness and well-being of others. It is, finally, a mutual empowerment toward wholeness in creation.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This is My Beloved</span></div>
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Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey [First Edition]</h4>
Alla Bozarth-Campbell (Alla Renée Bozarth) Alla was one of the first women to be ordained priest in the Episcopal church. She was one of Philadelphia eleven: eleven women deacons ordained “underground” by a retired bishop of the church, the canons of which declare “a priest is a priest forever.”<br />
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The Church National Conference laity [and priests] had several times voted to accept women as priests, but the bishops continually blocked the ordinations by very slim minorities. Young male candidates for ordination were “striking,” refusing ordination, until the Church at large allowed women priests.<br />
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These eleven women pushed the matter from hypothesis into reality, and forced the Church to deal with it.To be one of these eleven required courage, and faith, but also a sureness of vocation. How Bozarth-Campbell came to have these qualities makes a remarkable biography.<br />
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Bozarth-Campbell is a gentle writer: she is neither a braggart, nor cloyingly modest. Her writing suggests that she is soft-spoken, but nonetheless certain of herself. She is also never at a loss for just the right word; altogether, this story is gripping. Even though we know how things turn out, there is suspense; we don't know the details, and I, myself was on the edge of my chair waiting for them.<br />
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Anyone interested in women’s spirituality or church history must read this book; people who enjoy biography in general will not be disappointed either. And those who just enjoy good writing should like this book. <b> </b><br />
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<b>Rivcah </b><b>Maccaby</b> Bloomington, Indiana<br />
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<b>Two Responses specifically to the poem, "Passover Remembered" in <i>Womanpriest: </i></b><br />
<b><i>A Personal Odyssey</i>, revised edition 1988.<br />
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Dearest Alla, I met you almost twenty
years ago to date. I was a junior in college at Mount St. Mary's in Los
Angeles. Never in my life had I seen a woman who was ordained within the
church. Since then, my feminist consciousness has evolved, so much so
that I am in a doctoral program now at Claremont Graduate University in
the Women Studies in Religion program. I am writing this note because,
along the way, I have kept your poem, "Passover Remembered," close to my
heart. When I am distressed or need to be comforted that the days are
long and the work to be done is too much, I can look at your poem and
find comfort. Along the way as well I have shared it with women, who
like myself, are engaging in the feminist task of hearing ourselves into
speech. For twenty-years, indirectly, you have been a
conversation-prayer partner for me, through this poem. For that, I wish
to thank you today. <b> </b><br />
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<b>Theresa Yugar</b></div>
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Fantastic! This is what we need. Like a pen to write the fireworks, vivid and outstanding.<br />
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<b>The Word's Body: An Incarnational Aesthetic </b><br />
<b>of Interpretation</b> by <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Alla Renée Bozarth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">University Press of America 1997, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This is a reprint of the original hard cover book shown above,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by the University of Alabama Press, 1979.<span class="bookinfo"> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Introduction: Toward an Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Metaphor and Interpretation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">The Art of Interpretation: Creation, Incarnation, Transformation </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo"><b>In the Beginning Is the Word</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Interpretation As the Embodiment of Literature</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Hermeneutics and Interpretation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Toward an Erotics of Interpretation </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">The Word Becomes Flesh</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Making/Acting</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Logos/Eros</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Intersubjectivity/Hypostasis</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Theopoiesis/Synergia</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Apophatic/Cataphatic</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Transformation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo"><i>Kairos</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo"><b>Conclusion: An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Creation</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo"><b>Notes, Bibliography, Index</b></span></span><br />
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The Word’s Body: <br />
An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation<b> </b></h4>
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<b>The Word's Body</b> integrates depth psychology and linguistic philosophy to illuminate a metaphor of the creative process, specifically the performance of literature in public or private as “the word becoming flesh.” This book expands the Johannine metaphor to describe the artist/performer/preacher's work of embodying the Word: Creation, Incarnation, and Transformation/Communion: The Word becomes flesh and dwells among us. It is an answer to Susan Sontag’s call for an erotics of interpretation. </h4>
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<b><span class="booktitles">Sparrow Songs: A Father-Daughter Anthology</span></b> Poems by Alla Bozarth-Campbell and René Bozarth<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3935062402132074268" name="lifeGoodby"></a><span class="bookinfo"> Wisdom House Press 1982 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> by Alla Renée Bozarth </span></span></div>
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there are no stages of grief.</div>
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There is only the landscape</div>
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of the soul and its varied terrains.</div>
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Navigating hard rock to ocean froth</div>
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believe me that will be a far more impressive feat </div>
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Some say, Grieve hard and be done. </div>
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Some say, Grieve hard and long.</div>
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Some say, Grieve gently for as long as you must.</div>
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Some say, Grieve quickly and privately, or not at all.</div>
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Only this can be authentically and generally said~</div>
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Grieve in your own true way.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Riding the ruling currents of the moments and hours </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
will be all that some can manage, more than others can
imagine, </div>
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and unnecessary to others while essential to a few.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Though the raw pain of grief will not last forever,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
it can return from time to time, even many years later,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
as some loss is, from the beginning, nearly past bearing. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
You need not anticipate its return,</div>
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but neither be overly dismayed by </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
the crack and bleed of old scars. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Like a virus that sleeps in the spinal fluid for a lifetime </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
and may or may not awaken to sicken the body all over again,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
it could happen to anyone or anyone’s body, spirit or mind. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
In the beginning of grief it can seem</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
as though the world has broken apart, and</div>
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most of it will be out of synch with your fragile heart</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Out the window it may be springtime sunny </div>
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and breaking into bloom, </div>
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but still be bitter winter inside the soul.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This will confuse and anger you.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
You will want the world to be in a state of suspension </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
and wait for you, for your world will still be inside its deep
winter.</div>
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You will say to the sun, How dare you shine? Stop it right
now!</div>
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And to the garden, How dare you burst into bloom? And to the
green, </div>
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Go back into gray. For living color and most music will
shock and insult you.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
You may be like Crow and live in two worlds, back and forth</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
in rapid succession between them— the outer world, which
will now </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
seem a foreign country whose language you dimly remember but
must </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
make every effort to use in order to talk to the grocer, the
lawyer,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
the child or the dog, though you hear yourself </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
as from the end of a long narrow tunnel or underneath water.
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
The other more dominant world will be the ethereal,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
the broken open and shattered world within psyche, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
where you will simultaneously do anything to escape,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
and also do anything to roam homelessly, endlessly there~ </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
to serve, protect and preserve the sacred story.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
If memories rush up to flood through the mists, they will
likely </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
be non-linear and ghostly fragments~ or vivid as blood.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Things will get better and then get worse, up, down</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
and every which way. Over time things will change,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
but some will take more than years to heal.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
More energy than usual will be required to move, to speak.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
From now on the stories you tell may lack sequence,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
and you will often leave out the middle, end or beginning.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don’t worry. Whatever is true
for you is your truth~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a spiral path, a labyrinthine
terrain, a mountain goat’s climb</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on precarious rocks, a
solitary place to sit by a body of water </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">or beneath a tree, a dolphin’s blue ocean deep
or a salmon’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">leaping up rivers against all currents and odds
to come again </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to true home~ it will be <i>your </i>journey,
and the home of rebirth </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that you alone come to, though you may find
and love </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">kindred hearts along the way and there also
at journey’s rest.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Others similarly injured may take very little time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
to heal and will have little understanding of those </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
who need long or recurrent mourning. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Simply this, then~</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
Blessed are those who are as fine as they say.</div>
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And blessed are those who are not, though they will be.</div>
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Blessed Be.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></div>
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<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Diamonds in a Stony Field</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Copyright 2012.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
When Dr. Elisabeth<span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto">Kübler-Ross </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto">was an instructor at </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto">the
University of Chicago Medical School, she undertook a study based on
her interviews with dying people. Through these conversations, she
learned that people respond in a variety of ways upon being told that
they are terminally ill. She outlined five emotional responses as
examples of the variations experienced among those who told her certain
aspects of their processes. Dr. </span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto">Kübler-Ross</span></span>
did not intend that her transcription of these accounts be interpreted
as a formula for how to grieve, and certainly not as chronological rules
for grieving, but rather that they be received as specific examples of
some of the emotional responses persons had when confronted with their
own deaths. Nor did she intend that they be extrapolated to describe the
grief one feels after someone has died or when one has lost something
precious, which is a different experience altogether. Sadly, her
intentions have not been honored. </div>
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
The sacred stories entrusted to her were given to the world to sensitize
readers to the delicate and unique experience of first learning that
one is going to die. These processes are not the same as what those same
people would have experienced in after-loss situations. In the spirit
of respect, the following resources describe various deeply human
responses as individual people experience loss, and in most cases
ultimately integrate meaning for themselves, after they have lost
someone or something dear to them, including the absence of something or
someone longed for but never attained. Always, what is honored and
supported is the unique experience of the individual person.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The grieving process is on
some levels lifelong, as we continuously interweave new threads into the entire tapestry and rearrange or eliminate old threads,
linking them all together with past, present and future in the everpresent Now. It is not a linear
process, not even a neat spiral, but more of an ever-changing labyrinth or
irregular and uneven, multi-level zigzag. It is complex and simple, it is
paradoxical and poetic and as ordinary, commonplace and colloquial as getting
up, cleaning up and changing clothes from night to day every day. Working it
through is the living process that enriches our lives.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello: Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss </span></b></div>
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Alla Renée Bozarth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">(First Edition CompCare 1982, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Revised Edition 1986)</span></span></div>
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<div style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Hazelden 1993</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo"><b>Chapter Headings: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Attitudes about Grieving</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Loss of Part of Oneself</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Grieving: How It Feels, What It Does, What You Can Do about It</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Four Styles of Grieving</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Death</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Birth and Parenting</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Change</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Separation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Sickness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Success</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Essentials of the Art of Grieving</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">Epilogue</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://allareneebozarth.com/life_goodbye_life_hello_review.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read Reviews ></a></span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello: <br />
Grieving Well through All Kinds of Loss</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv1112887532MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best
book ever on grieving over anything! This book has helped me so much
during a very rough time in my life where I’ve split from my husband,
lost my house that I dearly loved, and move to a place that I hate. It
helps you understand what you're going through, and it gives you things
to do that can help. An amazingly good book! </span></div>
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<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous reader</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
amazon.com </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Alla Renée Bozarth is an excellent resource for anyone experiencing
grief. This book is a profound mingling of sound psychological education
and the emotional depth of one acquainted with grief. While she does
not focus on the details of her story, I enjoyed the personal element of
her personal grief poetry being interspersed throughout the book.
Bozarth is both a priest and a therapist, yet she says her own grief
journey was taken as only a broken human being.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
book is very thorough in its coverage of the various aspects of grief.
She addresses cultural aspects of grief and how the loss of a
significant person in our lives causes us to grieve other losses related
to one’s self. She talks about how grief feels, its symptoms, and what
you can do about it. </span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She
also includes chapters on the grief caused through other losses in life
such as change, separation, sickness, and even things we normally
consider good such as the birth of a child and success. </span></div>
<div class="yiv1112887532MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">One
of the best things about the book is her reminder that suffering in
and of itself has no value, yet we have the choice to teach ourselves
and grow through our suffering. Bozarth shows her reader how, in the
midst of their loss, they can teach themselves to have a new kind of
joy and wholeness.</span></div>
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<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous reader</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Five stars—An excellent guide for all kinds of grief journeys! I read
this book in 1994 to help me with the loss of my grandmother to cancer.
As I was reading the book, I began to understand how many other ways I
had experienced grief in my life and never even knew it because “we
don't talk about things like that.” </span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
understood how changing jobs, moving to a new state, and giving birth
are all moments in my life when I experienced change, and as a result,
grief. I learned/understood that my emotional responses to each of
these situations were not crazy but normal, and that awareness allowed
me to work through the grief process much better. </span></div>
<div class="yiv1112887532MsoNormal" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
was also better able to support myself in healthy ways. Because of the
chapter on personal illness or the illness of a loved one, I have been
sharing this information with the patients at my hospital ever since.
The patients (and their loved ones) are experiencing grief as they
learn to cope with a temporary or permanent disability as the result of
illness, accident, or surgery. I am truly grateful that I found this
book so that I can heal through my own grief, as well as support the
people I meet on a daily basis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many
of the patients and their loved ones have thanked me for sharing this
information with them and commented on how much the information has
helped them to begin healing through their changes.</span></div>
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<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous reader</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
amazon.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I discovered this book in the early 90's after my Father passed away
from cancer. There had been many deaths in my small family—a sister at
19 (auto crash) and 3 weeks later my first husband committed suicide
several years ago. This book enabled me to work through the grief that
had been unresolved for a long time and regain self-esteem which tragedy
destroys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
was so impressed that she didn’t “preach”—she shared her own
experience. I have used this book through the years for reference and
have passed it on to friends. I have bought 3 copies just for myself
because no one wants to give it up after they read it. My present copy
is dog-eared and highlighted throughout. </span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My
husband and soul-mate died almost 2 years ago—also from cancer. Once
again, this book is helping me, especially when I learned that
Bozarth . . . had lost her husband after writing it. She had added an
epilogue describing the additional grief she suffered. I am now
ordering a copy for a friend who is also going through grief. </span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I highly recommend <i>Life is Goodbye</i>
for anyone experiencing grief of any kind. It doesn’t have to be a
death. Thank you Dr. Bozarth . . . for saving the sanity of many. </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Carolyn G. Wright</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Bozarth walks you through all kinds of loss. Loss is of a friendship, a
job, an age, or a beloved person or pet. This book is conclusive
evidence that we will encounter many deaths within our lifetime, and as
long as we have faith, we will survive intact. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
trick is to acknowledge the loss, allow the grieving and looking ahead
once again with trust. This book is a great restorative. I bought it
first for a sociology class, then bought four more copies to give.</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous reader</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
amazon.com </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
My husband of 46 years committed suicide 3 months ago. While reaching
out to every resource available to me, I came across this book. After
reading it, I went back through and highlighted it everywhere it hit the
mark. It took two days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
is the most astoundingly helpful book I’ve seen and I've read a lot of
them. I’ve also recommended it to my therapists as a wonderful source
of wisdom, insight, and understanding for those who are dealing with
all kinds of grief: death, divorce, job loss, giving birth and many
other events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What
a lot of helpful insights Dr. Bozarth offers! I recommend it
unreservedly to all who are traveling down this road. God be with you.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Elizabeth J. Riney, M.D.</span></b></div>
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I read this book after my mother died 16 years ago and I still recommend
it when someone I know has lost a loved one. It really explains the
grief process and lets you know that no matter how you feel and how you
respond, you’re not losing your mind. I found it very comforting. I
also pulled it out and reread it after having a miscarriage. This book
is full of wisdom that will help with any loss. I highly recommend
it! </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Carleen Brice</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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I purchased this book after the sudden death of a friend. I was at a
complete loss as to how to deal with it, and had never experienced this
type of loss before. I was shaken. </span><br />
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I can’t believe my good fortune to have this book. It taught me so much
about the role Grief plays in our lives, as well as it's not just
limited to the loss of a person or relationship. Grief can come in all
forms from all things. I found it very comforting to discover this and
it actually helped me to embrace grief as a natural precursor to
healing.<br />
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This is definitely a great book to have around, and it did give me some
tremendous insights. I highly recommend this book for anyone having
experience a loss or a feeling of loss that you can’t seem to attach to
anything. I really feel like this book was a sanity saver in a sense,
as it helped me identify something I would have never recognized as
‘grief-worthy.’</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">C.K. Ogi<br />
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At a time when I had lost 3 people that I loved very much over a period
of only 6 months, I was not sure where to turn. Friends, family and
co-workers said, “just take it one day at a time.” Although this is a
very true statement, understanding the emotions you are feeling and why
can really, really help after a loss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
book doesn’t just touch on death, it encompasses all losses from a job
or divorce to the loss of a loved one. There are so many different
things to consider and this book helps to drill down to your connect to
the job or person and why the loss if effecting you in the way it is. I
highly recommend this book, it does have a bit of a religious spin but
not as a turn off, as a warm welcoming feeling that someone else
understands.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">K. Haynes</span></b></div>
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A guide to help you through life's rough spots.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br />
This book was an excellent guide for me when my husband came out of the
closet. I felt like I was lost, floating in space. I was so scared to
face what was happening to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
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book helped me at the worst time of my life by giving me a map to
follow to get through. Thank you Alla writing such a readable book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by Alla Renée Bozarth<span class="bookinfo"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bookinfo">(First Edition CompCare 1990) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This
book was the most helpful I found when dealing with deep grief. It’s
short, to the point, and hits the key heart strings with great
simplicity and clarity. The idea that tears are what you do when you
can’t do anything else was such a relief to me—knowing I could cry for
as long as I needed and it would pass. And the idea to be gentle with
myself allowed me to go through all the stages of grief undisturbed. I
recommend this to every person who goes through a significant death such
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A Journey through Grief—5.0 out of 5 stars.<br />
A wonderful book to share with anyone who has had a loss. </span></b></div>
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found this book quite by accident, but the timing could not have been
better. After reading this book I felt as though I’d received a much
needed hug. It is short, to the point, very gentle, and beautifully
written. The author is a true poet. I have given several copies to
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Religions scholar Huston Smith, was directly behind him. During my talk,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">both of them, Huston much older than Phil, had radiant smiles on their </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">faces as they leaned forward from time to time, as if it was all they could </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">do to keep from saying </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yes!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> or </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> out loud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I let go of the last vestige of my lack of self-acceptance.” Phil also</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">wisdom throughout our marriage, as of course he had been for me, which </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I told him in turn. Then Phil said, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's because of your relentless acceptance </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of me that I've finally been able to accept myself.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The conference had been around the fifteenth of November, and</span> the day after </div>
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Thanksgiving at the end of the month, Phil took me<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to the Twin Cities airport </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to fly to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oregon</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for my writing retreat. I was going to be gone until just before </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On December 8, Phil called me. We'd been talking so much on then</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">expensive long distance that we'd agreed to wait four days until </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday for our next visit, but Phil called the next day, Sunday,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the First Sunday of Advent. He was too excited and happy to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">wait. He wanted to tell me all about the Advent service that morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Everything was gorgeous~ the altar, the flowers, the music. He sang</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and played his guitar with the choir. His sermon was called, "What</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">are You Waiting For," and he was very pleased with it. I delighted</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in hearing and imagining all this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then I said, "I'm so glad you called because I wanted more than </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">anything to call you and tell you something. I read in the Sunday <i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Parade Magazine</i> this morning. Toward the end of Franklin's life, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eleanor Roosevelt wrote him a love note and tucked it in his coat </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">pocket for him to carry around. It said, 'You are the best husband </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the world.' I wanted to say that to you, Phil. For all our years </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">together you've worked hard and you gave me the courage to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">work hard with you so that we could truly achieve marriage </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">together. Now I can say it to you with all my heart, Phil. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You Are the Best Husband on Earth." I could hear him purr . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When he had proposed to me on February 27, 1971, after a kiss </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">good night in the front seat of my 1968 Plymouth Valiant, he</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">asked rather casually, "Will you marry me some day, Hon?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I even more casually grinned and said, "Uh huh," and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">kissed him again. Nearly fifteen years later on the telephone</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I playfully said, "Will you marry me someday, Hon?" and he</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">said, "Uh huh." Then in turn he asked, "Will you marry me?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and I exclaimed, "<b>YES!</b>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">While in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oregon I had gone Christmas shopping and wrapped </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">presents for the family on December 6, St. Nicholas Day. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">They were in big canvas shopping bags and ready for my return </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">trip around the 20th.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But on December 9, I was awakened from sleep by the telephone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was Phil’s mom calling from the hospital to tell me that Phil had </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">just died. I had been dreaming. I dreamed that a man in a United </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Parcel Service uniform had asked me to witness and bless his saying</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Goodbye to the woman he loved. It was like a wedding, and later</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I realized that I was both priest and bride, and the groom was Phil,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">declaring his eternal love. And then the phone rang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was still half-asleep when I heard the words. I fell out of bed onto</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">my knees and wailed the single word, “NO!!” My mother-in-love said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Call your neighbor right now.” My dear neighbor came and wept with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then she called two other friends. Soon, three women were with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">One packed. One drove me to the airport. I lay across three seats on </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the plane and quietly sobbed myself half asleep again. How else could</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I endure those horrible hours? The family met me at the airport where </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">less than two weeks earlier Phil’s bright loving eyes looked into mine </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and we blessed and kissed each other for the last time on Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Phil was a 37 year old man in robust health. He had the sniffles and was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">getting ready to go to work. Suddenly he had an absence seizure but</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">couldn’t bring himself out of it and called 911. He died in the ambulance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The autopsy revealed that his heart was strong and healthy but his lungs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">had filled with blood clots. It happened very quickly. It was 20 years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">before we knew why it happened. His younger brother had a routine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">physical and during the history he’d mentioned Phil’s death. His physician</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ordered a blood test, suspecting a genetic clotting mutation {Factor V </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Leiden disorder} that had only been discovered and named in 1994, nine </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">years after Phil died of it. His brother had inherited the mutant gene from </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">one parent, but by deduction, Phil was posthumously diagnosed as having </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">inherited it from both, increasing the likelihood of a fatal episode five </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">hundredfold. It can be triggered by a virus, and as his physician explained </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to me when reviewing his autopsy report, “a virus can take a detour </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">anywhere it wants to in the body, and his had gone to the clotting centers </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of his brain.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Three years earlier I saw my father at the same airport and kissed him </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Goodbye for the last time also. After recovering from a long illness, he </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">had gone on a tour of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">England</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Normandy</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> called “In the Footsteps </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of Thomas à Becket,” in celebration of his new freedom. He had called</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">us from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">London</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to say that he would be flying home to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">California</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">next day and that Northwest Airlines had changed his Customs entry </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">city from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Denver</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minneapolis</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. We accepted his invitation to meet </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">him at the airport and spend an hour with him at the gate before his </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">final flight home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">During that last sweet hour he showed us maps and told us about </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">his glorious pilgrimage, the people he’d met— about how a few nights </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">earlier when they’d crossed the Channel into </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Normandy</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> their bus driver </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">got lost in the rain, and for two hours they drove around in would-be</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">frustration. Tired and hungry, the pilgrims and driver felt every jolt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and curve of the ride along narrow French roads, until my father took</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">charge. The next two hours flew by, at least for the passengers, as they</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">sang show tunes to their hearts’ restoration. {I later learned how much</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">this meant to them from the people themselves when I phoned to let </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">them know what had happened.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Papa told us that the next morning he got up early to take his first</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">walk in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">France</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by himself. They would be going back to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">London</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">then fly home the next day. He started that last portion of his pilgrimage</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">by walking down to the river. He found a small bridge over a rivulet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seine</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and from there he watched the dawn mists rise from the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">river. He said he took a picture that he was sure would capture the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">beauty of light on the water as silver gave way to pink, then gold. He</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">patted his overcoat pocket and said, “The picture’s right here on my</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">last roll of film.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Phil had to leave for a meeting, and as we walked down the corridor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from the gate I said, “I forgot to tell Papa that I’m proud of him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Phil said, “Call him tomorrow and tell him.” I turned and Papa was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">watching us, so we smiled warmly and waved to each other. I let him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">rest the next day and planned to call him the day after. That night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">he died in his sleep. When I arrived at his place I saw my new book,</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on his nightstand. I’d inscribed an advance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">copy for him and mailed it so it would be there when he got home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It said, “Thank you for all you have given, all you have taught me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Knowing that he’d read it as was his custom before sleep, I felt like</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">he’d hugged me from Heaven. I vowed never again to delay saying</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">words of praise when I felt them. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And yes, I found the roll of film</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">still in his pocket and had it developed immediately. I enlarged and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">framed the picture he’d described in an antiqued gold frame. It was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on my wall for many years, an icon of his last deep vision, one which</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">he experienced with the eyes of his soul and passed on to me as a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">beautiful legacy. I am so glad that we got to hear him describe it in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">his own voice. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The night of Phil’s death I sat in his big leather chair and remembered</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that he had made his own recording of my talk three weeks earlier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I put his tape recorder on my lap and played the closing meditation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as I visualized him lying on the beautiful emerald green carpet of our</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">living room, but I hadn’t anticipated what would happen when I pressed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the “Play” button. Since the recorder had been in Phil’s lap during the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">meditation, his voice was the primary sound when those 500 people said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I bless you, I release you— I set you free, I set me free— I let you be, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I let me be.” In that way, transcending time and space and death itself, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Phil and I said Goodbye out loud to his body together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Six months later, my doorbell rang back in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oregon</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. I had driven back </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oregon</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> with me, as I had to sell our condominium in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minneapolis</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’d packed everything but furniture in 27 United Parcel Post boxes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and sent them to meet me by truck. When I opened the door, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">standing there to bring me the last of our life together was a man </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in a United Parcel Service uniform. I gasped, remembering the dream </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Phil had sent me as his spirit was flying on its way Home to God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Bakerwoman God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Blackberry Zen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Blessings of the Stew Pot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Call</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Chambered Nautilus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Family </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Reunion</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">God is a Verb</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In the End When Life Begins Again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In the Name of the Bee & the Bear & the Butterfly</span></div>
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<b>Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by Alla Renée Bozarth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">(First Edition with subtitle: "Discovering Images for Emotional Healing"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by Alla Bozarth-Campbell CompCare 1990) </span></div>
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its details, and its resolution. Now some of these things have been</div>
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<i>Of Nature as teacher and healer, death as utmost transformation~ of Grace, of courage, of willingness, </i><br />
<i>surrender, wonder, of breath-taking moments of splendor in the lives of Creation around me . . . </i><br />
<i>the salmon's steadfast swim out to sea and heroic return at life's end to the finger lakes where it was </i><br />
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Alla Renée Bozarth </div>
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in Los Angeles, 1991</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Six Days in St. Petersburg</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>—<br />
A Chronicle of Return </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Poems by Alla Renée Bozarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Purple Iris Press 1993 <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>At the Ballet</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Petersburg</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at the Little Ballet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a large while angel flies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in each corner of the state,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">blessing the wings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of the theatre and all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who lap and exult there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all who fall weary</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">into the wild ovations</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of entranced audiences</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like me, unable to move</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or acknowledge it's over,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">refusing to go home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at dawn still sitting there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">throwing roses at the dancers' feet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dialectic</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Olga, Tanya and Vladimir</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b>entertain us expansively</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in their two-room flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The children, Vasya and Irina</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">are out taking music lessons</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and studying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We eat potatoes from the country</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and cucumbers from town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Red tulips we have carried</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through the deep Underground</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">open in full glory, yellow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">stamen against the gold wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Iced cake and samovar tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apples and currants in tall glasses</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with fresh sugar just purchased dearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the way back in the taxi,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Olga whispers when we pass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a medium-sized grey building, "KGB."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I look up as we turn the corner,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">see a green plant growing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in a fifth floor window,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">white curtains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The old functions change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What oppressed now seeks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to protect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometime soon, let freedom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and security breathe as one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Misha</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The affable</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b>young man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who speaks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for his country </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and teaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">strangers its ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">gives us a link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">there are no natives</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He, after all, is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">half Tartar, a quarter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kurd, a quarter Jewish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is an honest citizen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wisdom and Wonderment—<br />
Thirty-one Feasts to Nourish Your Soul</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sheed and Ward </span><span style="font-size: large;">1993 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Thirty-One Commandments or Flavors of Grace</span></b><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b><i>Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">Native American Saying<br />
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Thou shalt not insult thy Creator by hating, abusing or </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">disrespecting thy Self.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Thou shalt not insult thy Creator by hating, abusing or </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">disrespecting any</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> Other Child of God.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not bore thy Creator – by reading from a script </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to converse with Same– unless it be to share good literature, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">for the Creator loves a good read.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not grovel.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not whine.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not repeat thy sins and irritating habits </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">over and over again in word or deed.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt relinquish thine addiction to perfection, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">for it will only harm thee.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not cling falsely to any other of thy delusions, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">nor to thy tedious disbeliefs</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> for safety or stubbornness’ sake.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">But thou shalt not be afraid to ask questions.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">And thou shalt learn to ask the truly helpful questions, and </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to live them patiently.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">And thou shalt remember that it is all right to be wrong and </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to admit it.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not be afraid to be foolish, for Wisdom loves </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">the honest risk taker, and thou shalt laugh gently with her.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not, however, keep doing the same dumb things </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">without learning gratefully from the gift of thy mistakes.</span><br />
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Thou shalt relinquish thy rage after listening to thy hurt </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">child within, and learning</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> what thou needest to feel safe.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> And thou shalt focus and use thy righteous anger against </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">injustice well, to change reality for the greater well being </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">of all.</span><br />
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Thou shalt raise hell, from time to time, for heaven’s sake.</span><br />
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Thou shalt not be afraid to ask for forgiveness, and to forgive.</span><br />
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Thou shalt remember the obvious, and not belabor it.</span><br />
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Thou shalt not underestimate thy power nor minimize </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">thy pain, but learn</span><span style="font-size: large;"> to use both compassionately.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not forget to celebrate and practice happiness </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and breathe in and out</span><span style="font-size: large;"> with a grateful heart every day, for </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all God’s gifts to thee and in thee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt remember to take long walks out of doors and </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to listen to the birds</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> and smell the flowers and trees and </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to touch the Earth and sing to her, and</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> to have picnics </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">whenever possible.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not literalize thy metaphors, nor shalt thou </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">absolutize them into idols,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> for they merely attempt to </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">describe the indescribable.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt not hold thy brokenness against thyself, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">nor others’ against themselves.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt be creative and playful in thine own special </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">idiom, and delight thy Creator with thine ingenuity, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">which comes naturally and needs little cultivation.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt trust in thy Self as God trusts in thee, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to fulfill thy destiny and live thine experiment </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">with life lovingly.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt trust in God in thee and in all creatures.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Thou shalt be tenderly kind to thy Self and to Others. <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">And thou shalt remember to rejoice in thine intellect, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">senses, and holy emotions,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> and to make mutually </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">beneficial contact with all holy creation through them, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">relying always on thy creative power to heal thy Self </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">from within, which is God’s</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> birth gift to thee. </span><br />
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And thou shalt remember to ask for help in thy healing, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and thou shalt not be afraid to fulfill thy heart’s desire; </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and thou shalt in all things be willing for the divine </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Sheed and Ward</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"> 1995 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Transition~ A Time of Trust and Grace </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Make Friends with Your Fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Praying Your Way through Pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Meeting Your Inner Healer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Healing Addiction to Perfection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">When Good People Do Bad Things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Alla Renée Bozarth <br />
Yes International Publishers 1997</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a rare and wonderful gift of love. Poems of wonder </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and longing, loss and pain, desire and inestimable joy flow </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from the pen of a priest and psychotherapist who helps heal </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the rift between religion and the erotic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Turn your face</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Beloved, and rest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">your head against</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">How perfectly we fit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">when I stand, you sit,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">your ear leaning</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">When you listen,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">my whole life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">singing to you?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">My body's breath</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">carries your mind</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">You are the waterbird</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">When you listen,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I water under the moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">while the world sleeps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Awake with owls and bats,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the worker bee who never sleeps</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I give grasses their drink,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">whose moon-drenched yellow scent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">blossoms glow in the the dark, dancing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These 220 poems are mystic chalices, each filled to the brim with practical elixirs for improving one’s daily engaging of “ordinary” life. Drink deeply with this poet’s deft assistance. Whether you begin your “inner adventure” by consulting the stars or the flowers, you will spend many delightful hours returning to these luscious words of wisdom from the founder of Wisdom House. (I have.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alla’s own life story (her early widowhood, priestly duties, piano playing) weaves in and out of these prayerlike poems, touching time and again upon our universal and cosmic encounters with imperfection, blessing, loving and letting go, and daily bliss. For those who are guided by the Word, it is here in abundance and for every flower you pick in this garden, two will blossom in your heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">than human history,</span></div>
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iUniverse 2003</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i></i>Dancing the Labyrinth</b><br />
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There is a way <br />
to begin —<br />
meaningful movement<br />
is the child of stillness.<br />
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See where you are. <br />
You do not have to be <br />
anywhere else <br />
or better <br />
than you are.<br />
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Feel the Grace<br />
of the Earth and God <br />
through your soles. <br />
This is the pathway <br />
of soul.<br />
And it is<br />
a constant<br />
turning!<br />
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Let your feet find the ways <br />
to Oneness and lead <br />
your dancing heart.<br />
It is play.<br />
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The way allows <br />
wings and those <br />
who lumber.<br />
The way allows <br />
the bleeding <br />
and broken as well<br />
as the fit and strong. <br />
You may be feeble<br />
and frightened or <br />
you may feel <br />
invincible.<br />
Either way<br />
your inner angel<br />
will be the one <br />
to carry you.<br />
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The way is black<br />
and white and also <br />
living colors —<br />
all suggesting <br />
change.<br />
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It is paper.<br />
It is words.<br />
It is silence<br />
and snow.<br />
The way is<br />
stone<br />
from the mountain’s <br />
heart.<br />
It is desert floor <br />
and water.<br />
It is body<br />
and spirit.<br />
The way is <br />
mindfulness.<br />
It is the soul’s<br />
unbinding<br />
and the body’s<br />
healing.<br />
It is the cleansing<br />
of the mind’s eye.<br />
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Simply begin.<br />
At the center <br />
you will find <br />
your truest self <br />
and your birthplace <br />
at the heart of the rose. <br />
In the phoenix nest <br />
at the center <br />
you will die and<br />
be touched by fire.<br />
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When you return <br />
we will know you <br />
truly for the first time. <br />
We will welcome news <br />
you bring from home. <br />
Food you bring <br />
will ready us to follow. <br />
Songs you sing <br />
will call us into Mystery.<br />
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The only reason <br />
for going into <br />
the open heart <br />
of the labyrinth<br />
rose<br />
is to let your heart break <br />
open<br />
so that you can hear<br />
the first cry<br />
of creation<br />
when God birthed<br />
the universe,<br />
and you can<br />
become<br />
large enough<br />
to respond,<br />
let your whole<br />
life unfurl<br />
in all<br />
its magnificence<br />
and purity,<br />
and cry back<br />
to the Holy One<br />
with the beauty<br />
that will rise<br />
within you.<br />
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<b>Alla Renée Bozarth</b> <br />
Accidental Wisdom<br />
iUniverse 2003 </span></div>
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iUniverse 2003</span></div>
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iUniverse 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O Earth, wrap me in your leaves~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">heal me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let me fall </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">on your Earthbresat~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">feed me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">under the round nests</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in your cedar trees . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let my wounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and empty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Into your wonderful</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">compost heap . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let my wounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let me be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let me live</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Vietnam Docupoem</span></b><br />
Revised Edition<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">by Alla Renée Bozarth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Book Smart Blurb</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Copyright 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.blurb.com/b/9498355-vietnam-docupoem">https://www.blurb.com/b/9498355-vietnam-docupoem</a></span><br />
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<i>Winterfire: The Rebirth of Love</i><i><br />
<i>Love’s Alchemy</i><br />
<i>My Passion for Art</i><br />
<i>Purgatory Papers</i><br />
<i>Postcards from Paradise</i><br />
<i>Falling in Love with Fire</i><br />
<i>Falling in Love with Light</i><br />
<i>Kissed by Lightning and Left for Dead</i><br />
<i>Learning to Dance in Limbo</i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><i>Quartet</i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><i>My Blessed Misfortunes</i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><i>Diamonds in a Stony Field</i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><i>The Frequencies of Sound</i></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><i>The Frequency of Light</i></i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Also to be published over the next few years~</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two children’s stories with CD<br />
Four chapbooks <br />
Two interviews <br />
A third edition of: <i>Womanpriest</i><br />
A reprint of:<i> Six Days in St. Petersburg</i><br />
<i> </i>with a CD of Alla reading the book <br />
A reprint of <i>Stars in Your Bones </i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">and response: <a href="http://vietnamdocupoembyallabozarth.blogspot.com/">vietnamdocupoembyallabozarth.blogspot.com</a></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Vietnam</b><b> ~Veterans’ Day 2008-2012 Perspective</b></span></div>
<b> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On the Hundred Years' War 1914 - 2012 So Far</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">September 27, 1950</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> established </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the Military Assistance Advisory Group, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indochina</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to aid the French Military.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">November 1, 1955</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, as the French were leaving </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the location designation was changed from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indochina</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> established a direct combat advisory role to aid </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the South Vietnamese Army. This date is used to mark the official beginning </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of American military presence. The Department of Defense cites this </span></div>
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the earliest date for inclusion on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">December 11, 1961</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> aircraft carrier <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Core </i>arrives </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with 33 helicopters and 400 personnel to operate them. American pilots </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">begin flying combat missions with the South Vietnamese. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">August 7, 1964</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, Congress passes the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Gulf</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonkin Resolution</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to allow the President to take necessary steps including armed force to prevent<br />
attacks on </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> forces. Many regard this action as the start of the war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">March 8, 1965</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> the first combat troops arrive in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">3,500 Marines land on </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">China</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Beach</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to join 23,000 advisors already there </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and to protect the American air base at </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Da Nang</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. Some view the arrival </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> combat troops to be the start of the War, though military advisors </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">have been there for a decade.</span><br />
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There was never an actual declaration of war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I wanted to know who sent us, meaning the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On the first website I read, the history of American presence in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">from 1945-1975 is divided into Seeds of Conflict, America Commits,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Jungle War and The Bitter End.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After years of mostly self-imposed exile, Ho Chi Minh returned to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in 1941 and organized the Viet Minh, or Vietnam Independence League. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">For decades, he had traveled extensively and immersed himself in French, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">American and English cultures, but his political education began in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">France</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Recovering from tuberculosis, he spent time developing his thoughts in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Russia</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">China</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, drawing geographically and psychologically nearer to return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">During the Versailles Peace Talks f</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">ollowing what was then known as</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Great War, Ho had petitioned Western powers for recognition </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of the civil rights of the Vietnamese people in French Indochina~ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">but he was ignored. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">He appealed to President Woodrow Wilson, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">asking for help in removing the French from his country and replacing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">their rule with a new nationalist government~ but he was ignored. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> entered World War II, the American intelligence </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Office of Strategic Services aligned with Ho Chi Minh when Japanese guerillas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">occupied the jungle, to harass them out and to rescue downed American pilots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In March, 1945, based on rumors of imminent American invasion, Japanese<br />
soldiers ousted the independent French colonial government and took control<br />
of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> with Bao Dai as puppet leader.</span><br />
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That summer, famine seized the land. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Two million out of ten million died of starvation. Peasants revolted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Viet Minh gained in power, promising hope in the midst of turmoil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After the War, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> considered </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of little importance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in the peace settlements. Planning the post-war world in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Potsdam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">leaders regarded </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> as a minor item on the global agenda. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">~World War I had gone dormant and
seethed in the collective underground </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">of the European psyche, then woke
with vengeance as its consequences became</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">the prime psychological motivator of
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Germany</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">'s rage for
vengeance and power. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">World War I swirled in the
background of the human psyche to more than haunt</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">World War II. Similarly, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">’s living
ghost looms over the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Middle East</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">these nearly fifty years later,
phase six or seven of the second Hundred Years War— </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">all one long world wounding eruption
with cease-fire outbreaks of peace </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">here and there. The past is more
than a backdrop. It bleeds through into the present.~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In August, Bao Dai abdicates, the Japanese surrender </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and leave </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, and Ho Chi Minh’s guerillas occupy </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and proclaim a provisional government. On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">September 2, 1945</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Ho Chi Minh announces independence for </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> by quoting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">from the American Declaration of Independence supplied by the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">OSS</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“<b>We hold the truth that all men [sic] are created equal, that they are endowed</b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty </span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>and the pursuit of happiness.</b> This immortal statement is extracted from </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the Declaration of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Independence</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States of America</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> in 1776. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">These are undeniable truths.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
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Ho Chi Minh declares himself president of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and seeks recognition from the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,<br />
but President Harry Truman ignores him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">British forces arrive in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> on September 13. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In the North, 150,000 Chinese Nationalists march down from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">China</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">looting villages all along the way, and then looting </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. On September 22,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1400 French soldiers are released from Japanese internment camps and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">go on a rampage, attacking Viet Minh and murdering civilian women,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">children and men. Some of the 20,000 resident French civilians join </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the deadly assault. Two days later in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the Viet Minh organize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a successful strike and shut down all services. In a suburb, members</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of a violent criminal organization massacre 150 French and Eurasian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">civilians including children. Two days later on September 26, 1945—</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">as </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">OSS</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> officer Lt. Col. A. Peter Dewey is killed by Viet Minh guerrillas </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">who mistook him for a French officer. Before his death, Dewey had filed </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a report on the deepening crisis in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, stating his opinion that </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>the </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> “ought to clear out of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Southeast Asia</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.”</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In October, 35,000 French soldiers take arms under the command </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of a World War II French general, Jacques Philippe Leclerc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After some harassment, they expel the Viet Minh from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In February of ’46, the Chinese agree to leave </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">North Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and allow the French to resume control in exchange for the latter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In March, Ho Chi Minh allows the French to return to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> temporarily</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Chinese leave. That spring through summer Ho Chi Minh is in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Paris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">but without result. In June~ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in a major affront to Ho Chi Minh, </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the French high commissioner for </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indochina</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> proclaims a separatist </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">French-controlled government for </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In December, 1946, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the First Indochina War between the French and Viet Minh is mutually declared. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">It will last for eight years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Ho Chi Minh says,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“The fight will be long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and arduous, but our cause</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">is just and will surely win.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In October 1949, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mao Zedong's Communist forces defeat Chiang Kai-shek's </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Nationalist Army in the Chinese civil war. Mao's victory ignites American </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">anti-Communist sentiment regarding </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Southeast Asia</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and will result in </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a White House foreign policy goal of “containment” of Communist </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">expansion in the region. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">And so we begin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">June 30, 1950</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, Harry Truman sends ground troops </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">into </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Korea</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> after communist soldiers come down from the North.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We’re stuck in a bloody police action war until President Eisenhower ends it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on July 27 of 1953, four months after the death of Joseph Stalin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In Vietnam Ho Chi Minh has the blessings of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Russia</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">China</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and the French wars go on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">From the end of May through March of 1954, the French are cornered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and running out of food, water and medicine. They appeal to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Joint Chiefs of Staff discuss three options: send combat troops,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">send B-29 bomber planes, send atomic weapons {!}.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Britain</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> protests </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the latter two and Eisenhower decides not to rescue the French</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to avoid the likelihood of escalating the horror. </span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">At </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">5:30 p.m.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">May 7, 1954</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, 10,000 French soldiers surrender at </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Dien Bien Phu</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Four hundred thousand human beings from all sides, soldiers and civilians,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">men, women and children, had perished. On May 8, The </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Geneva</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Conference</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indochina</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> begins, the fate of the land to be decided by the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Britain</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">China</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Soviet Union</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">France</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Laos</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On July 21, [1954], the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Geneva</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Accords divide </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> in half at the 17<sup>th</sup> parallel,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Ho Chi Minh’s Communists granted the North, </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>Bao Dai’s regime granted the South.</i></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Provision is made for elections within two years to reunify the country, although</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Ngo Dinh Diem is appointed prime minister in the South, a Roman Catholic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in a Buddhist country who predicted another, bloodier war would follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">He encourages one million Roman Catholics in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">North Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to flee </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to the South, while 90,000 communists in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> go north,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">but under orders from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, 10,000 quietly remain. On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">October 26, 1955</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Republic</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> is proclaimed. President Eisenhower<br />
pledges support for the new government and offers military aid.</span><br />
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American military advisors and personnel </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Diem’s leadership is aloof and autocratic, despite American efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">He becomes increasingly harsh. On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">April 28, 1956</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the last French soldier</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">leaves </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. The French High Command for </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indochina</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> is dissolved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Diem refuses, under American influence, to participate in elections</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and their deadline passes without compliance with the Geneva Accords.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Trouble brews in the North and unrest is stifled by 6,000 killings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In May, 1957, Diem goes to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. Eisenhower says, “The cost </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of defending freedom, of defending </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, must be paid in many forms </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and in many places. . . . Military as well as economic help is currently needed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.” Obsessed with security, Diem spends little money on schools,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">clinics, or other badly needed social services. Communists in the countryside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">promise to give the people what they need to improve their lives. Guerillas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">attack the South and 400 officials are killed by year’s end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In March of 1959, Ho Chi Minh initiates the revolution by activating his</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">People’s War to reunite all </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. This begins the Second Indochina War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Ho Chi Minh trail starts being constructed through 1500 miles of jungle </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and mountain passes from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">North Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> along the western border and into</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Laos</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to funnel a steady stream of soldiers and supplies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">into </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. By July, 4,000 guerillas born in the South and trained</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in the North have infiltrated </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> in readiness for war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">July 8, 1959</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, two American military advisors<br />
are killed by Viet Minh guerillas 20 miles north of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,<br />
the first American casualties of the Second Indochina War, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">known in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> simply as the Vietnam War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I was twelve years old, but I still hadn’t heard of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On May 12, 1961, three days before my 14<sup>th</sup> birthday, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">President Kennedy orders 100 special forces troops to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">December 11, 1961</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, 33 helicopters are sent with 400 air </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and ground crew to operate them for </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On December 22, James Davis of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Livingston</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tennessee</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
is shot down by Viet Cong. Later, President Johnson called him<br />
the first American to fall in defense of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our</i> freedom in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, it seems, is no longer fighting to help the Vietnamese,<br />
but to defend itself <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On my 15<sup>th</sup> birthday, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">May 15, 1962</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, in response to Communist attacks in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Laos</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">President Kennedy orders 5,000 troops to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Thailand</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to defend the Thai borders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">November 1, 1963</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, President Diem and his brother are assassinated </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. After that, “one coup follows another.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In June, 1964, Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> ambassador in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">It was reported— and much later, too late, repudiated— that two </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> destroyers, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“Maddox” and “C. Turner Joy” were attacked in the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Gulf</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonkin</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on August 2<sup>nd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On August 4<sup>th</sup>, a </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> retaliatory strike destroyed 25 North Vietnamese boats </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">at their bases. In the Pentagon Papers, it was reported that a cable </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">from the U.S commander of the destroyer task force stated that there was </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“No actual visual sighting . . . Suggest complete evaluation<br />
before any further action.” </span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Aug 7, 64</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> – </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Congress approves </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Gulf</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonkin</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> resolution affirming all </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> . . . to prevent further aggression . . . {and} assist any member </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of protocol state of the Southeast Asian Collective Defense Treaty {SEATO} </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">requesting assistance . . .” US Senate voted {88-2} passed – </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Senator Wayne Morse {D-Oregon} and Senator Ernest Gruening {D-Alaska} </i><br />
<i>voted against the resolution. US House voted {414-0} passed.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Fall 1964 – US turns down an offer of secret peace talks with North Vietnam.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I was a seventeen year old Oregonian<br />
and proud of my senator’s dissenting vote, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">though it made no difference.</span></div>
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In the Fall of 1965, I was on a train traveling through southern </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
on my way to northern </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Italy</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, reading the New York Herald Tribune, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">European Edition. Sick with horror I put down the paper and said out loud </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to the young American woman who was the only other passenger<br />
in the compartment~~“Isn’t it terrible~ what’s going on in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">?”<br />
Her response chilled me to the bone: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh, it’s so far away I don’t even pay attention or care.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Johnson had already ordered a retaliatory air strike that February in response </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to an assault on barracks at Pleiku where American advisors were housed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">killing eight of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Our President took it as a personal insult and activated Operation Rolling Thunder </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">which let loose a fury that lasted three years.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">8 Mar 65</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Two </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Marine battalions arrived on the beach at DaNang </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in full battle gear. . . . . They were met not by enemy fire, </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>but by curious onlookers. . . . One soldier said, </i><br />
<i>“The war was nowhere in sight.”</i></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">16 Mar 65</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Alice Herz, an 82-year-old survivor of Nazi terror, </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>set herself on fire in </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Detroit</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> shortly after President Johnson announced </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>major troop increases and the bombing of </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">North Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">20 May 65 - </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> restates its peace proposal </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>which </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> has already rejected.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">2 Nov 65</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire and died </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>outside Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s Pentagon office, </i><br />
<i>a scene McNamara witnessed</i></span><br />
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</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">9 Nov 65</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Catholic Worker Roger LaPorte immolated himself opposite </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the United Nations building as an anti-war protest</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1965 - The </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Congress provided $2.4 Billion for the Vietnam war effort, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with little dissent in the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> House or Senate</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jan 66 thru Oct 68 - </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> bombs dropped on </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">N. Vietnam</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> total over 600,000 tons</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">29 Jan 66</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - US begins bombing around </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Haiphong</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">N. Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This is considered a major escalation of the air war.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Mar 66</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - An attempt to repeal </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Gulf</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonkin</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> resolution </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">was defeated in the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Senate.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Then, two years later, on </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">March 16, 1968</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the My Lai Massacre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">An entire village of mostly young children, women and old men </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">was systematically, savagely, grotesquely and gratuitously murdered </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In the still-dark early morning of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">January 31, 1968</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the first day </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of the Vietnamese lunar New Year, the Tet Offensive began, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to wear down and then overthrow the separatist rebellion in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In August, protests erupt from<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and the Yippies in Grant Park concurrently with<br />
the Democratic National Convention in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Chicago</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I move to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Chicago</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> six months later and ride the wake of the storm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">for the next seven years, in Midwestern educational exile<br />
from my beautiful Pacific Northwestern home state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I learn more than I ever counted on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Black friends are murdered in 1969, some of them by the Chicago Police. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The affable and competent black secretary of the Urban Training Center </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">where I spent a month that winter was murdered and immediately</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">became a cold case file. Black Panther Fred Hampton was murdered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in his bed during a violent 4am raid by the Chicago Police that December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I had spoken with him for half an hour the night before when I called</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to volunteer for the Panther's community service school breakfast program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Campbell, a black Episcopal lay minister in the Diocese of Chicago,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">was attacked while walking his dog in integrated and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">normally friendly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hyde Park</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and ministering to street people on his regular rounds one night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Three drunk white male medical students pulled him off the sidewalk into </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">their car and dragged him upside down with his head on the pavement at high </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">speed, finally banging it up on the wall of a viaduct until he was all but dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and dumping him. It took him a month in Cook County Hospital to die.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I had been a guest in his home and broken bread and prayed at his table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and waved goodbye to him when he went out to make his ministry rounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Along with a legion of other friends I spent most of that long, sweltering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">summer month at Cook County Hospital, meeting humanity on new terms </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and hearing their stories from the injured, the sick, the dying, their families </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and the noble doctors and nurses who humbly served them </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and anguished with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Joanie, Charles' white wife and my friend, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">showed me the stab wound in his side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">When the police came they said </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">it looked like he'd been punched with a ball point pen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The wound was broad and deep as can be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The families of the murderers paid off a judge to dismiss the case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">No justice was even attempted by the authorities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Bishop came. The Governor came. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">A steady stream of Chicago dignitaries awed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the compassionate and dismayed mostly white medical staff, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">many of whom attended his funeral, sobbing. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Months afterward, I visit a black prisoner in Cook County Jail </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">as a favor to his sister, deliver messages of care from his family </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and engage in conversation with a black prison guard his age</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">who tells me, "We're all prisoners here."<br />
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I pray and sing at Operation Bread Basket<br />
led by Jesse Jackson on Saturday Mornings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and with the Urban Training Center participants</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">join Jesse and the congregation in a Hunger Caravan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by bus to bear witness to racism and injustice against the poor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on the capital steps in Springfield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I keep up with peace vigils locally throughout those years. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">31 Oct 68</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - President Johnson announced he would halt all bombing </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on through 1972— over 25,000 sorties were flown, </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">More of same from President Nixon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Paris Peace Talks go on and get nowhere . . . again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">September 3, 1969</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, Ho Chi Minh dies of a heart attack at 79.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">December 1, 1969</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, Nixon announces the first draft lottery in 27 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I hit the streets with the rest of despairing </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,<br />
including members of Congress, clergy, and Dr. Spock.<br />
We pray </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">noon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> vigils for peace in the middle of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Lake Shore Drive</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">north of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Chicago</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, and on the White House steps.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">2 Dec 69</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - US House approved {334-5}) a resolution endorsing Nixon's efforts </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to achieve “peace with justice,” following a 2 day debate. This was the first </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">major </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> policy declaration since the 1964 </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Gulf</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tonkin</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> resolution.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">expressing pessimism concerning the course of the negotiations.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of “nearly 1,000 plain clothes investigators working out of some 200 offices </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">from coast to coast” who wrote reports on “political protests of all kinds.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The domestic intelligence operation stored and disseminated information </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on both groups and individuals who “might cause trouble of the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Army.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Senator Ervin reported in December 1970 that he was informed the surveillance </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">included 800 </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Illinois</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> citizens including Senator Adlai Stevenson, III {PD-ILL}, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“apparently anyone who in the Army's definition was ‘left of center’ </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">was a prospective candidate for political surveillance.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">During lengthy Senate hearings on the Army's activities, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Defense Secretary Laird ordered the spying stopped.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and Hatfield announced they planned to introduce an “end the war” </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">amendment which would work by suspending funds for military operations </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Laos</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia.</span></i><br />
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<i>by </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Ohio</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest on the campus. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This led to widening anti-war protests.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I join the countrywide student moratorium, put on my black arm band and, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">though attending most of my classes, forfeit the A grade my professors bemoaned </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I’d denied them by choosing the pass-fail option </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Northwestern</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">University</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">had offered us, so I could be ready for any eventuality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> was as tense as it could be.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">9 May 70 - A peaceful anti-war rally held at the Ellipse in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">DC</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">was attended by about 80,000 people including about 10 members of Congress.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Sep 70</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - The McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, providing for the withdrawal </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of all </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> troops by </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">31 Dec 71</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, was defeated by the Senate now and again later</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1970 - War Powers - By the time Congress learned that the naval incident </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>leading to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution {1964} had been misrepresented</i><br />
<i>and moved to repeal the resolution in 1970, President Nixon had already </i><br />
<i>shifted to another legal rationale – his constitutional powers </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>as </i><i>“Commander in Chief” – for his Vietnam policies. </i></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In its 1969 “national commitments” resolution, the Senate made a bid </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to reassert a congressional voice in decisions committing the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to the defense of foreign countries. The House passed war-powers </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">measures in 1970, 1971 and 1972.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Shades of things to come. A war based on an “untruth.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">From </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Southeast Asia</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of the sixties and seventies to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Iraq</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
at the turn of the millennium. </span></div>
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Then another Republican president wanted to replace the Constitution </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with his own whim and will. Neither then nor now will </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> stand for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">March 29, 1971</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, Lieutenant Calley was convicted for the My Lai Massacre, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">though his full term was not served. The next day, it was later revealed,<br />
a confidential Army directive ordered mail to be censored and all mail<br />
with anti-war sentiment prevented from going to soldiers in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,<br />
including letters of concern from their families.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">7 Apr 71 - During a speech, President Nixon said that in relation to </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>setting a firm date for troop withdrawal, it would </i><br />
<i>“serve the enemy's purpose, not our own.”</i></span></div>
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</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">18 Apr 71</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - 2,300 </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Veterans came to </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">DC</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> to participate </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in Dewey Canyon III, “a military incursion into the country of Congress.”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Led by </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Veterans Against the War {VVA}), the vets camped on the mall </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1/4 mile from the Capitol, and threw away military medals and ribbons </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">at the foot of the statue of Chief Justice John Marshall.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">24 Apr 71</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - 10 days of protests by a group calling themselves </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>"The Mayday Tribe" included attempted work stoppages </i><br />
<i>at several federal offices in </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">DC.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">3 May 71 - 5,100 policemen backed by 10,000 federal troops resulted in </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">an unprecedented mass arrest of approximately 7,000 persons, with another </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">2,700 arrested the next day. Protests ended 5 May with the arrest of another </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1,200 demonstrators on the Capitol’s east steps during a rally attended </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by some members of Congress.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">9 Jun 71</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - The Senate adopted an amendment authorizing drug control </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and rehabilitation programs in the military.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">June 71 - Pentagon Papers published.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">17 June 71</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Congressman Charles Whalen, Jr {R-Ohio} co-sponsored </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">an “end the war” bill which was rejected by the House {158-255}.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Jul 71</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - During the peace talks, the Viet Cong proposed the return of all </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">American and allied prisoners held in North and </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> by the end </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of 1971 if all </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> troops were withdrawn within that same period. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> reaction was cautious.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In February, 1972, a good thing happened. President Nixon visited </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the People’s Republic of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">China</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, opening the door between East and West </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and beginning a conversation, almost a separate reality, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a separate universe and mind zone from the continuing tragedy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of the countries to the south.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">And then Nixon did some very bad things.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">17 Jun 72</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Watergate break-in and attempted bugging </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>of the Democratic Party Headquarters</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">And let us not forget the famous missing 18 minutes of taped conversations </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">about this, presumably the erasure work of an Oval Office secretary. </span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">27 Oct 72</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Nixon “pocket vetoed” </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>the Veteran's Health Care Expansion Act of 1972. </i><br />
<i>The health care act would have authorized expenditure </i><br />
<i>of $85 million in 1973 for expanding health care services </i><br />
<i>for veterans and their dependents.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Oct 72 - The Supreme Court was steadfast in refusing to rule </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on the constitutionality of American involvement in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">As late as Oct 72, the court voted 7-2 to decline to hear a case </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in which taxpayers challenged the use of foreign aid funds to </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">finance American operations in </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> (Sarnoff vs. Schultz). </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Justices Douglas and Brennan disagreed with the court's hands-off </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">attitude since the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to declare war, they said, and thus “{implicitly}bars its exercise </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by the executive branch.”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Dec 72 - Peace talks stopped due to a change in the Communist's position. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The heaviest US bombing of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">North Vietnam of the war followed </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>18-30 Dec during Operation Linebacker II which included </i><br />
<i>129 B-52 bombers striking </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hanoi</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">As the world assumed World War II was practically over </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">just before the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Battle</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> of the Bulge, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the most horrific combat yet that awful winter of ‘44-‘45,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with the firebombing wipe-out of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Dresden</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> yet ahead~ so now in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">8 Jan 73</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Final stage of peace talks began that would lead to </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the signing of a </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> cease fire on 27 Jan.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">23 Jan 73</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - President Nixon announced an agreement “to end the war </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">27 Jan 73</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Official end of the Vietnam War. </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<i>Between 27 Jan and 29 Mar 73, a total of 587 military and civilian </i><br />
<i>prisoners were released by the North Vietnamese, and </i><br />
<i>during that same period, 23,500 US troops </i><br />
<i>were withdrawn from South Vietnam.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">29 Mar 73</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - 67 more </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> POWs were freed in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. The same day, </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This date also marked the actual end of military involvement in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">10 May 73</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Due to continued bombing of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Laos</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, the House voted </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">{219-188} for the first time to cut-off </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Indochina</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> funds.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">31 May 73 - The Senate took strong action prohibiting the use of any funds </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">appropriated by Congress to be used for combat activities in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Laos</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> or </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">7 Nov 73</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> – The War Powers Act: Congress dealt President Nixon </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a stunning setback when it voted to override his veto of legislation</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>limiting presidential powers to commit US forces abroad </i><br />
<i>without congressional approval. </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Congress, with the Vietnam War and the showdown over </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">continued bombing in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> behind it, was anxious to reassert its role </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in the conduct of the country’s foreign affairs.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">And finally~ </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Aug 74 - President Nixon resigns.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">16 Sep 74</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - President Ford unveiled a conditional clemency program </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">for Vietnam-era military deserters and draft evaders.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">9 Mar 75</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - A major offensive begins against </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> with an attack </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on Ban Me Thuot in the </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Central Highlands</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> – </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">South Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> fell in 55 days.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">17 Apr 75</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Cambodian government surrenders to Khmer Rouge forces.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">29 Apr 75</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Last American soldier killed in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> {the first was </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">8 Jul 59</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">}. </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<i>The official American presence in </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> ends </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>when the last Americans are evacuated </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">by helicopter from the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Embassy roof. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Within hours the Saigon government surrenders to the VC.</span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Fall of Saigon</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br />Saigon was captured by the People’s Army of Vietnam <br />and the National Liberation Front officially on April 30, 1975,<br />and the process of reunification and the transition of South Vietnam </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">into a communist state began.<br /> </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Barack Obama, elected 44<sup>th</sup> president of the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">United States of America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
in August, 2008, was thirteen years old when the last Americans left </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">1979 - Western European countries and non-Communist Asian nations support </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US-led embargo in protest against </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">’s 1978 invasion of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">August 1982~ Senator Mark Hatfield, Senator Edward Kennedy and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Representative Edward Markey sponsor a nuclear freeze resolution, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> which the House of Representatives defeats 204-202.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Despite their failure, the collaborations of progressive Democrats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Senator George McGovern (in 1970) and later (1982) Senator Ted Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with my home state Republican Senator Mark Hatfield</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">remains to this day uplifting to my heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Their efforts are on record as an emblam of our hopes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">for unity of spirit across party lines in America.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Sep 88 - Vietnam-US cooperation begins regarding American MIAs</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with first joint field investigation.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Sep 89 - Vietnam completes Cambodia withdrawal.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Apr 91 - US office is established in Hanoi to investigate American MIAs.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Oct 91 - </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> takes steps to normalize relations with </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">after </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> supports UN peace plan for </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Cambodia.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Dec 91 - Washington lifts ban on organized US travel to Vietnam.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">29 Apr 92</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - Trade embargo is eased to allow commercial sales to </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and establishment of a telecommunications link.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">14 Dec 92</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - President George Bush grants permission for US companies </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>to open offices, sign contracts and do feasibility studies in </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">3 Feb 94</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - President Bill Clinton lifts trade embargo.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">27 Jan 95</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - US and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> settle old property claims and establish </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>liaison offices in </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">15 May 95 - </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> gives US presidential delegation documents on MIAs.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">That was my 48<sup>th</sup> birthday.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jul 95 - The US restores diplomatic relations with Vietnam.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Aug 95 - The </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">US</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Embassy in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> reopens.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">16 Apr 97</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> - A copyright protection agreement is reached, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">said to be a step toward Most Favored Nation status.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">9 May 97 - Ambassador Douglas “Pete” Peterson starts new post in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jun 97 - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright makes an official visit. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In August, 2009, former Lieutenant William Calley tells a small group<br />
of Kiwanis Club members in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Columbus</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Georgia</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, near where<br />
he had been court martialed, “There is not a day that goes by<br />
that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">My Lai</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.<br />
I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After 41 years, this is his first known public apology<br />
for the massacre of about 500 villagers ~ mostly women, children<br />
and the elderly including a few men. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">They were all unarmed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Some had been sexually abused, beaten and tortured,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">There was no evidence that any of the civilians were Viet Cong<br />
or had associations with Viet Cong.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The killings were assumed to have been revenge murders<br />
and a convenient opportunity to express sadistic rage<br />
under the protection of “following orders.”<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Dishonorable conduct is not unheard of during the stresses and<br />
high emotions of fear and anger that are kept fully charged during war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Given license under the guise of patriotism<br />
to revert to rule by the reptilian brain, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">human beings are still inclined to behave appallingly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">War can make devils of once decent men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Parallels have been drawn between the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">My Lai</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Massacre<br />
and certain events during the current War in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Iraq</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, particularly<br />
the murders in 2005 of 24 Iraqi citizens at Haditha, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">at least 15 of them non-combatant civilians,<br />
as an act of outraged retribution by American</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">soldiers, a dynamic also present in the documented atrocities<br />
committed against prisoners of war held as suspects<br />
by American military at Abu Grahib. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On March 11, 2012, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales,<br />
a man with a history of alcohol abuse and civilian violence,<br />
during his fourth deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan went berserk and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">viciously massacred villagers, gunning down nine Afghan children<br />
and eight adults, and desecrating some of their bodies. . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">To bring threads together into this still-globally-tragic present time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">my own story enters the picture through a series of sacred friendships. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Now we go back to more than three decades ago to find the unifying </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">threads, stopping to view a scene at the end of this part of the story, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a picture of sweet resolution~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">During the early part of the first decade of the new millennium,<br />
my own dear friend Jean Jachman returns to Southeast Asia<br />
and has lunch with her South Vietnamese/American friend Luyen<br />
at a </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">French </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">sidewalk café in Hanoi where Luyen now lives and works,<br />
drinking wine and laughing in the clean spring air </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with flowers blooming beside them as they reminisce about their time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">together in the refugee camp on the Thai border in 1982.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jean met Luyen during her three months there in 1982. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">She later returned for four months in 1984, and to another camp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">for six months in 1987, each time as a nurse with a U.S. medical </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">team under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Luyen had walked 700 miles from Saigon through the jungles </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of Cambodia to freedom and a bath at Nong Samet camp </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on the Thai border. After she got a little rest, she organized </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a softball team and a choir and became a tiny protective </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">angel of the Vietnamese Hospital that served a fragile </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">population of two thousand in the vast tent city of over </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">100,000 Cambodian refugees with a history of hostility </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">toward Vietnamese. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jean commissioned Luyen {in her spare time!}<br />
to embroider an exquisite stole vestment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">for me to wear as I celebrate the priestly mysteries<br />
of Great Thanksgiving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The stole is made of natural raw silk<br />
backed with deep iridescent blue-red. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">On the front, draping down on both sides,<br />
it is finely embroidered with bright sunset pink </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">lotuses said to have sprung up from the footprints<br />
of the baby Buddha, symbolizing transformation of the soul<br />
born in the muck and mire of existence and bravely pushing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">its way upward to break through clear water,<br />
its beautiful face radiant in sunlight~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and above them at my shoulders, Chinese symbols<br />
the color and shape of the sun~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">one representing the Goodness of God~ a human being working in a field~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and the Mercy of God~ a human being working in a field with help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">At the bottom, Luyen twice tore out the two long parallel crosses<br />
she’d formed into intersecting rows of flowers by pulling threads<br />
through the fabric from the back and tying them. Her sweat and skin fibers<br />
are on each thread, with the red dust of the refugee camp that constantly<br />
was stirred up from the earth beneath so many hopeful feet readying<br />
for a new life in a free land.<br /><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The stole, while I am alive, will never be washed of its sacred contents, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and after I’ve left my body to return to the elements </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of fire, water, earth and</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> air, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">it will be draped across its shoulders </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">over my wedding dress and my husband’s wedding shirt, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">both painstakingly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">made by my mother of royal blue velvet, white satin and seed pearls </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in the seventeenth century style of the Russian nobility of her motherland~</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">My soul will be celebrating Mama's and Luyen's long-worked-for outcomes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">both in art and life~ their courage and hard lives as war refugees and their </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">long, harsh journeys to America after their homes were destroyed by revolutions </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in Russia and Vietnam . . . and I'll be remembering the first martyrs of the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam War who bore witness to peace in drastic terms on American ground~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Alice Hertz, the 82 year old Holocaust survivor<br />
who had set fire to her body in anguished protest against<br />
our deadly aggressions in Southeast Asia in early Spring, 1965~<br />
Norman Morrison, the Quaker who followed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">her with his own immolation in front of the Pentagon<br />
while our Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara<br />
watched in early winter that year~ and Roger LaPorte, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the Catholic Worker who followed one week later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Alice Hertz, the 82 year old Holocaust survivor<br />
who had set fire to her own body in anguished protest against<br />
our deadly aggressions in Southeast Asia in early Spring, 1965~<br />
Norman Morrison, the Quaker who followed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">her with his own immolation in front of the Pentagon<br />
while our Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara<br />
watched in early winter that year~ and Roger LaPorte, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the Catholic Worker who followed one week later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Twelve years after Jean had presented me with Luyen’s stole,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">before the birth of her child, in the summer of 1994 the artist herself </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">came to visit me in my home at the foot of the mountain in western </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Oregon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Her English husband Robin (at that time a worker for<br />
the international organization, Food for the Hungry)<br />
took our picture, the stole draped around both our shoulders, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">arms around each other, standing and smiling among the full-blooming roses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Luyen herself was the most sacred aspect of the gift, one who had lived through </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and embodied the mysteries of transformation from suffering and degradation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">into redemptive light and joy and fulfilling love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Luyen’s father had been a youthful colleague of Ho Chi Minh<br />
when they were both idealistic patriots devoted to serving their country,<br />
leaders referred to simply as the Boy from the South and the Boy from the North.<br />
That was before the division, before our war in their country.<br />
The war that will never be over for Americans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The war that still hurts us.<br />
Hurts its veterans and their families.<br />
Hurts the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The war that seems to play out again </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on a new bloody stage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">And wretched people on the outside of it like me are hurt too,<br />
for being on the outside and unable to know yet relieved not to know<br />
what it’s like to gather and scrape fragments of human bodies,<br />
whether of comrades or so-called enemies or your own comrades in arms, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to breathe in their ashes like pollen and be filled with the smell of death,<br />
to hear their skin and flesh rip away from their bones beside you,<br />
like lightning-struck trees whose sap boils and explodes the whole tree,<br />
to hear the cries of children as they leave their bodies flying </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">through the air in a billion atomized pieces that are now<br />
glued forever to the petrified trees, to the faces of ancient stone temples,<br />
to our undetached yet distant minds, to the witnessing stars,<br />
to the reflective and mournful warriors with hair as white as<br />
their still living fathers’ who fought in the wars before theirs,<br />
who gather together with their Second World War/Korea/Vietnam veteran<br />
fathers and their Bosnia/Panama/ Iraq/Afghanistan veteran sons to try to heal<br />
their souls a little through poetry retreats across our land this Veterans’ Day, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">a week after our country has elected its first biracial president,<br />
Barack Hussein Obama, and heard his solemn, inspired acceptance speech<br />
from historic Grant Park in Chicago~~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">words of a poetic, elegant, faithful family man and scholar, a man of humility,<br />
wisdom and grace, of well-grounded temperament and soaring intelligence,<br />
and the first president in my lifetime who brings with him a government<br />
that makes me truly proud and full of hope to be an American.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
The true beautiful blue spirit of Americans has given our country back </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">to us, so that we, the people, can work together to rebuild its integrity<br />
and give it back its soul. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Post Script~</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Four years later and another election campaign year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is exhausted, battered by wars and economic
catastrophe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Audacious
hope is tired but true among the wise who want to give</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
country a two-term chance with a new true blue Congress</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that
will abandon the current one-agenda obstructionist policy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of
the last four years, despite the efforts of our president</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to
break through its calcifications and lack of heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reform
has been bound and gagged. George Packard, retired</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Episcopal
Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces, was arrested</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for
the second time in five months on May Day evening at </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Friends of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Veterans</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Plaza</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> at </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">55 Water Street</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manhattan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in alliance with the Occupy Wall Street Movement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
December he was arrested leading a group of people over </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a
fence to occupy a vacant lot adjacent to Trinity Church Wall Street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
May the press dubbed him the People’s Bishop. He is serious </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in
his quest to live the Gospel and lead the movement for restored</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">integrity
with vigor. Trained as a young man to be a killing machine </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, he confesses his crimes against humanity, the
hundreds </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of
killings he felt duty-bound to perform without emotion, the night killings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">that
still haunt his sleep and guide his waking acts of atonement now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He
passionately and ceaselessly acts against, writes about and bears </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">witness
to government injustices and institutional inaction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He
challenges the clergy and everyone to take to the streets and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">speak
out, to risk arrest as a badge of honor and not to flee from danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He
is a prophet of these times. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bishop
Packard was born in the year after the end of World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
was born two years after the end of World War II. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
am sixty-five years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
italicized chronological sections of this document </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<i>have been lifted, mostly unedited, from two websites:</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">15<sup>th</sup>
Field Artillery Regiment, 1917– 2008 ~ World War I, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">World War II</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Korea</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vietnam</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Panama</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bosnia</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Iraq</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Afghanistan</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,<br />
and <b>The </b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">History
Place</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
Presents the Vietnam War.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Luyen Trong Shell at Nong Samet </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Refugee Camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Photo by Jean Jachman</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, 1982. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jean and Luyen pose with the Lotus Stole which Luyen created.<br />
Present in the lower right corner are three shadows of other people who live<br />
in the camp, a war refuge city of over 100,000 human beings. Many children<br />
grew up in camps such as Nong Samet on the Cambodia/Thailand border.<br />
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When the film, <i>The Killing Fields </i>came out in 1984, Jean and I watched it<br />
together. Jean had grabbed her mail as she left her house and brought it with her.<br />
After the movie, for the only time in my life save one, I said, "I need a drink."<br />
Normally that means hot tea. I sipped half of my glass of French wine as Jean<br />
reached into her handbag and pulled out her mail. At the top was a thin blue<br />
aerogram from Nong Samet. She read the letter aloud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">A passage in it went like this: <i>In school today the children are practicing</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>by reading out loud and then writing a few words about their lesson. . . .</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>We were in the middle of this learning time when the noises of war</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>came very close. School stopped for awhile because of the war<span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;">,</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>but now we are back and I am writing to you again. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Please excuse the interruption.</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Hanoi Spring</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> for Luyen and Jean</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Thirty years after the War— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">recalling her father’s memory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of fighting against the French</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">some decades before, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the Boy from the South allied</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">with Ho Chi Minh, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the Boy from the North, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">then no longer an ally</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">but an old man leaving his life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">while her mother, his wife,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">languished in the Mekong Delta</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">as the new fighting waged on— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the daughter now sits serenely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">decades away from </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Saigon</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">at a pristine sidewalk table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in the sunshine with her Thai border </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Nong Samet refugee camp co-worker and friend since</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">that place and time in the early eighties, both of them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">enjoying the day, drinking an elegant French wine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and sharing the familiar communion </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">of lunch between women, far away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">from their normal new lives in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">America</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">far away from the resonant past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in which their lives were bonded by Grace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and marveling at where they were</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and what they were doing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">at this French restaurant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on a fresh spring day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hanoi</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i> </i><b>Purgatory Papers</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i><b> </b></i><b> </b>Copyright 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shown above is the lotus
stole, designed and created by Luyen Trong Shell in </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">1982 at Nong Samet Refugee Camp
near the town of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aranyaprathet</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thailand</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">where foreign workers lived at night. It is worn
here in August, 1986, by the Rev.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alla Renée Bozarth for the wedding of John and Patricia Ciminello at
the Bishop’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Close gardens in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Portland</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oregon</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. It has been worn at
an ecumenical liturgy for </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ordained women of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pacific Rim</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">island</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oahu</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> which was attended by </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jean Jachman, and at Holy Eucharist on the shore of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sea of Galilee</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, later to be </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">shown in the 1987 Easter Sunday front page of the Minneapolis <i>Star Tribune.</i> It has been </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">worn for
Wisdom House services and sacraments in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and Oregon</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> regularly </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for the
past 30 years. Red dust from the floor of the refugee camp and the artist’s
skin </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cells remain in the fabric and make it all the more holy, keeping her
creative work </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ever present as its beauty nurtures the eyes and souls of those
who participate in </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the services where it is worn.</span></div>
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<b>The Veteran </b><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is admirable on
the large scale is monstrous on the small. . . .</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Since we give medals
to mass murderers, let us give justice to the small entrepreneur. </i> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Dialogue in the film, “The Night of the Generals”
1967.</span></div>
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If you know someone and sooner or later discover</div>
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that he or she is a veteran of war, look into that person’s
eyes</div>
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and learn your first lesson of war—</div>
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that there is more inside the skull</div>
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of someone who has been in combat</div>
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than can be known by anyone,</div>
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including the warrior.<br />
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The secrets held in the skull have to do with the essential
conflict</div>
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never being over— the personal conflict, the conflict that
goes on, </div>
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sleeping or waking every hour of that person’s life— the
memories,</div>
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thoughts, eruptive emotions that go unexpressed</div>
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lest others be overwhelmed, lest the veteran be
misunderstood.<br />
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The horrible Thing Itself that cannot be told, the
compelling intensity</div>
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of the experience, the faces, the images~ as the medic’s
memory</div>
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of a woman’s corpse found without her head, but both her hands
still</div>
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wrapped securely around the body of the baby she was holding
in her lap~</div>
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the two young “enemy” warriors lying side by side, twelve or
fourteen years old, </div>
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rifles still clutched in their hands or lying beside them, each
shot through his thin </div>
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wool cap the day before, the blue matter of their brains still
coming out </div>
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of a nostril or oozing from under a cap . . .<br />
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the urgency to continue issuing strategic orders from inside
the ruined castle</div>
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when, a second before, a bomb has come through an opening in
the stone wall</div>
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and blown a colleague across the desk from you to high
heaven, splattering </div>
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his brains on your face and the maps at your fingers, but
you must not stop </div>
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telling those in the air what to do because more lives are
depending on you </div>
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to do your job, and soon the medics come to remove the body
parts </div>
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of the person who was helping you five minutes ago and wipe
them </div>
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from your face and from the maps while you go on talking </div>
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into your telephone to those whose lives depend on </div>
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your full focus and intelligent attention . . .<br />
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The secrets are a mixture of guilt with glory,</div>
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dread and terror and the thrill of the compelling intensity</div>
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known only in the extreme circumstances of war—</div>
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The addictive drama of danger, the intimate devotion</div>
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among comrades tenderly serving each other’s broken,</div>
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infected bodies and minds, a familial intimacy not possible
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or experience anywhere or anytime or with anyone else on
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The puzzling bitterness and rage of hate and desire for
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with an increasing repulsion to the slightest violation of
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The nausea of combat conditions and the heartbreaking
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of those who sacrifice themselves to save others.<br />
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The sheer human anger and shame, the bewilderment</div>
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that come from being raised to follow the Ten Commandments </div>
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that say, “Thou shalt not kill,” and then trained and paid
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a legally licensed professional killer for as many years as
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obeying orders to kill while praying for protection and
victory, followed by </div>
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the shock of going home to a peaceful, harmonious place
innocent of war </div>
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where you would be arrested, imprisoned, tried and executed as
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or serial killer for doing the same things you did every day in the years before,<br />
the things for which your government
perhaps gave you a medal, knowing<br />
that this same government would now shame
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for any number of things that it trained and
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No one else can go into a veteran’s dreams </div>
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and shared the same quirky joys.<br />
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and before you speak, and do not ask any questions unless
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truly willing and able to listen, and for as long as it
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without judgment or fatigue.<br />
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If you look inside yourself you will find the willingness and
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when you discover the cowering hero that lives in us all,</div>
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the ashamed, frightened and vulnerable soldier who may hide
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to serve the greatest good for the greatest number, or for
just one child.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The War</span></b>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">October, 2007, and from unforgettable scenes
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Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-81583588865706199222011-11-15T20:32:00.001-08:002017-06-05T19:16:21.542-07:00Consecration:The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde~ Bishop of the Diocese of Washington D.C. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>On </b><b>Saturday, November 12, 2011</b>, <b>The Rt. Rev. Dr. Mariann Budde </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her November 12 Consecration was attended by members of her parish who presented her with her vestments during the traditional liturgical Presentation of Gifts. Dr. Budde knocked on the Cathedral doors as is the liturgical custom, symbolizing permission to enter and accept her new office. The doors were opened and a joyful congregation welcomed her to the enactment of her new calling to be a bishop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is photographed during the service kneeling then standing before the altar, presenting herself without ecclesiastical vestments but wearing a simple white alb in silent prayer, then responding to questions which are traditionally asked of an ordinand ensuring that she or he is a women or man of faith who is willing to undertake the office of deacon, priest or bishop and fulfill its obligations with integrity. It seems a lonely, even a stark moment, but it exists within the surroundings of the entire Communion of Souls, referred to in <i>The Apostles’ Creed </i>as the Communion of Saints, souls seen and unseen, on Earth and in Heaven. The image of this physically small and in that moment vulnerable woman captures the mystery of what it means to be simultaneously alone before God and deeply immersed in the the human family, indeed the family of Creation, the family of Heaven.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A photograph taken later and posted in <i>The Washington Post</i> Photo Gallery shows Mariann fully vested but again alone, walking from the main entrance toward her place near the altar. Her willingness to take her position as a leader and minister among the people is crucial in these liturgical moments, the purpose for the ritual expression of movement and also what she is wearing ~ on the one hand, the plain white garment of a humble person of any class, on the other hand, the most festive, colorful garments imaginable, also representing free spirited persons of all classes, for the poorest among us will wear his or her brightest and best clothing in celebration of important occasions shared by a community. Here, the newly consecrated bishop receives her crosier, a bishop's symbol of pastoral authority. She ponders its significance and feels its weight. She accepts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the image of Mariann striding toward and all the way forward and among the people she is fully vested in her ecclesiastical Cope (cape~originally for inclement weather perhaps) and Mitre (tall mitred hat so she can be easily seen, originally also a chef's hat) and carrying her Crosier, the artist's rendering of a shepherd's solid walking stick hooked at the top to get the attention of those without direction ~ all symbols of her role as bishop. When I saw the striking image I thought of the Striding Madonna statue on the lawn of Salisbury Cathedral in England, in which Our Lady is shown in working clothes, striding toward the city to roll up her sleeves and do her job of service to the hungry, the lonely, the homeless, the battered, the disenfranchised among us. Mariann Budde strides toward her obligations of service with similar faith and confidence in the Grace of God to help her fulfill her job.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She comes well-trained for the work ahead, a gifted and competent bilinguist and community activist as well as an effective parish priest, one who has worked among the poor and learned from them, a champion of Native American rights and all Civil Rights during her two decades as a priest in the Diocese of Minnesota, my own canonical diocese. (Since I am not a parish priest but the pastoral deacon and sacramental priest of Wisdom House, a religious center founded and incorporated in the State of Minnesota and now registered in the State of Oregon, it and I remain officially linked there.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paul's<i> </i><i>Letter to the Ephesians</i>, both read in Spanish and English,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Gospel reading was read in English and Igbo, a language</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Diocese of Washington D.C. David Whyte's poem, "Coleman's Bed,"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All discordant elements that seek a home." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As is the custom, our Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was the chief ordaining bishop. She was joined by other bishops in laying their hands on Mariann's head or shoulders in relay, to confer, in addition to her prior ordinations to the Sacred Orders of Deacons and Priests, ordination to the Sacred Order of Bishops upon her in the Apostolic Succession, going back to Christ's touching the Apostle Peter with the commission, "Feed my lambs." Peter was perhaps confused and hesitant, even frightened of the responsibility, but he felt the hand of Rev Yeshua (Jesus the Rabbi ~"Rev Yeshua"~ whom we call the Christ, the anointed one, who more than anyone wanted not to do what he was called to do), and ultimately the Apostle along with the others grew into "the stature of the fullness of Christ" to be able to say, Yes, and get to work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As humankind is a small part of Nature, the sacred houses that lift our spirits to receive</span></span><br />
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moving images of Bishop Mariann Budde on the Internet. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Copyright laws prevent me from pasting many splendid images here. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a</span>re so
many I wanted to show you, but it's better if you explore the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Googl<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e </span></span>Image
Gallery on your own. See if you can find images of the Striding
Madonna at Salisbury Cathedral, as well.You, as I, may never be able
to forget it. I have the advantage of seeing her in person with my
Cathedral Tour companions when we were on our way to Stonehenge on May Day,
1985. We stopped at Salisbury Cathedral for a good long time. I love the
stonework, the history, but the Striding Madonna is my standard bearer
and scout, no longer physically, but in memory she sustains my spirit
so that I can continue to do my job in its current forms. I was walking
outside in the precincts of the Cathedral along the grassway parallel
to her. I stopped, and in my mind and heart, my walk became of one
striding forth cadence with hers. Mary was asked the most frightening
thing of all~ Are you willing to take on the consequences of God's
dream for your life come true? After a brief conversation with the
angel who asked, she consented. May we all find her courage in our own
lives and ministries, lay or ordained. May our lives come trueView moving images of Bishop Mariann Budde on the Internet. There were so many I wanted to show you here, but it's better if you explore the Image Gallery on your own. See if you can find other images of the Striding Madonna at Salisbury Cathedral, as well. You, as I, may never be able to forget it. I have the advantage of seeing her in person when my Cathedral Tour companions were on our way to Stonehenge on May Day, 1985. We stopped at Salisbury Cathedral for a good long time. I love the stonework, the history, but the Striding Madonna is my standard bearer and scout, no longer physically, but she sustains my spirit in memory so that I can continue to do my job in its current forms. I was walking outside in the precincts of the Cathedral along the grassway parallel to her. I stopped, and in my mind and heart, my walk became of one striding forth cadence with hers. Mary was asked the most frightening thing of all~ Are you willing to take on the consequences of God's dream for your life come true? After a brief conversation with the angel who asked, she consented. May we all find her courage in our own lives and ministries, lay or ordained. May our lives come true.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had the prophet Jeremiah in mind when I wrote "Talitha Cumi" while praying for guidance before the Philadelphia Ordinations so long ago now. Jeremiah, like Jonah (and Jesus!), is famous for being frightened by God's call, and hoped to get out of having to do the job by saying, "Don't send me, God. I'm only a kid! I don't know what to say . . ."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Godmothers of a New Creation" was written after some time had passed and we were seeing the high quality and integrity of the first and second generations of women who followed us into the priesthood. I revised the poem in honor of Mariann Budde's Consecration. God Bless you and your family and those whom you serve in your new ministry, Mariann!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>You are being and motion,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>fire in the mountain.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>storm in the sea-deep,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>vermilion sky-gilding sun.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Rise up a New Creation </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<i> and take the name</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I Am. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Am I a devil,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a danger,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a soul-dagger drudge,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a babe, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a hag,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a desert,</span></span></div>
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a plague?</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>You are</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a woman</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a human</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a person</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a prophet</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a sister</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a creature</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>an icon-breaker/remaker</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a judgment</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a vision</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a life.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Rise up a New Creation</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and take the name</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I Am.</i><br />
<i> </i><br />
<i> Alla </i><i><i>Renée Bozarth</i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey</b>, first edition Paulist Press 1978;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">revised edition Luramedia 1988, distributed by Wisdom House,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">43222 SE Tapp Rd, Sandy, OR 97055, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">allabearheart@yahoo.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 503-668-3119 <b><br /></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Godmothers of a New Creation</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through the darkness of history</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we see your eyes glisten in Easter light—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now you<i> </i>are coming, our daughters,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">descendants, sisters in Christ,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you are worthy of the price.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No longer the female patriarchs of our fears or past years</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">{or now in the furnace rooms of our institutions},</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you are women come of age, seekers of life at the edge,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">explorers of inner galaxies, giving hope and acknowledging </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holiness in life, knowing it must include death for resurrection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With recognition in your eyes and hands, you become</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">true channels of the healing power of Mother/Father God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are daughters of Wisdom Women</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Holy Scripture and the Ancestors,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spirit in your veins, Grace flowing like rivers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through your hearing hearts and responsive words,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">prophetic fire still shining in your faces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are old, young, mothers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">daughters, grandmothers, sisters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though wounded, God-blessed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and by your courage and your Yes made whole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You bear the fullness of faith more deeply</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the world, promise of the Easter Christ</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">alive in our midst and throughout </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the radiant body of Cosmos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through harrows into heavens,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we stand grateful and small in the Gate of Mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We receive help from Great Mystery and pass it on to you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">receiving from you as well, passing the Gifts of God to others together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With outstretched hands, the bread of Life, the cup of Healing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">overflowing for all the hungry, broken and poor on the Earth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with our hearts tuned to the pulse of the risen Christ in the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Moment by moment we accept</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">our calling as midwife and friend,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">teacher and mother, healer and healed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sister to sister and sister to brother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so we who came before</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now bless you who have come</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and are coming after.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We bow before you and with you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Godmothers of a New Creation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Originally in </i><b>At the Foot of the Mountain: </b></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nature and the Art of Soul Healing </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> and Stars in Your Bones:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but revised in honor of the Consecration of Mariann Budde<b> </b><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Annunciation</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The artist had broken canon law forbidding</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>anything holy to extend beyond the borders.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the angel’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wing stretched</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">effortlessly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Past the borders</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the picture,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beyond the icon’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frame, into the world</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">freely, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the woman listening</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smiled, she smiled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">openly, shamelessly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fearlessly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And women seeing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her smile</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">smile back</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And suddenly discover</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they are incapable</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of submitting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Any longer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to soul-killing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">control,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And feel something</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">within them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stretching,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wanting to laugh</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out loud</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the dead-still church,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wanting to dance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lift their skirts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and see what</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is being born</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from within them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in that moment,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What holy wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is coming forth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from inside</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their tired old</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">caved-in</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hearts,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then it will be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the second coming</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Creation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And Christ will live again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in every woman’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">resurrection.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Accidental Wisdom</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iUniverse 2003.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Bakerwoman God</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Strong, brown Bakerwoman God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am your rising bread,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">well-kneaded by some divine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and knotty pair of knuckles,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by your warm earth hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am bread well-kneaded.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">put me in your own bright fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am warm, warm as you from fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am white and gold, soft and hard,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brown and round.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am so warm from fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Break me, Bakerwoman God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am broken under your caring Word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Drop me in your special juice in pieces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Drop me in your blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Drunken me in the great red flood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Self-giving chalice swallow me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My skin shines in the divine wine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My face is cup-covered and I drown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I fall up, in a red pool in a gold world</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where your warm sunskin hand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is there to catch </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and hold me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bakerwoman God, remake me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey</b>, Paulist Press 1978,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rev. ed. Luramedia 1988, distributed by Wisdom House;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Gynergy</b>, Wisdom House 1990;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Water Women</b>, audiocassette, Wisdom House 1990;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Moving to the Edge of the World </b>iUniverse 2000;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b>,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iUniverse 2004.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To listen to the musical composition of "Bakerwoman God" by retired Northern Illinois University professor of music, Tim Blickhan, performed by the Augustana
College Jenny Lind Vocal Ensemble, Michael Zemek, director, on All Saints Day 2013, go here:</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3nrh3kt1a03u6q7/2012+Bakerwoman+God.mp3">www.mediafire.com/listen/3nrh3kt1a03u6q7/2012+Bakerwoman+God.mp3</a> </span></span>
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Mary Magdalene, in the Roman Canon called "apostola apostolorum"~<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Solitary Witness— In Memory of Her</b></span></span></div>
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<i> Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, </i></span></span></div>
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<i> what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.</i> Matthew 26:13 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then she met Someone, a rabbi, scholar and carpenter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who had friends in the fishing profession. He recognized </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for wastefulness by other disciples. Jesus said, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Who else among you has shown such courage and love?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">calling her prophet indeed by defending her with the recognition </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she embraced the honor of being chosen the one closest to his heart,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">first among equals, apostle to the apostles, heartbroken and solitary witness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mary Magdalene retired to the home prepared for her by angels,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt and wheat, the taste of honey, the color of gold— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and, in memory of her deliverance to them by storm, they are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Before Jesus</b></span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mary, Protopriest </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the New Covenant</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was his mother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before supper</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the upper room,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the Passover Feast,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a feeding trough.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here, the altar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Earth, fair linens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his cry,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her cry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his sweat</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and tears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his offering,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of bread and death,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the breaking of her</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">body in birth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the offering of her</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before his blood,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And by her body and blood</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and whole human being.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The wise ones knelt</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in wonder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holding up her sacred child,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her spark of God in the form of a babe,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your hearts be healed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and your lives be filled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iUniverse 2004.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As Told by One of the Women Ordained to the Priesthood</span></h3>
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that Day, July 29, 1974,</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">the Feast of Saints Mary and Martha </span></h3>
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The Rev. Alla
Renée Bozarth
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<b>At the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia</b><b> on July 29, 1974, </b></div>
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<b>Feast of Saints Mary and Martha, Eleven Episcopal Women Deacons</b> <b> </b></div>
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<b>Were Ordained the First </b><b>Women in the Episcopal </b><b>Priesthood. </b></div>
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<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, July 30, 1974, reprinted with permission.<br />
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The beautiful and historical Church of the Advocate in Inner City
Philadelphia,<br />
a predominantly black parish, opened its doors to take us
in and shelter
us from<br />
the storm of opposition. <a href="http://www.churchoftheadvocate.org/">www.churchoftheadvocate.org</a><br />
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Full of embracing Grace and the presence and power of the Holy Spirit,
the prayer-infused stones themselves were borne into their present form
by inspired vision and consummate skill. This French Gothic structure on
West Diamond Street is a wondrous blend of a black and white, living
color congregation and history, with the gray of traditional European
Gothic architecture proving to be a stunning backdrop for vibrant,
color-rich contemporary African art.<br />
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The Advocate was a solid edifice and launch pad for us, and the rector
Paul Washington and the people of the congregation were Spirit-filled
hosts. Living up to their name, the clergy and congregation were true to
their more than hundred years of community outreach, social justice and
sensitivity to liturgical and spiritual integrity. Strong advocates of
civil rights and now women's rights, they continue today in a
resurrection spirit of renewal to be Easter People. <br />
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There were bomb threats and later
there were death threats and physical and verbal attacks on us.
Security was heavy. We did not expect the crowd, about a third of it
consisting of national press people. During a part of the service when
we were lined up at the altar rail facing our three courageous
ordaining bishops, there was a loud metallic sound. Martin Luther
King's mother, Alberta King, had been shot to death a month earlier
while sitting at the organ during a church service. Knowing that
sometimes a person can be shot and not feel it, I looked down to see if
there was a red stain on my white alb, then looked right and left (I
am the smallest one in the picture from <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>,
fourth from left). We were all still standing and the only red on our
chests was on the liturgical stoles that were draped across our white
albs. No one breathed for a few seconds, then the service continued.
Afterward, we were told that an NBC television camera had fallen over
onto the stone floor of the transept.<br />
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These pictures were taken by Anne Zeismer, a friend from the Diocese of
Minnesota. In the turmoil of the event she did not notice that her
camera battery was low. The effect here expresses how we felt. The
church was positively charged with the Holy Spirit~ We are entering the
chancel from the side door to the transept, Katrina Swanson leading in
this image, with her priest presenter/husband George Swanson behind her
to her left, and to his right is my priest presenter/husband Phil, and
my lay presenter, his mother Betty Campbell on his right. The Rev.
Phyllis Edwards is in the left foreground. She was a deacon who chose
not to be ordained to the priesthood that day because she knew she would
lose her job in her home diocese and her elderly mother depended on her
as her sole support. In the next picture, Katrina is embracing someone
and on her way to embracing Phyllis, in solidarity, and in recognition
of her sacrifice. [George told me this on May 11, 2012.]<br />
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Jeannette Piccard (center) enters the chancel flanked by her tall son and her priest presenter behind her. <br />
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Jeannette Piccard had wanted to be a priest since she was eleven years
old. At 79, she was the eldest and first to be ordained a priest. I was
the youngest at 27. Jeannette had already made history by being the
first woman to fly a hot air balloon into the stratosphere in 1934.<br />
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In
the historical records as the first woman in space, piloting the
balloon invented and engineered by her husband the Swiss space
scientist Jean Piccard, decades later she was invited to lecture the
new class of astronauts at NASA each year. Of July 29, 1974, Jeannette
said, "That day I flew higher."<br />
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<b>Pilot Jeannette and Inventor Jean Piccard, 1934 </b></div>
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<b>Jeannette Piccard, priest, at Holy Communion, 1974</b></div>
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<b>The Traditional Red Doors of the church in winter~ </b></div>
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<b>Opened wide in high summer . . .</b></div>
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This picture was taken after the service, showing my priest presenter
husband The Rev. Phil Bozarth-Campbell and friends Dorothy Huyck on his
right, top row, and her daughter Heather to my right. Dr. Heather Huyck
later would write her dissertation in American Studies for the
University of Minnesota: <i>To Celebrate a Whole Priesthood: The History of Women's
Ordination in the Episcopal Church. </i>She is currently a professor at The College of William and Mary. <br />
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I
do not know who the woman on my left is, but in the hurry of the
moment, I saw her and pulled her into the image to complete it with her
beautiful countenance and her coordinating colors. We were all swept
forward and away in the white water movement immediately after the
picture was taken. . . .<br />
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Heather later organized a
local group in the Diocese of Minnesota to work toward general
acceptance of women in the priesthood and episcopate, which would begin
to be realized by a resolution of affirmation at General Convention in
1976. For the next 30 years there would continue to be pockets of
opposition in dioceses which refused to ordain women to the priesthood
and episcopate, or to acknowledge and license priests and bishops who
were women to function within their borders.<br />
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In the
mid-70s, a medieval style interdict was placed on me in both the Diocese
of Eau Claire and the Diocese of Milwaukee when I accepted invitations
from Roman Catholic clergy and religious. I'd been asked to preach on
liberation theology to begin an Advent series on that theme at the
Newman Center on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. The
priest officiant graciously indicated that I was to stand beside him
during the liturgy. It was so natural a thing for two Christian priests
to concelebrate the Holy Eucharist that we simply did so spontaneously.
That it would be a scandal for our respective hierarchies was furthest
from our minds.<br />
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During the liturgy, the Episcopal
chaplain of the campus Canterbury Club sat in the front pew with members
of his congregation, who all received communion from me at the Roman
Catholic Newman Center service because the Episcopal bishop had
forbidden them to allow me to speak, celebrate or physically "set
foot on church property."<br />
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We were unaware of the fact
that a <i>National Catholic Reporter </i>photographer was present and taking
pictures of the event. Four large photographs of the Roman Catholic
priest side by side with the Episcopal priest holding up or blessing the consecrated
bread and wine together at the altar appeared on the front page of the
newspaper. This is one of them:<br />
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A
few days later my bishop, Philip McNairy, called me in and asked me to
tell him the name of the Roman Catholic archbishop in whose jurisdiction
the service had taken place so he could write him a letter of apology. I
told him the man's name was Cletus O'Donnell. Apparently having
forgotten this, Bishop McNairy wrote and sent the apology to Bill
Cousins, the archbishop of Milwaukee.<br />
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It worked out
fine because two weeks later I spoke in Milwaukee at the Archdiocesan
Sisters' Council Open Forum, and I felt covered since my bishop had
apologized for me to their bishop in advance. This did not protect me,
however, from a John Birch Society plant who stood up in the back of the
room after my presentation. She stared at me as if laying a curse while
paraphrasing John Milton, saying, "The devil uses clever words and we
have heard the devil here tonight." I whispered to the Sister on my
right that it probably was time to leave. I may have used somewhat more
colorful language. . . .<br />
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The discomfort came out in other unexpected and odd ways. A
couple had come to ask me to provide the usual series of weekly
pre-marital counseling sessions for a month and then officiate privately
at their wedding. They invited me and my husband to join them at a
family celebration at a restaurant that evening after the ceremony. When
the bride's parents arrived, she introduced me to them by name and then introduced Phil and rather quietly added, perhaps embarrassed that I might hear, "He officiated at our
wedding." Such a lie was the more ludicrous given the fact that Phil was
not even present. Doubtless she was placating the prejudice of one or
both of her parents . . . at the expense of integrity, the truth and the
officiant. <br />
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Such experiences were not uncommon over the next ten
years and more. Perhaps more typical was the experience of being
graciously invited somewhere for an event and then having the invitation
succinctly withdrawn once local authorities had become aware of the
plans in time to kill them. Occasionally that was so close to the
scheduled event that I would arrive only to find someone standing in
front of a closed door and with great embarrassment proceed to tell me
what had happened. I never took these things personally since those
involved had never met me, after all. I simply rolled with the punches as the saying goes. Still, it was hard on the nerves.<br />
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Harder
still was the barrage of pointed disapproval and rejection from people
who did know me, some of them relatives, some of them once close
friends. My beloved aunt, who in retrospect deeply regrets having done
this (though I'm certain it was an unconscious reflex), made it a point
after my ordination to the diaconate, not even
waiting for the controversial event, to introduce Phil (who was
not yet ordained) and me to her friends as The Rev. Phil and Mrs.
Bozarth-Campbell. That is the ultimate negation of a married
professional woman~ not only denying her the name she was given at birth and the
professional title she had earned, but transferring the latter to her
non-professional husband. It was comparable to introducing a physician
and her medical student husband as Dr. Tom and Mrs. Jones.<br />
<br />
Though I loved the television series<i> The West Wing</i>,
I cringed every time the character of the president's wife, a medical
doctor, was referred to as "Mrs. Bartlett." She was a practicing
physician and yet, though her husband had his own doctor of philosophy
degree and thus was her academic equal, her professional life was
negated to make the president seem above her. After the series ended the
actor playing her part expressed her regret, too, that she had allowed
it. After all, they were otherwise shown as progressive democrats!<br />
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To
people sensitive to the importance of language, such blatant
language tampering is a significant betrayal. This sort of thing
demonstrates how language both expresses and reinforces sexist
stereotypes. By extreme extension, it would imply that if a man were in a
room with a queen, the queen should be called by her first name and the
man, no matter his profession, should be bowed to and called King. If
the male ego were really so flimsy, it would have no help at all in
growing stronger by this behavior. Yet, some women of previous
generations were apparently so in the habit of manipulating men with
obeisance and flattery that they became fearful of behavior that
deviated from the practice.<br />
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In another instance, a
family member had actually determined not to speak to me for three
years. I found this out later, when she was speaking to me again after
General Convention recognized our priestly ordinations. The impact of
the snub was wasted on me since I had been so busy in those years that I
hadn't noticed her silence.<br />
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Others were more blatant
in their expressions of indignation. Mentally unstable strangers wrote
anonymous hate mail and made anonymous hate calls, some obscene, some
with death threats. Had I realized before the Philadelphia Ordinations
what our lives would be like from then on, that we would not only be
priests as we knew ourselves called to be, but change agents with
responsibilities to history, I might not have found the necessary
courage. The Holy Spirit and the not-knowing what was ahead gave me the
courage, the joy and enthusiasm to say Yes, and to go on saying Yes
every day of my life since then. These things weren't easy to take, but
they did not keep us from our responsibilities as priests.<br />
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Jeannette and Alla after a first anniversary celebration </div>
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<br />New Canon Law on Holy Orders, 1977:<div><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Canon III, Title 9, Section 1</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">The provisions of these canons for the admission of Candidates, </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">and for the Ordination </span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">to the three Orders: Bishops, Priests and Deacons </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">shall be equally applicable to men and women.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div>
After
General Convention's affirmation of women in the priesthood in the
summer of 1976, the Philadelphia Eleven and Washington Four, we of the <i>fait accompli</i>
that prompted the affirmation, were individually affirmed as priests in
their dioceses. Bishop McNairy concelebrated the Holy Eucharist with
Jeannette and me on January 7, 1977 in the Cathedral Church of St.Mark
in Minneapolis.<br />
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For some reason he also decided that we
should sign the Oath of Conformity, a document ordinands sign before
they are ordained, which states that they will conform to the doctrine,
discipline and worship of the Episcopal Church.<br />
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We had
already signed it twice, of course, for our ordinations to the diaconate
and priesthood. When I pointed out to Bishop McNairy that only bishops
sign it for the third time, he handed me the pen. I signed with my left
hand fingers crossed behind my back, thinking it improper to be taking a redundant oath not at all appropriate for the occasion.<br />
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So many of our supporters had
worked long and hard and with such dedication for the moment of
recognition. It went far beyond two individuals and had the impact of
being a recognition of the full participation in church and society of
women bringing their gifts, their skills and their passionate devotion
to the work which God calls each of us to do. Gifted, Spirit-filled
women were in the congregation, and we in turn, were privileged not only
to thank but also to celebrate them.<br />
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Twenty-five years later we Philadelphia Eleven (except for Jeannette Piccard who<br />
had died in 1981 and Betty Bone Schiess, our eldest now, who wisely left to avoid<br />
the intense heat of a July day in Philadelphia ) and several of the Washington Four,<br />
who had undertaken a second wave of priestly ordinations<b> </b>in 1975, celebrated our<br />
25th anniversary, again at the Church of the Advocate. <br />
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<i><span style="font-family: georgia;">July 29, 1999, nine of the Philadelphia Eleven at the 25th
anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations. From Left: Lee McGee of the
Washington Four, Sue Hiatt, Katrina Welles Swanson, Marie Moorefield
Fleischer, Merrill Bittner, Carter Heyward, Alison Cheek, Nancy Hatch
Wittig, Emily Hewitt and</span> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alla Renée Bozarth </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Bozarth-Campbell).</span> </i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="color: #222222;">Next to me there is an empty chair honoring Jeannette Piccard, both of us from the Diocese of Minnesota. Only Washington Four Diane Tickell from Alaska was further west of us. On the chair, Jeannette's signature red stole with </i><i style="color: #222222;">appliquéd </i><i style="color: #222222;">brightly colored hot air balloons was draped, letting us feel her presence in </i><i style="color: #222222;">the Great Communion</i><i style="color: #222222;"> in all its vividness. </i><i style="color: #222222;">Betty Powell </i><i style="color: #222222;">(formerly Rosenberg)</i><i style="color: #222222;"> of the Washington Four was present in the congregation and the rest of us felt her beside us. Eldest of us at the time, Betty Schiess had come, but felt the hot air of Philadelphia and wisely turned around to go back home to upstate New York. I do not think that Washington Four Alison Palmer was present, but I know that she is among those interviewed and written about by Darlene O'Dell in</i><i style="color: #222222;"> </i><i style="color: #222222;"><b>The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven</b>, released in 2014 for the 40th anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations.</i><i style="color: #222222;"> Alison was a diplomat with the State Department for many years. In </i><i style="color: #222222;">2013, Ms. O'Dell spent time in person or by telephone interviewing members of the Philadelphia Eleven and the Washington Four then still living. Her account, based on an extraordinarily sensitive and respectful hearing of our stories, is an heirloom treasure for us to hold in our hands and in perspective as a source of meaning and strength for the rest of our lives. She helps us to remember who we were and who we still are. </i></span></div><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Still living in spacetime as of September 1, 2022 are Betty Powell and Alison Palmer of the Washington Four, and Marie Moorefield Fleischer, Nancy Wittig, Emily Hewitt, Merrill Bittner, Carter Heyward and </span><span>Alla Renée Bozarth of the Philadelphia Eleven. </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, eldest among us and first ordained a priest at the age of 79 after feeling called since she was eleven, died in 1981 at the age of 86. Suzanne Radley Hiatt and Diane Tickell of the Washington Four died in 2002, Katrina Welles Swanson died in 2005, Alison Cheek died in 2017, Betty Bone Schiess died in 2019 and Lee McGee Street died in 2022. Eight of the 15 of us are still alive as of September 2022~ six of the Philadelphia Eleven and two of the Washington Four. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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On the day of our ordinations the bright red felt cloth that had covered the front of the altar spelled out in rainbow color block letters one of the best passages of St. Paul from his <i>Epistle to the Galatians </i>(3:28): <b>There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.</b> We did not process down the center aisle to our places in the choir for security reasons, and because there was no clear passage through the crowd. The Senior Warden (chief lay person) of the parish, <b>Barbara Harris</b>, had flown back from a business trip to California so that she could carry the cross at the head of the procession from the north transept entrance up front.<br />
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When her plane had stopped in Minneapolis, it picked up my husband Phil. Barbara had stepped off the plane to make a call to Paul Washington, rector of the Church of the Advocate, to make sure that the service was still going to take place the next day. The bomb threats had caused hesitation about carrying out the plans in the vulnerable venue of the church, but Paul said, "Yes, the service will take place tomorrow." Security guards and the Philadelphia police would be on hand from early morning onward. They found a stink bomb in the back of the church and removed it, but no other bomb was found.<br />
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By the time Barbara got back on the plane, Phil had boarded and was sitting in an aisle seat wearing his clerical collar. Always interested in people with that wonderful gregarious extrovert trait of most parish clergy, he smiled broadly and warmly when Barbara saw him and smiled. An intelligent looking man with an open face and a warm smile and wearing a clerical collar made Barbara think that he was on his way to the same place and for the same reason as she. She paused before continuing on to her seat and asked him where he was going. He said, "I'm going to Philadelphia to help my wife be ordained one of the first women priests in the Episcopal Church." Barbara said, "That's where and why I'm going, too! See you tomorrow!" And right there, the first in-person bond was made between those two flying pilgrims going onward to the Church of the Advocate with a common purpose.<br />
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I didn't know this wonderful story until last summer when I called Barbara to ask her permission to include her 25th anniversary sermon on my website. We had a lovely long visit on the telephone and among other stories, she told me about that airplane meeting with my Beloved Phil. We ordinands had to arrive a few days before the ordinations, for there was much preparation, both in prayer together and in struggling through some of the key issues involved, included the trepidation among us about repercussions. We had no idea that what we were about to do by responding to God's call to the priesthood would be much more, for without most or all of us fully realizing it or understanding what it would mean for the rest of our lives, we were also being called to become change agents. Over the next ten, twenty, thirty, now nearly forty years, we would discover the degree of opposition, misogyny and sometimes violence that would be expressed by others, leading to verbal abuse, rejection, and in at least one instance, physical assault. During the years ahead of us, a male priest, after receiving Holy Communion from Carter Heyward, would dig his nails into her hand so deeply that she required stitches. Had we known that such violence and ugliness lay ahead of us, we couldn't have borne it. Without doubting the sustaining Presence of God, I, at least, couldn't feel in myself the sheer physical stamina and emotional grit that our lives and our priestly ministries would require.<br />
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Betty Campbell, Phil's mom and my mother-in-love, had made the car trip with me from Minneapolis to Philadelphia. Betty thanked me for giving her the opportunity to grow up into the fullness of her womanhood. She said it was the first time that she had ever done anything controversial, something which might arouse disapproval, and she knew she would have to stand up for her decision. She was ready and proud to do so, and felt strong in her stand. Indeed, over the years she defended me like a mother lion, always with dignity, clarity and firmness. We met Phil (and it it turns out, Barbara, too, had we but known it!) at the airport at 1am. That afternoon, Barbara Harris led the way for us, carrying the cross high and making a passage for us, like Miriam moving with her brother Moses across the Red Sea safely on solid ground, leading the People of God into greater freedom and greater responsibility, too.<br />
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Fifteen years after the Philadelphia Ordinations, Barbara Harris,
articulate and relentless spokeswoman for the liberation of all people,
had been ordained a deacon and priest, and followed us all the way up
to the front of history when she became the first female bishop in an
apostolic tradition in modern times. <br />
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On February 11, 1989, Barbara Clementine Harris, brilliant activist and scholarly writer of the column, "A Luta Continua" (<i>The Struggle Continues</i>) for <i>The Witness Magazine</i>,
followed us into history by becoming the first female bishop in the
Episcopal Church. We were in that liturgical procession also, and as
principal, she followed us as we had once followed her. We were
overwhelmed with thanksgiving as we witnessed her Consecration and
Ordination as the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts.<br />
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The congregation joined Barbara in singing <i>That Great Getting Up Morning</i>,<br />
one of the spirituals which had strengthened her beloved great-grandmother<br />
in the years of her childhood in slavery.<br />
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I could not stop weeping tears of joy from start to end of the service.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkh0ihzUpquqqhI1EcmStadQayIjVYj69dQcjDf_A70O15IMmhGzzq9tup0GZkD5FURNDd9LgWZQVi7wjIk-Oq_Bl7pnB1MYutaTcxu8r8Z4VYuhkRAEQZFf2GKpImzyNoyRNXJzLVXPDezjd3tXeH1GyzK1CWGniPG_6JmmJZ9bgCHYGFxfDdyRc/s237/Bishop%20Barbara%20Harris%20in%20cope%20and%20mitre.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="175" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkh0ihzUpquqqhI1EcmStadQayIjVYj69dQcjDf_A70O15IMmhGzzq9tup0GZkD5FURNDd9LgWZQVi7wjIk-Oq_Bl7pnB1MYutaTcxu8r8Z4VYuhkRAEQZFf2GKpImzyNoyRNXJzLVXPDezjd3tXeH1GyzK1CWGniPG_6JmmJZ9bgCHYGFxfDdyRc/s1600/Bishop%20Barbara%20Harris%20in%20cope%20and%20mitre.jpg" width="175" /></a></div><br /><div><br />
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<b>The Rev. Li Tim-Oi </b>was also present. Two women, Joyce Bennett and Jane Hwang, were ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao in 1971, but the truly first female priest in [Anglo-]Catholic tradition in modern times was the Rev. Li Tim-Oi, who was a deacon in China in 1944, when the Japanese invasion of China made it impossible for the Anglican priests to get to their people to serve them because they were prohibited border crossings between Hong Kong and Macau, where Chinese refugees were pouring. She and her bishop had long been discussing her deep call to the priesthood. Her bishop ordained her a priest so that the Chinese Anglicans would not be denied the sacraments. She was the only priest not blocked by border crossfire for the duration of the war. Indeed, she rode her bicycle right on through it. In the war zones, she organized clinics and schools and provided pastoral care and the sacraments. She was much loved for her kindness, strength, courage and generosity of spirit. Here she is on the day of her ordination to the diaconate by Chinese Bishop Mok in 1941. Bishop Ronald Hall ordained her to the priesthood on January 25, 1944. The portrait of Li Tim-Oi and her picture with Bishop Hall below were taken many years later.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUf215WdvdY7E4qVFQKgBdpFI-5buEWTjqFKVX8rqXIJ2xe0RSig4F4XvHncGs_ARyvIe7_b2dqNszFydg7s5KzCfuJREbRKCPHeX11L8c3l6cKnjv7YvngJT7NjMb7VZ68CSyraYRpC4ZDy1oGZe299HPfYVora6EbBwo2Z-6kZ2p9ZPIQIZ6O1T7/s640/Li%20Tim-Oi%20ordained%20a%20deacon%20in%201941%20by%20Bishop%20Mok.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="518" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUf215WdvdY7E4qVFQKgBdpFI-5buEWTjqFKVX8rqXIJ2xe0RSig4F4XvHncGs_ARyvIe7_b2dqNszFydg7s5KzCfuJREbRKCPHeX11L8c3l6cKnjv7YvngJT7NjMb7VZ68CSyraYRpC4ZDy1oGZe299HPfYVora6EbBwo2Z-6kZ2p9ZPIQIZ6O1T7/s320/Li%20Tim-Oi%20ordained%20a%20deacon%20in%201941%20by%20Bishop%20Mok.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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After the war, her priestly ordination became known to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other bishops. Her priesthood was denounced and her beloved bishop, the Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall, was censured and vilified, but he held fast until his death that he had ordained her a priest under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and that her vocation to the priesthood was deep and true. </div>
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Oppressed people of wisdom understand that they must help one another to overcome oppression, at all times. Out of compassion for the terrible abuse inflicted on her bishop and friend, to make it stop, she rescinded her license to officiate as a priest, though, with pain in her heart at being unable to celebrate the Eucharist, she continued to love and serve her people as a deacon, until the Cultural Revolution imprisoned her and all but buried her alive in degradation. In her concentration camp experience she stayed sane and alive by going to a secret mountain within her where God whispered to her, “Are you not a wise woman? You are a priest! You will survive this and serve those whom I love.” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>
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At the age of 76 she was granted a visa to visit her sister in Canada. Persuaded to stay, the Anglican Church of Canada reinstated her full powers to function as a priest in 1984 on the 40th anniversary of her priestly ordination. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">The Roman Catholic movement for women's ordination honors Li Tim-Oi and tells her story here.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="http://womensordinationcampaign.org/blog-working-for-womens-equality-and-ordination-in-the-catholic-church/2020/1/25/rev-florence-li-tim-oi-first-woman-ordained-in-anglican-communion" style="color: #320099; text-decoration-line: none;">http://womensordinationcampaign.org/blog-working-for-womens-equality-and-ordination-in-the-catholic-church/2020/1/25/rev-florence-li-tim-oi-first-woman-ordained-in-anglican-communion</a><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">A sermon in the form of a letter written to her after her death in 1992 at the age of 84, by the son of Bishop Ronald Hall who ordained Li Tim-Oi to the priesthood. This was on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of her priestly ordination and the dedication of an icon of Li Tim-Oi for the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="https://womenandthechurch.org/resources/a-letter-to-florence-li-tim-oi/" style="color: #320099; text-decoration-line: none;">https://womenandthechurch.org/resources/a-letter-to-florence-li-tim-oi/</a><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In 1989 she traveled from Toronto to Boston to join the joyous throng of thousands at Bishop Harris's consecration.<br />
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<b>The Rev. Li Tim-Oi at the Consecration of Bishop Barbara Harris</b>
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The new bishop wore elegant silk vestments made by women of Ghana. A
black Gospel choir sang the spirituals that had sustained her
great-grandmother through her life as a slave in Maryland. A Chinese
choir sang lullaby hymns in Chinese to honor Li Tim-Oi. I stood on a
chair so I could see her, the first female priest, a
once persecuted Chinese woman, and Barbara Harris, the first female
bishop, an African-American woman and descendent of slaves, as they
embraced one another in Christ at the liturgical Peace. There was an
opening then in the dimensions between Heaven and Earth, and in that
moment of sweet redemption, tongues of fire on their heads, they showed
the world how God, with human and other mortal help, can make the
impossible possible for the greater good, and how injustice can dissolve
into justice and personal suffering, even intense and long, can be
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That moment had the Spirit-charge of Pentecost~ the two women embracing to wish each other the Peace of Christ: the African-American descendant of slaves and the former Chinese concentration camp prisoner. Not only because of making history by bringing more freedom into the Church and thereby encouraging all women and oppressed people everywhere to devote themselves to peace with justice for all, but because of who they were as human beings and the particular histories which they represented, for me that day was more glorious than our own ordination day, its true fulfillment in full open light and with thousands present, people of many faiths praying together at the Great Thanksgiving liturgy of Holy Communion among these few people who had directly or indirectly endured a history of oppression and survived to lift up their voices as one with unmitigated joy. </div>
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During her years in Boston as Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, Barbara Harris along with Bishop Robert DeWitt, who had resigned from his position as Diocesan Bishop of Pennsylvania in order to organize and participate in the Philadelphia Ordination, Bishop Edward Welles, Katrina Swanson's father and ordaining bishop and the retired Bishop of West Missouri, and Bishop Dan Corrigan, retired Bishop of Colorado and lifelong human rights activist, and the Philadelphia Eleven ourselves remained spiritually bonded and rooted in our shared day, July 29th 1974 at the the Church of the Advocate.<br />
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The church itself is a beautiful French Gothic gray stone structure with the usual bright red painted wood door, completed in 1897, the year my paternal grandmother, my personal childhood hero, was born in Henry, Illinois. From the beginning, the church had been integrated and always made a stand for Civil Rights and all matters of liberty and justice. It was anchored in the heart of the poorest section of African American inner city Philadelphia in 1974, and its priest, Paul Washington, and congregants opened its doors to us white women when no one else would.Our gratitude is boundless to the gracious and welcoming congregation of the Church of the Advocate and their rector at the time, Paul Washington. Their hospitality would continue over decades as we returned to celebrate our tenth, fifteenth and twenty-fifth anniversaries. The twentieth celebration took place at the Philadelphia Cathedral of the Savior while the Church of the Advocate was closed down for repairs. In a real sense the Church of the Advocate is our own shelter and home, and we can never thank it, meaning its people, enough.</div>
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Before the service began we were organizing ourselves for the procession in the vesting area. We had expected the congregation to be small because until two weeks before the service it had been kept in strict secrecy. The news, however, had been leaked to the press. We couldn't see but we could hear what happened next in the church proper. We heard a roaring noise but did not know what it was. Paul Washington had gone out to greet those present and when he came back to cue us with a huge grin on his face and and we all looked puzzled and concerned, he said that he had told the congregation (including dissenters who would speak for 15 minutes in a place kept for them in the service) that if a doctor tells a woman she is going to have a baby in October and the baby is ready to be born and its mother is having contractions in July, it is the baby and the mother who are right and not the doctor. Then he announced the opening hymn: "Please join me in singing the hymn, <i>Come Labor On</i>." He said, "What you heard was the sound of 2,000 people laughing!"</div>
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The preceding account is from a 2006 interview, "A Conversation with Alla," </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The painting by Anne Shams below</span>, <b>Paradise Lies at the Feet of the Mothers,</b><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> provided the title of the poem that follows. See "Jerusalem a Quarter Century Ago:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Celebration of Diversity" from the archives for more of Anne's art and philosophy.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and consecration to the episcopate, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">February 11, 1989</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i></div>
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Today, let us say, in Boston, Heaven and Earth were joined.</div>
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to gather the suffering-through-which-it-was-made into its healing arms.</div>
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The first Anglican woman priest in modern times, ordained</div>
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when no man could get through the crossfire</div>
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between her Chinese people and invading Japanese soldiers,</div>
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fast between bullets, served the people, then in compassionate sacrifice</div>
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Years later she would be a tortured prisoner of the Cultural Revolution.</div>
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Restored to oneness between being and doing, </div>
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And during the liturgical Peace for all to share, the women embrace.</div>
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On the silver anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations, the Right Reverend Barbara Harris stepped up into the pulpit of the Church of the Advocate, removed her dignified red and gold mitred bishop's hat and began to preach. She preached with the passion and integrity of prophets of old. Rather than wait to tell you these things on another anniversary next summer, I have waited too long already ~ thwarted by technical and financial difficulties ~ but finally found a way around the obstacles to give the world the words of Bishop Harris that re-charging day a quarter century after we eleven new priests and our three ordaining bishops made a healthy crack in the stained glass ceiling.<br />
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In these pictures below you will see stirrings and bustlings before the liturgy begins, me standing in the doorway of the narthex enjoying all the people milling about and settling in, with Katrina Swanson's hand and vestment visible on my left, and in the last picture, my dear sister-priest the Rev. LouAnn Pickering, rector of St. Gabriel's Parish in Portland, crossing the threshold with me into the main part of the church during the opening hymn. <br />
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Here, on the verge of our national Thanksgiving holiday followed by<br />
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Let there be peace among us</div>
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In the name of God, Creator, Liberator and Sustainer.</div>
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We gather this evening to mark a significant milestone in the life of the church. A quarter of a century is an important turning point for nearly any development and the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church is of no small consequence.</div>
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For some it is a time of joy and celebration. For others it calls up words from our closing hymn—“God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way . . .” For still others there are lingering doubts that celebration is appropriate, given the climate we are experiencing in the church today. Whatever draws us to this place tonight, whatever it is we are feeling individually, it is well that we corporately mark that historic sweltering hot Monday morning 25 years ago on this date and that we mark it with dignity and solemnity.</div>
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For those of you who were not around 25 years ago and for those who may have forgotten, July 29, 1974, was a momentous day. It not only spawned a new era, it revealed something profound concerning the nature of those in the church for whom an unchanged tradition— or selected portions thereof— is paramount. And that particular phenomenon continues to unfold in ever more definitive form.</div>
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Last month, the Bishop of Maine, Chilton Knudsen and I had the opportunity to participate in a class at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge jointly conducted by Carter Heyward and Sue Hiatt. The title of their course was ‘Philadelphia 25 years later—Was it worth it?” Most would see that, despite some of what we have endured and experienced, indeed it has been worth it. But twenty-five years later and some 3,000 ordained women in the U.S. alone and approximately 6,300 total in nearly 26 provinces of the Anglican Communion, I believe there are some additional questions that need to be raised.</div>
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Two such questions are WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? and WHY DOES OPPOSITION CONTINUE?</div>
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Now I want to try to speak a little truth here tonight. And I am going to be brief and, as often accused, I am going to be blunt. I do, however, have to choose my words very carefully in that I not only tend to be quoted, I frequently tend to get misquoted. I don’t mind the former, in context— it’s the latter that ticks me off.</div>
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To begin with, last year’s decennial gathering of apostolic eagles— which included its share of turkeys— the Lambeth Conference, brought a defining melding of these two questions.</div>
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Despite the development of a critical mass of ordained women, including eleven bishops, at Lambeth we were left wondering what had happened to the dream of a kinder, gentler church. The conference resolution concerning ordination of women and its odious amendment— authored by two women bishops in concert with some conservative male bishops— totally ignored any positive impact the church has experienced through ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate over the past 25 years. It was a stunning denigration of the more than 6000 women in Orders from Utah to Uganda, to say nothing of those who have yet to respond to God’s call. Rather, having tasted blood with the much amended resolution on human sexuality, the princes of the church moved in for the kill on the people they really hold in low esteem— WOMEN.</div>
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Given the fact that the church has had gay priests and bishops since at least the 13th century, it is disingenuous, at best, and downright dishonest at the worst, to pretend that we are faced with some new phenomenon of homosexual clergy. When church policy seemed to be “don’t ask, don’t tell” it was kind of okay, but almost any single male clergy were often suspected of being gay. Even with the advent of openly gay clergy, there has been no call to suspend male ordinations generally. While I do not, by any means, minimize the rampant hostility toward our gay brothers, I strongly suspect that the advent of open lesbians into the ranks of the ordained has triggered renewed and redoubled efforts to turn back the clock on women’s ordination. As in other male dominated fields, from law enforcement to medicine, almost any unmarried woman is regarded as a lesbian— or else promiscuous. That is an important part of what we have learned.</div>
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Meanwhile, the few U.S. bishops who openly oppose women’s ordination, and their sycophants, now claim vindication, proclaiming themselves to be “in the mainstream of Anglicanism.” And make no mistake, they will try to use Lambeth’s non-binding action as a club against us at next year’s General Convention of the church, as some already are doing when they talk about “defiance” and “rejection” of Lambeth’s resolutions. In reality they are swimming against the gospel tide of inclusivity, headed for the backwater eddies of patriarchal delusion. And that, too, is a part of what we have learned.</div>
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But a nagging question remains that points us to some of why opposition continues. Where are the real men— not the ones who don’t eat quiche— the men straight and gay who claim to support us; the men who purport to embrace the concept that in Christ “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female?”</div>
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Well, let us recount what has happened, for the lessons are long, hard and bitter. But our sister Maya Angelou reminds us that “history with all of its unending pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”</div>
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Early on, at Port St. Lucy, we got the “conscience clause” that said bishops who did not in conscience believe in ordination of women were not bound to ordain them. Then in 1988 we got an “episcopal visitor” resolution - that, incidentally quietly expired in 1994. That same year, however, we got silence at the Indianapolis General Convention. In 1997, after 23 long years, the ordination canons become mandatory. This was followed one year later by the deafening silence of OUR male bishops at Lambeth. And so, while women, in numbers, still predominate the church and virtually remain its most potent human resource, men still outvote us, whether they are vocal or silent. And that, too, is a part of what we have learned.</div>
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Fifteen years ago, as we marked the 10th anniversary of the Philadelphia and Washington ordinations, Bishop Tony Ramos, the preacher that day, reminded us: “...wholeness is far from our reach. The journey goes on, the struggle continues and we need to remain faithful to our call. . . .” His words continue to ring true today.</div>
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Yes, Sue and Carter, it has been worth the effort, it has been worth the pain, it has been worth the joy and worth the halting steps forward toward wholeness and healing. And yes we have learned a lot. But, indeed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A luta continua</i> - the struggle continues. That too, is what we have learned.</div>
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So where does all this leave us on this 25th anniversary?</div>
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It should leave us mindful of the words of the apostle Paul to the young church at Rome, heard in our second scripture reading: “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. . . . If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’ If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.’ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”</div>
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It should also leave us committed to press forward with a renewed determination to work toward eradicating the sexism, racism and homophobia which continue to permeate and pervade the church and in turn spawn some of the hate crimes we witness. And that includes demanding more in the way of concrete action on the part of the men who say they support us.</div>
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The strategy of the other side is unfolding with a clarity and a relentless kind of fury. Their march is on with priests being transferred to dioceses abroad, placing them under the oversight of bishops in Africa and Asia, then having them return to plant new churches not in communion with their dioceses and providing an opening for overseas bishops to come, uninvited, to this country and to invade the jurisdictions of bishops here. May I also note, parenthetically, that the unrelenting requests for financial assistance continue to pour in from some of the same diocesan bishops abroad who condemn us. The march is on, disseminating mis-information and, in some instances, outright lies; soliciting ecclesiastic admonitions to the US church from other primates of other provinces; targeting so-called “revisionist bishops” and liberal dioceses, witch-hunting gay and lesbian clergy and seeking to discredit those who dare to fight for an inclusive church.</div>
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Thanks be to God for our pioneer women, for the bishops who ordained and supported them, for this parish which welcomed them and the church gathered that 1974 day, for the clergy and laity who embraced their priesthood and subsequently paid the price and for all who have followed in their courageous footsteps.</div>
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And so my sisters and brothers tonight Passover is remembered. But so also is Paschaltide. For we are an Easter people in a Good Friday world. So also is the truth expressed in that great South African hymn, “Siyahamba,” translated— We are marching in the light of God. Remember also the fact that “we’ve come this far by faith” and we trust our God for the next steps of the journey.</div>
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When we close our worship this night, we can sing with new appreciation, new understanding and new fervor, the words of James Weldon Johnson’s powerful poetic prayer:</div>
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“Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our parents sighed?</div>
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“We have come over a way that with tears has been watered; We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last, Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.”</div>
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Let there be peace among us and let us not be instruments of our own oppression.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Alla's Middle of the Night Note to a Friend about Misogyny</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Response to a letter from poet and teacher, Pesha Gertler</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">It's going to take a long, long time for misogyny to get out of people's brains. It's the most toxic global evil there is. It expresses fear and hatred of Life, Nature, the Body, the Mother, the Soul. Variously, women have internalized the poison you speak of and hate themselves. Variously, men continue to confirm their hate through patronizing hypocrisy, disrespect or overt abuse. The evil varies by culture, experience and individual degrees, but it’s endemic to our species. Egg envy manifests as death-dealing in all its forms, especially psychic, but it’s brutally physical as well. It’s the reactive psychological inversion expressed in war, rape, selfish domination (rising from reactive male self-hatred), controlling cruelty (rising from unconscious mimicry, fear of powerlessness, and narcissistic rage against maternal authority), slavery and torture. It’s global, and we Westerners in our middle class glass houses are not immune from it. To cure it, one by one we need to commit ourselves to the process, out of love for self and one another as worthy beings, by virtue of our existence alone— the universe and the Creator invited everyone who’s here to be here. We can learn and practice, generation by generation, until we’ve rewired our gray and white matter to integrate a new core attitude of self-awareness and mutual respect. We can't be the whole solution, but we can be part of it. That's what's asked of us by our foremothers, sisters and daughters, and by Great Mother God. . . . </span></div>
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We follow the Future into a World of Hope for Harmony</div>
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At the beginning of the service, these beautiful children danced down the aisle following the drummer and other musicians. They are the most beautiful and meaningful part of the liturgy. In the color picture above near the beginning, in which you see nine of the Philadelphia Eleven and Lee McGee of the Washington Four with her guide dog on the far left, we are one by one reading the stanzas of the poem, "Passover Remembered," which <i>The Witness Magazine</i> had commissioned me to write for the tenth ordinations' anniversary issue of the publication. <br />
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Tenth Anniversary of the Ordinations. </div>
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Following Communion, Prayers with Laying-on-of-hands<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do not hesitate to leave</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do not take time</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tell only a few trusted</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then begin quickly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Set out in the dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will send fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to warm and encourage you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will be with you in the fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I will be with you in the cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will learn to eat new food</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and find refuge in new places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will give you dreams in the desert</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to guide you safely home to that place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you have not yet seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stories you tell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the dark will make you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Outsiders will attack you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and some who follow you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and at times you will weary</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and turn on each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from fear and fatigue and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have been preparing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am sending you into the wilderness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to make a way and to learn my ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">more deeply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who fight you will teach you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who fear you will strengthen you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This alone matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you will die in the desert,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you will give birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some will join other tribes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you will be so changed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that even your closest friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as though for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you will not change at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some will be abandoned</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by your dearest loves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and misunderstood by those</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and feel abandoned by you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some will find new friendship</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in unlikely faces, and old friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as the pillar of God’s flame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wear protection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your flesh will be torn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as you make a path</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with your bodies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through sharp tangles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wear protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Others who follow may deride</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or forget the fools who first bled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">where thorns once were, carrying them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">away in their own flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such urgency as you now bear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">may embarrass your children</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who will know little of these times.</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sing songs as you go,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and hold close together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may at times grow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">confused and lose your way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continue to call each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by the names I’ve given you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to help remember who you are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will get where you are going</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by remembering who you are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Touch each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and keep telling the stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of old bondage and of how</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I delivered you.</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tell you children lest they forget</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and fall into danger—remind them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">even they were not born in freedom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but under a bondage they no longer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">remember, which is still with them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if unseen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or they were born</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in the open desert</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">where no signposts are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Make maps as you go,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">remembering the way back</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from before you were born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So long ago you fell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">into slavery, slipped</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">into it unawares, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">out of hunger and need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You left your famished country</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for freedom and food in a new land,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but you fell unconscious and passive,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and slavery overtook you as you fell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">asleep in the ease of your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You no longer told stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of home to remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">who you were.</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do not let your children sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through the journey’s hardship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep them awake and walking</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">on their own feet so that you both</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">remain strong and on course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So you will be only</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the first of many waves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of deliverance on these</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">desert seas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the first of many</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">beginnings—your Paschaltide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remain true to this mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pass on the whole story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I spared you all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by calling you forth </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from your chains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do not go back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am with you now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I am waiting for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey</b>, revised edition 1988; <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Water Women</b> (audiotape) Wisdom House 1990;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Stars in Your Bones: Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Bozarth, Barkley and Hawthorne); <b>Accidental Wisdom</b> and <b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This is My Body ~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Bakerwoman God</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Strong, brown Bakerwoman God,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am your low, soft and being-shaped loaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am your rising bread,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">well-kneaded by some divine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and knotty pair of knuckles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by your warm earth hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am bread well-kneaded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">put me in your own bright fire.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I am white and gold, soft and hard,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">brown and round.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I am so warm from fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Break me, Bakerwoman God.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I am broken under your caring Word.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Drop me in your special juice in pieces.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Drop me in your blood.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Drunken me in the great red flood.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Self-giving chalice, swallow me.</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">My skin shines in the divine wine.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">My face is cup-covered and I drown.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I fall up, in a red pool in a gold world</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">where your warm sunskin hand is there </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to catch and hold me.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Bakerwoman God, remake me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Moving to the Edge of the World </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Before Jesus~</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Maria Sacerdota~ Mary, Protopriest</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>of the New Covenant</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before Jesus was his mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before supper in the upper room,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">breakfast in the barn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before the Passover Feast,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a feeding trough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here, the altar of Earth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">fair linens of hay and seed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before his cry, her cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before his sweat of blood, her bleeding and tears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Before his offering, hers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before the breaking of bread and death,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the breaking of her body in birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before the offering of the cup,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the offering of her breast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before his blood, her blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Accidental Wisdom </i>and</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori</b></span></div>
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In June of 2006, the triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church gathered in Columbus, Ohio, elected Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Diocese of Nevada to become the next Presiding Bishop of the National Episcopal Church. She officially took office on All Saints Day, November 1, and her investiture at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. took place on November 4, followed by her official seating there the next day.<br />
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Katharine is another brilliant, talented woman like so many whose lights from God are at last being given to the world for increased illumination and joy. Her bachelor's degree was in marine biology, her master's degree and Ph.D. were in oceanography. She was a professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis and also served as marine science officer for the United States navy.<br />
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Parishioners at the Church of the Good Samaritan where Katharine served as member and lay leader had begun to tell her repeatedly that they were experiencing her spiritual and intellectual gifts in such a way as strongly indicated a vocation to the priesthood. After much prayer and reflection, Katharine earned her Master of Divinity degree and was ordained a deacon and then a priest in 1994.<br />
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In 1999 she was called to be Bishop of the Diocese of Nevada. Like her daughter who is a Captain and pilot in the United States Air Force, Katharine was an expert pilot who flew her own airplane across the expanses of her new diocese to make her episcopal visitations. A bi-linguist, Katharine gave her acceptance speech to the General Convention after she was elected Presiding Bishop in both English and Spanish. Her husband, Dick Schori, is a retired professor of mathematics and an avid mountain climber and wrestler. I wrote the blessing poem below for all of them. It appeared in the December 2007 issue of <i>Episcopal Life </i>with stunning pictures of Katharine's investiture at our National Cathedral.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Blessing Poem for Katharine Jefferts Schori, </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You married Adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Born an Advent woman, you </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">swim into the deep regions of the sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to meet more ancient creatures and learn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from them deeper mysteries of the Holy One,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">respond with your human gifts to help our species</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">help those whom we’ve harmed, call us to harm no more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You greet the Divine alive in the bathosphere, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">swim with Christ and dolphins, jellyfish, sunfish,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">clams and lobsters, teach us their wonders</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">when you return. Ever in balance, you climb </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">observe the currents and patterns of grace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in every living form. Stretching for the stars you reach</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">toward stratosphere heights, fly with your daughter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">into a God’s-Eye-view of distance and time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spirit-led, you study</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of Beyond, celebrate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the holy Within.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your husband gleans the infinite</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">through numbers, proportions of wonderment,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the small worlds invisible to thought yet sensed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">demanding exploration, the strange attractors </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and fractals comprising all matter— how spirit secretly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">marries matter in the human mind, capable of the astonishing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">creating what it imagines, the play of opposites that works,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">somehow, beyond all reckoning— he, the man of thought and theory,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">knows his own strength, climbs by inner knowledge into the realms</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of darkness and light, becomes an Olympic-style wrestler,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">while you beside him now say Yes to the strange new angels</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">who wish to wrestle with you, name you worthy of the dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rest. Work. Play. Explore. All ways of knowing take part</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the wonder of where you are now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What you need is yours, the One coming to meet you, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">refresh you, uphold and inspire you, the Advent God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Adventure marries you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> Diamonds in a Stony Field</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Copyright 2011.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> All Rights Reserved </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">openly, shamelessly, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And women seeing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any longer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wanting to dance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and see what</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from within them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What holy wonder </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their tired old</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in every woman’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Accidental Wisdom</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> iUniverse 2003.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglwBBBh_v-Mdv2hg1s8ojR85xwNjgwzDeZ5uDZABKLykS7_Tt_2Q0T-Vu84E1_-WnkI2DMCzQjaeT40b3YPz-IwkI9qFpzyW0d4TDu6wcTK7V0gGygb_9eWhmvsFo5bC0-CRxnbNvN42WVHHG9vveOaUHYtAu8YAsFmFJfIgIiyUWZpbmFt2vHcBI5AS4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglwBBBh_v-Mdv2hg1s8ojR85xwNjgwzDeZ5uDZABKLykS7_Tt_2Q0T-Vu84E1_-WnkI2DMCzQjaeT40b3YPz-IwkI9qFpzyW0d4TDu6wcTK7V0gGygb_9eWhmvsFo5bC0-CRxnbNvN42WVHHG9vveOaUHYtAu8YAsFmFJfIgIiyUWZpbmFt2vHcBI5AS4" width="160" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="article-content entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Water Women</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We do not want to rock the boat,</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">you say, mistaking our new poise</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for something safe.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We smile secretly at each other,</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sharing the reality that for some time</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">we have not been in the boat.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We jumped or were pushed</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">or fell, and some leaped overboard.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Our bodies form a freedom fleet,</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our dolphin grace is power.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We learn and teach and as we go</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">each woman sings~ each woman’s hands</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">are water wings.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Some of us have become</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">mermaids or Amazon whales</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and are swimming for our lives.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Some of us do not know how to swim.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We walk on water.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.25in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey</b>, revised edition 1988, distributed by Wisdom House~<b></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Water Women</b>, audiocassette, Wisdom House 1990~ <b>Accidental Wisdom</b>, iUniverse 2003<b> </b>and <b>This is My Body— Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b>, iUniverse 2004.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> All<b> </b>book<b> </b>titles are by Alla Renée Bozarth. 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font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>In August of 2006,</b> I had been asked by the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Oregon to be interviewed on a video that would be presented to the annual diocesan convention that autumn in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the First Ordination of a Woman to the Diaconate in the Diocese of Oregon. In preparation, I was asked to gather articles and artifacts from the past that were meaningful in the years before and after my ordinations as a deacon and priest. This request meant that I would have to go to the back corner of my storage area and pull out a trunk-sized box stuffed with articles and pictures from those years, as well as awards and letters from family, friends and strangers, some with praise and some with bitter chastisement, some loving and some hateful. I approached the task with some trepidation. This is what followed:<br /><b><br /></b></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Digging Down into the Dusty Past</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />Recently, I was preparing a pictorial document about those days<br />at the beginning of the twilight zone in my memory, when I accidentally<br />stumbled into history simply by saying Yes to becoming a priest.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I only wanted to respond to an inner call </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to be a celebrant of the Mysteries,<br />and to serve God and souls through the sacraments.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />I had no sense of real recognition about this necessitating </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">becoming a change agent, which would inevitably lead to </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">public attention and worse, media demands and distortions, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">or the exploitation that would come.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Nor did I have any idea of how quickly it would come.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I hadn’t imagined the consequences that would sometimes thwart</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">my ability to function in my very calling— that the means would</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">impede the end while at the same time accomplishing it.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I hadn’t dreamed anyone would be as blatantly<br />mean spirited as such a simple thing seemed to call forth,<br />the misogynist anger and hate it would provoke.<br />To keep focused on my ministry and life, through most </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the following years I have mercifully forgotten </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the harsher moments of unfolding reality.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I remembered the fact of the hate mail, the rejections </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by family members, colleagues and friends, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the obscene calls and death threats— but not the details.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Today I wanted to see if down at the bottom<br />of my trunk full of clippings and letters, articles and photos,<br />I had obtained and saved the photograph that bumped Watergate<br />from the top to the bottom of the front page of <i>The New York Times</i><br />on July 30, 1974, the day after the Philadelphia Ordinations.<br />It was the same scene as the one obtained by my publisher, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Paulist Press, for the back of my book, <i>Womanpriest: </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>A Personal Odyssey</i>, first edition~ though I did not remember </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">if I had actually owned it or the publisher arranged to use it </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by direct permission from <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">whose staff photographer had captured that moment— </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the eleven of us women deacons ranging in age </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from 27 (me) to 79 (Jeannette Piccard).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We were lined up in our white albs at the communion rail </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">while our ordaining bishops asked us the standard formal </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">questions of candidates for ordinations, according to </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>The Book of Common Prayer</i>. Questions of faith and dedication.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We answered them positively in unison. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It was at that moment that we heard a sharp, loud noise </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that was echoed and amplified through the stone walls</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and penetrated our bodies. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">First, I thought it was gunfire. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The shock on arrival had been news that two thousand people </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">were expected, because there hadd been a leak to the press </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">breaking our plans of solemn secrecy, and someone had already</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">planted a stink bomb at the back of the church. Philadelphia Police</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">had cleared out the bomb and formed a security guard. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Second, knowing that a person could be shot without feeling it, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I looked down to check my alb for a red stain, and then up and</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">down the row to check my sisters, and then our bishops, and </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was relieved to see no blood on any of us. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Third, I was shocked at my own first supposition, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that someone would be shooting a gun in church during a service.<br />But there was reason for my assumption.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On June 30, Alberta King— </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of the turn </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the century pastor of the Ebenezer Church in Atlanta where </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">her son Martin had inherited the mantle— had been shot to death</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sitting at the organ of the church where her family’s ministries </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">had led and served for four generations. It was six years after </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">her son’s assassination by gunfire and one day less than a month </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">before our ordination day on July 29, 1974.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />We were all momentarily frozen and no one was breathing. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Then, we later were told, it became clear that a major network</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">television camera had fallen onto the stone floor </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">producing the frightening noise. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The service continued.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />The main photograph that rushed out to the national media </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">via the Associated Press was taken just before or </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">just after that terrible moment. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8ad-MZklETfqsm0EfRi_ViZkVGfpCagxny2BUYcjVX2T9xQegAqvJ6xnpe6PNMV1R7ACtmNicwgTSnIKY-0FvDL-rCn0EfCyvc2O0CxnBKFWSmQ9cDY0HTCTsoZP2nhLQJZF92oI/s1600/Philadelphia+Inquirer0001.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; 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border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The photo was of such historical significance </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that I thought I should include it in my archival account. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I dreaded the task, mostly for the physical work involved. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The emotional cost did not come upon me until I progressed</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">along backwards through the layers of time to the trunk load</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of documents from those hard, hard, overwhelming and </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">often dangerous days. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Into the closet I went, to what amounted to my attic space </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in a corner of the guest room. Opening the door, first I saw</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">stored luggage and then Christmas decorations with</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">hibernating Christmas bears guarding them. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Then a score of photograph albums from birth through </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Phil's and my wedding day and on through until now; </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">then cameras and film and frames and hangers </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and blankets, and finally, behind everything, The Box, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">stuffed with the brimming content of the first few years </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of aftermath and not opened in nearly two decades when </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I’d last squeezed in some new material, for it continues</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">relentlessly to emerge. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On top of the Box were ten to eighteen years of saved related</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">newspapers and magazines, special awards, liturgies, gifts</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from grateful second and third generation women ordained</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the priesthood, and deacons and laywomen. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Layer by layer I lifted these true treasures. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">They wanted sorting and reviewing, and </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the day moved on without me from noon to dusk </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and darkness while I went backward in time </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">until The Box itself was free. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I pulled it forward from the back of the shelf</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at my chest level but could not lift it out, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for it weighed a fourth my own weight.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Leaving everything else in piles on the floor and the beds, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I carefully opened the weight of the years and began to dig</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">down inside it, removing pile after pile and laying them</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">crisscross for easy return. There they were at the bottom </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of it all, the original scrapbooks from when I still tried </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to keep up with the volume and place each item neatly </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">between the pages. Three huge books were thus filled,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">covering only the first few years. </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the earliest, where the picture I wanted would logically be,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">it was not. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">While scanning headlines on my way through, I tried not to </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">slow myself down by reading anything that was not my search object. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I found long articles with pictures from <i>The Chicago Tribune, </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>The San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, </i><i>Time Magazine, </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>Life Magazine, Newsweek, The Oregonian</i>— </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(beginning in 1971 with the article and accompanying </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">picture of my breakthrough ordination to the diaconate </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at Portland’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral at the top of the front page, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">three days before our wedding).</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">My eye caught headlines from local papers </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">around the country and some from abroad, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when a particularly painful event stood out </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in a paper from Akron, Ohio, with a large </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">picture of five of us eleven.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We were vested for Eucharist and on the sidewalk </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">walking toward a church for a Eucharistic liturgy </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">before the ecclesiastical trial of the Rev. Peter Beebe, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in which lawyers for his side and the side of the bishop </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">would argue for a verdict to allow or not allow him </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to continue his own priestly ministry— for having disobeyed</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">his bishop’s order to forbid any of us, his sister priests, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from functioning as priests in his church during the years </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of limbo before the church as a whole conceded </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that we existed and were validly ordained. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Until then, anyone who affirmed this reality by offering us</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">full ministerial hospitality was in violation of the male bishops’ </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">consensus that we did not exist and we were not priests. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It began to come back to me, the queasy feeling, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the heaviness of the years. The whole absurd controversy. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">My own Wisdom House altar and people were waiting </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">while I had to be out on the road attending such nonsense,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the fuss over events in which Christians were simply</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">worshiping together. But the events themselves were blessed, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">filled with the fresh breath of the Holy Spirit, as Divine Grace</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">came into the atmosphere we breathed.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ah, there was that extraordinary front page </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of <i>The National Catholic Reporter</i>, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">covered with four beautiful photographs of a young </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Roman Catholic bearded male priest and me </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">concelebrating the Holy Eucharist— </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">raising the bread and wine to be consecrated, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">raising our hands in prayer at the altar together, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as naturally as men and women of faith consecrated </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for sacramental service should do. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I remembered how my local bishop later </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">called me in to ask me to give him the name </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the Roman Catholic bishop so he could </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">write a letter of apology.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Without expression of any kind I said that his name </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was Cletus O’Donnell, but for some bizarre reason he sent </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the letter to Bill Cousins, Archbishop of Milwaukee, instead. </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It worked out fine since I was due to speak at an</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Archdiocesan Sisters’ sponsored evening event </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in Milwaukee two weeks later, so I’d come apologized for </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in advance. The worst of that event was that John Birch</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Society members were planted in the audience, and </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">one of the women rose from the back of the room to say, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“The devil speaks cleverly, and we have heard the devil </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">here tonight.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Her cold unblinking gaze directly aimed at me chilled me </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the core. I asked the Sisters to get me out of Dodge and</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">take me to the airport at once, for I’d felt the icy air of malice</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that marks cold hell. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Box was full of such memories that I had no wish to visit,<br />though the people involved who’d invited and welcomed me </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">made lovely memories. Jewish people and Unitarian people </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and Roman Catholic laywomen and Sisters were among </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the most hospitable and kind.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />Then I remembered some of the invitations I’d received</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from Episcopal churches elsewhere in different parts of the country,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">invitations which were later rescinded by order of the local bishop,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">or from pressure from wealthy anti-feminist church members—<br />slights which I simply shrugged off.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I was once in a downtown Minneapolis congregation, </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a stately gray stone church, to sign copies of <i>Womanpriest</i> following </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a noon Eucharist. I was downstairs in the bookstore preparing </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">before the liturgy, standing in a back area where I could not be seen </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by a group of three self-appointed ladies who were not ladylike </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in their verbal assault on the owner— </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“We don’t want that woman in our church.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">You must call off this heinous event and get her out of here.”<br />The owner held her ground, and when the gang of protesters</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">turned around in anger to go back upstairs and worship, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">they did not know who I was when they saw me looking at them.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />When I gave them Holy Communion later,<br />they piously bowed their heads and held up their hands<br />to receive the Body of Christ, perhaps not daring to look at me again,<br />though I do not think that they felt shame. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Despite such grueling experiences, I did my duty<br />and went on to bear witness wherever I was asked.<br />I continued my dig in The Box. My eye was caught by </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a <i>Minneapolis Tribune</i> article, featuring a good picture of me </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in my clerical collar, headlined “Woman Priest Collects Unemployment.” </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I didn’t remember the article and was embarrassed </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by the fact that the press had exploited my position.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I did remember standing in an unemployment line </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on Good Friday, 1975, and the kind man who spoke </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with me and quoted John Milton—</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“They also serve who only stand and wait.”<br />As I recall, I wasn’t trying to collect unemployment benefits,<br />but to find employment through the secular State Employment Office,<br />since no ecclesiastical institution would have me,<br />which turned out to be a terrific blessing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As time went on and hateful behavior continued from church members,<br />it became more and more clear to me that I wouldn’t have them, either.<br />I developed an allergy to institutional toxins which has activated my </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">discernment and made it more accurate as a caution against exposing </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">myself to hostilities, and it has freed me to be true to God’s lead in my life </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for the shaping of service as I’ve been able to do it, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">without compromise, which would have been impossible </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">had I been tightly tethered by any institution,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">whether academic or ecclesiastical. I remain grateful </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to be a priest of Christ within the Episcopal Church, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I cherish its heritage, and am grateful to have contributed, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in concert with many others, a call to justice and integrity </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to it along the way.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During this period I was able to be supportive </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of Roman Catholic women seeking priestly ordination, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and women seeking equal rights in other faith traditions </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as well.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In August, 1974, I'd accepted an invitation </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to attend the Roman Catholic ex-priests and ex-nuns</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Federation of Christian Ministries annual convention.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Theologian Rosemary Ruether was to have delivered </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the keynote address. She was ill and unable to come, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">but had sent a copy of her prepared text. I volunteered </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to deliver it, making use of my recently completed </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">doctorate in the oral interpretation of literature. </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I was wearing a clerical collar and a clergy dress with long sleeved </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">black top and flared black and white paisley skirt and</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">matching stole with black fringe, which I wore draped over</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">both shoulders, visually reminiscent of priestly vestments </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and clerical street garb combined.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During the address, with a raised finger to point out an idea, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I paused and said in my own words, “To paraphrase Jesus,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">'the words which I am about to speak are not my own but</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">those of the one who sent me.'”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Rosemary had written something like, “I am a Catholic theologian </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who trains men to be priests, but my church says </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that I cannot be a priest because I am a woman.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I looked at the audience to see if they got the visual joke.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The cognitively dissonant irony of visual and aural messages </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">playing against each other had not been wasted. They were grinning.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">That same group invited me to return as a speaker and workshop leader</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at their 1978 convention at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Phoenix</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">while I was on book tour with <i>Womanpriest </i>in October, 1978<i>.</i> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During the day, I led a sacred dreams workshop </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with the women in the group, most of whom had been</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">members of Roman Catholic religious orders for much </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of their lives, and some of whom currently felt the stirrings </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of a call to the priesthood, especially since the male priesthood </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was dwindling, though not yet in the throes of the scandal </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of horrifying abuses of children and others </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that would be revealed in decades to come. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As we women talked about dreams, I told them about a dream I'd had </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">years before, in which I was at a retreat center with a group of women </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who were preparing to be ordained to the priesthood the next day. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I was talking with them about the occasion, brushing their hair </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as an older sister would, reassuringly comforting their fears </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of persecution.<br /> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There was laughter also, and the sense of Divine Spirit among them </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was high. Still in the dream, on the next day, everyone was vested, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the ordinands in white albs, and I in a purple and burgundy cope. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We were in a beautiful garden and the sun was shining, but unlike </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">my own priestly ordination day, it was not too hot. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Two by two, the many ordinands walked down onto an open </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">grassy area and stood in oval formation~ then, I followed, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and ordained each woman with the kiss of peace, the traditional </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and ancient gesture of Welcome. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In my waking life on the day after the dream, a woman preparing </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for ordination in the conservative Presbyterian ministry came to talk </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with me about her concerns of negative repercussions, because she </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">also would be the first woman in her portion of the church to be ordained. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">She told me she'd had a dream in which she was hiding</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">behind a protective pillar. We talked about the pillar</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">representing Christ. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I told her the dream that I had the night before, and she smiled, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">finding herself within the great community of women </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">called to ordained ministries. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I assured her that she was not alone, and that all of us in different </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">traditions needed to go on supporting each other and praying </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">together ecumenically, in order to be strong enough to live out </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our vocations faithfully. And so we have done. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Years later in Phoenix, I told this whole story about how my soul</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">care client and I had inter-relating dreams on the same night </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">relevant to her coming experience of ordination. The women </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the workshop told their own dream stories, and we marveled </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">together at how Divine Spirit can speak to us this way, and </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">commented on biblical accounts of sacred and prophetic dreams.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On that same day, the final day of the conference, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">there was to be an evening liturgy. I was asked to preside </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at the Holy Eucharist. The male priests were to wear vestments </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and sit in the pews with clusters of their own </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">informal congregations around them.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I entered the chapel from the back and immediately knew </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that the visuals were wrong. The three women with me sensed it also.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I said to them, “This isn’t right. Please stay with me and follow my lead.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I don’t know what we’re going to do, but it will come to me.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During the Liturgy of the Word, we sat together in an area perpendicular</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the altar and congregants on the Gospel side. At the offertory hymn,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I said to them, “Come with me and stand beside me.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We moved to the altar as one. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When the hymn was over I made an announcement.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“We cannot continue until there’s been a correction here.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Roman Catholic women are being called to the priesthood</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and denied access to ordination by the male hierarchy.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Yet they must be true to their calling.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Many women are serving their communities as virtual priests</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">while no male priest is available. These dedicated women</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">have been ordained by the Spirit of God— as the Early Church</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">acknowledged baptism by water or by fire and desire, so we</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">must also acknowledge ordination by demand and desire.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The God and the people demand, and the women desire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to respond as sacramental ministers whom we call priests.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“I won’t wear vestments at the altar tonight</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">without my Roman Catholic sisters being able</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to wear them with me.” I removed my stole and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">put it around the shoulders of the woman on my left.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I removed the braided cincture from around my waist</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and put it around the waist of the woman on her left.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I removed my alb and held it up for the woman on my right</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to put it on and wear it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; 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outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and laid them on the pew, saying <i>I won’t wear false symbols either.</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Now we can continue the Eucharistic liturgy with integrity, though </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">we must remember that this integrity has not been officially achieved </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the Roman Catholic Church, and we must work to make it so.” </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Immediately the room grew larger and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the Holy Spirit pushed against the walls as if to round them out. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After the powerful Eucharist we had celebrated together, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I stood outside under the stars with Marita, Jessie and Phyllis. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The night air of Phoenix was warm. We were all still charged </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by what had happened during the liturgy, feeling a deep and </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">lasting bond among ourselves. Then one of them said with a gasp, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Your dream! It was your dream come true and including us!"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This was one of many spontaneous symbolic events</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in which I participated that pushed against the walls</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and increased the sense of Spirit present among us</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the human family as we focused on moving</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">into greater integrity, which begins with respect,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">inclusivity and justice, and a willingness to change</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when change is the only way to go on.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">In the last chapter of <i>Womanpriest, </i>I had written about the sacredness</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of being a river priest for river people, not confined by static shore life,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">but being carried along by a current of living waters into a creative</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and healing way of being who we are, exercising the freedom</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">which the river gives ~ to stop and visit either shore and explore</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the possibilities there, and then to keep moving forward again,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">each time made larger than before by newly found friendships</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with kindred spirits.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Through the incorporation of Wisdom House in 1976 </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as an ecumenical religious non-profit corporation </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and feminist spirituality and healing center, I’ve been able </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to move creatively with the need of the times in interfaith </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and artistic collaborations across the land, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">which have enriched and brought meaning </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to communities of all kinds.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />One such witness was the trip I made to Israel during late Lent in 1987.<br />My Episcopal travel agent and world humanitarian organizer friend </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mary had invited her Methodist friend Martha, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who was the religion editor and prize-winning writer </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for the then <i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i>, and me </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and a Roman Catholic priest, rector of St. Joan of Arc </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">where I’d preach on Pentecost/Mother’s Day, May 22, 1980,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">while Mt. St. Helen’s across the Columbia River from Oregon’s Mt. Hood </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was undergoing her second major eruption, unbeknownst to me. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">During my sermon on the Pentecost Scripture readings, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I held up a large framed professional photograph </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of my own Mt. Hood at Sunset, clothed in colors of fire.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I spoke of the Holy Spirit as a live volcano, whose tongues of fire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">rise up from the deep heart of God as from deep Mother Earth.<br />I commented that like all mothers including the Holy Spirit,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sometimes a volcano has to blow its top.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And then I read my non-anthropomorphic trinitarian poem,<br />“In the Name of the Bee and the Bear and the Butterfly.”</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The immediate effect of a such a powerful geological event</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">can be devastating, but the long range effect can have lasting</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">positive results, as volcanic eruptions through the shield or</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">breast-shaped cinder cone volcanoes bring rich nutrients</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from Earth’s mantle up to the surface, where they </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">immediately begin to fertilize all growing things </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At Mt. St. Helens, even before the ashes cooled,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">infant pine trees, released by heat from their cones,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">had begun to sprout green shoots, shaping a springtime</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">born safely from fire.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Years later, from time to time, members of St. Joan’s </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who also are lifetime Wisdom House members would </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">send me Sunday morning programs featuring my soul </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">children poems, and on Mother’s Day, my new </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">millennium poem, “Before Jesus Was His Mother,” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">has sometimes been read in the liturgy on Mothers’ Day. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We were fortunate that day at St. Joan’s when Mothers’ Day</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">coincided with the Feast of Pentecost. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The priest who’d invited me to preach at St. Joan's was named Harvey,<br />but for our pilgrimage of four to the Holy Land with Mary and Martha,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I called him Lazarus in honor of their brother. Martha the journalist </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">asked us pertinent theological questions in the car as we drove north </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from Jerusalem into the Galilee and up into the panhandle between </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Lebanon and Syria, where guns pointed down on us and the local </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">residents from every direction. We were in the home of the birthplace </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the River Jordan, born of the snows of Mt. Hermon in Syria, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">melting and branching into three streams and joining as one about </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">where we were in the far north near Dan Banias, where the true site </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the Transfiguration of Christ is believed by scholars to have </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">happened, up in a high place near the Golan Heights. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />Martha asked the three of us, “Do you believe in the miracles of Jesus<br />as literal events?” Harvey responded that his faith would not be shaken<br />even if the body of Jesus himself were discovered, for the stories are </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">so powerful as metaphor that he could accept them with full meaning </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at that level of depth, and the moral teachings of Christ </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">would be equally strong.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I agreed with what Harvey had said about our faith not hinging<br />on a magic show, and the integrity of the power of metaphor</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">standing on its own, but added that I personally also believe</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that most of the stories really happened, because, as </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the New Physics demonstrates, anything can happen, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and what we don’t know and can’t understand </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of space-time reality is as infinite as the universe itself.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The current dominant theory that the Creator, Who can after all </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">do anything, has given birth to an infinite cosmos supplants </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the old limited idea of a finite universe . . . but again, who can know?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We can’t even imagine such a world, based on</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the superstring theory which now presupposes more than</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">twenty dimensions, and I can barely cope with four!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />The Creator moves steadfastly and mysteriously throughout</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ongoing Creation. In addition to the ordinary miracles we’re so used to </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that we don’t think of them as miracles, strange and wondrous things </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">happen everywhere~ mysterious moment by miraculous moment, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">all the time without ceasing. Knowing many, I can say that </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">no one will be more in awe of this reality than </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a true scientist.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I celebrated the Holy Eucharist for all of us together on the shore<br />of the Sea of Galilee, near a sacred Jewish cemetery south of Tiberius<br />a few days later. Martha took several beautiful pictures during and after<br />our liturgy of Great Thanksgiving, and composed an exquisitely reverent<br />Easter Sunday front page lead story for the <i>Star Tribune</i>,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">using the headings of <i>The Book of Common Prayer</i> Eucharistic Rite, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from both the Intercessions and the Prayer of Consecration,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to structure her story.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />She quoted Harvey’s and my responses to her miracles question.<br />After that, I received phone calls and mail from people saying,<br />“I’m sorry to hear that you’ve lost your faith.” </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <br />They were blaming me for what Harvey had said,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and furthermore, they completely missed the depth</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of his own declaration of faith and devotion<br />to the Living Christ, <i>no matter what</i>.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I sigh even in re-telling of the story’s revealing end.<br />Human beings of both sexes will ever blame the woman</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for what they take to be infractions obviously committed by some man,<br />even if the infractions themselves were nothing of the kind.<br />And they will blame her more vehemently if they perceive—<br />that is <i>misperceive</i>— that she is an uppity woman. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />Back to The Box. A smaller version of the unemployment story was<br />stuck to the back of the longer version, and folded over, with another<br />not bad photograph leading the brief two paragraphs, stating that </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I was in fact collecting unemployment benefits. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I do not remember such benefits, but perhaps they were</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">calculated as what I would have received had I applied.<br /> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Someone had apparently sent this small piece of malice to me<br />anonymously, unsigned and in a no-return-address envelope—<br />for I thought it odd that the article had heavily inked<br />hand-writing across it, and wondered why<br />someone would write over the text<br />of an article like <i>that</i>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I made out some of the badly written words, which to my shock</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">nearly forty years later read: “. . . sleazy . . . taking tax payers [sic] </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">money . . . get a job as chaplain in a brothel . . .” </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">There was more but I did not further </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">contaminate my eyes and hands.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <br />I put everything back in The Box quickly, re-ordered the closet<br />with its contents of bears and Christmas and happy memories<br />in hundreds of meaningful photographs all neatly arranged,<br />left the room in a pristine state and took a long hot shower<br />after washing my hands with hot soapy water five times.<br />I do not think I shall open that box again in my lifetime.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I bless the sheets of paper on which I write these words,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and pray the weight of these things will not be as heavy </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on them as it was landing like a boulder again on my heart. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />It is enough and more than enough to have lived through such things</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">only once— There is no need for me to relive them again </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in remembrance.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Days later now, I decided last night to see what’s on the compact disc</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">an archival historian had sent me with articles related to our ordinations</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from <i>The</i> <i>New York Times,</i> 1974 – 2008. This was on top of The Box,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and I’d set it aside to review later.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Scrolling through the documents, I still didn’t find the July 30, 1974</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">article and <i>The New York Times </i>or Associate Press photo, and began </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to think I’d mis-remembered, visualizing <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer </i> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">front page instead of the <i>Times</i>, so my fable about bumping Watergate </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from the top to the bottom of the <i>Times</i> front page </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">may be just that, a mere fable produced by memory heavily colored </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by imagination, as happens when the brain cannot manage</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the sheer volume of detail in the mind’s archives.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I did, however, find a charming <i>Times</i> article and beautiful photograph</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the Rev. Patricia Park, a deacon at the time, who was greeting</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">new President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford at the door of her church</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">after services the Sunday following the Philadelphia Ordinations.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The article said that the President had enthusiastically praised her </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sermon, and both Gerry and Betty were most impressed </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by its topic— the Philadelphia Ordinations and </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the role of women in Church and Society!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">She had described the high significance of the event </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">beyond church walls, ranging out to touch the lives, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">minds and spirits of oppressed women globally, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that our act was symbolic of personal integrity </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and the creation of justice for all people.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When asked what he himself thought about the event and the people involved, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">President Ford went presidentially prudent and said he had no comment </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">before learning much more about it.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Still, everyone was beaming and joyous in the photo, and that’s what</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">they were discussing. It’s good to know, these trials and decades later,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that on the Sunday after our Day, in response to the words of a bright</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">young deacon who would later follow us into the priesthood,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">we wowed the President.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And some years after that— giving thanks for a successful recovery</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of my father from a decades long nightmarish addiction to prescription</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">drugs, originally administered for lifelong asthma— </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I happened to attend Sunday services at St. Margaret’s</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Episcopal Church in Rancho Mirage near where </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">my father had lived and died.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The intervention three years earlier had coincided with Vern Johnson’s</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">being in the area to help set up the Betty Ford Treatment Center</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at Eisenhower Hospital in Palm Desert, which would open</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the following year.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Knowing that Vern would be nearby, I arranged for him </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and his colleague at Eisenhower to lead the intervention.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Vern Johnson was an Episcopal priest in my canonical</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Diocese of Minnesota, where he'd founded the Johnson Institute </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the Twin Cities, Mecca of the medical model of addiction recovery.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">By 1984, Betty Ford was long famous as a spokesperson for breast cancer</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">research and treatment, and for the recovery movement for alcoholism </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and other addictions.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It happened that the Sunday I attended their home parish, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the Fords were present at the Eucharist. I quietly slipped out </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from the aisle seat of my pew near the wall to write Betty Ford </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a thank you note for her ministry.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Her life was redemptive in every respect and her living out</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">witness to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic values relentlessly</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">expressed in the Gospels by Rabbi Yeshua, whom Christians</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">regard as the Living Christ, was a beautiful role model </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for all people.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I told her so in my note, written on the back of the bulletin</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">or a scrap of paper I’d found. I had no thought of meeting her after</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the service, but instead stepped outside where their car was parked</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in front of the church doors and unobtrusively gave my note to the Fords’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">driver, who assured me with a sweet smile and a tip of his hat</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that he would see that Ms. Ford received my message.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I donned my black clerical suit and white collar very rarely</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from the beginning, wearing it more often after my ordination</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the diaconate and through the early years after my ordination</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the priesthood and on many public speaking occasions</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the early years, then moved away from the formality</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of the professional uniform and title, especially as news</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">about abusive clergy began to fill the newspapers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The atrocities committed by male clergy</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">were a scandal to me as well as</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the rest of the world.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I decided to reserve formal professional attire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for the most important and public situations.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The last time I wore my clerical collar was for a television</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">interview in 1992, when I was asked to respond to </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the British Synod of Bishops and Parliament approving </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the ordination of women to the priesthood in England.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">They had yet to approve the ordination of women to the episcopate</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Sacred Order of Bishops) but were working on it in 2010. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">[It was finally approved by all three houses of the General Synod—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Laity, Clergy (priests and deacons) and Bishops</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on Bastille Day, July 14, 2014.]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I originally wrote this memoir fragment while going through my archives</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in late August, 2006, and when I looked at this writing on July 18, 2012,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>The London Times </i> and BBC television reported:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Church wants women bishops, Vatican says No.” In other words,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">women in all levels of ordained authority would spoil ecumenical </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">relations between Rome and Canterbury.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This argument was an insult to all female Episcopalians forty years ago </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when it was used to block women from the priesthood, because it was </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">tantamount to saying that agreement between men from different traditions </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was more important than agreement between men and women </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">within their own tradition. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Their own women members simply don’t count.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Male ego strikes again, proclaiming its hegemony </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">over what is right and just.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Regarding women, the effort to compromise with oppression </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">is the same as allowing slave owners who couldn’t let go </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of their family tradition to go on keeping their slaves bound </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">after the Emancipation Proclamation and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the Union victory for justice.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>The Observer </i>and<i> The Guardian </i>reported that the vote for women </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the bishopric (as the English often refer to the episcopate) failed </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">because it included a bid by ultra-patriarchal African bishops through </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to add compromise amendments </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that would “protect them from female ministry.” </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">One wonders how this went down with their own mothers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">That day at St. Margaret’s, I was dressed in normal street clothes,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as is my custom. I simply told the Fords’ driver that I was a priest</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">among the first eleven women ordained in 1974, hoping that </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">information would motivate him to safeguard and deliver my note.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He nodded and smiled broadly in recognition.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When I told him that I didn’t want to intrude on the Fords,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">he assured me it would be no intrusion, but much appreciated</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by the former First Lady. In my book, she remains a First Lady.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And I am glad to have had the opportunity to let her know.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Purgatory Papers</b>, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">copyright 2014 </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>The Archbishop of Canterbury Meets with the Pope, Again</b> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I’ve been in rooms like that at the Vatican. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A small nook in the honeycomb, complete with lofty ceiling,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">drafts and the Persian rug. You can smell antiquity and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sterility mingling. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Tears and laughter have taken place here, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">but more often tense posturing. There he is, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our guy leaning forward across the table, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the visitor, the guest summoned by grumblings, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and the home guy with his back to the wall </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on the host side of the furnishings. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Was it a clever coup? An insult? A dawn raid? </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Pope opened his doors to disaffected Anglicans</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">seeking a suitable hiding place from change. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">They’ve never adjusted to liturgy in the common language </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">after forty years of practice in contemporary vernacular, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and they can’t stand the idea of men not being the only ones </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in skirts offering Divine Food at the altar.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">They’ve had thirty-five years to learn to be gracious </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when a woman priest offers them Holy Communion, or </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">a pregnant pastor enlightens them about thanksgiving and</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">generosity and what living in the image of Christ might mean.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">But what they say they can’t stomach, the last straw, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the thing they refuse to swallow, and so forth, is </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">institutional acceptance of homosexuality. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Well, for heaven’s sake. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Anyone who still thinks that it’s an unnatural abomination </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">knows nothing about how God-created Nature regulates population, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">or how generous Nature is in allowing beings to love whom they love, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and let this love help increase the health of the planet and our species.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How does creativity transpire and how do new species form if not by</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">individuals branching out from the mandated norms? On the level </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of conscious change for the greater good of Creation,would they </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">impede God's creative and inspiring evolutionary processes </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of adaptation to reality?</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A new species of loving kindness consciousness is what can manifest </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from all this senseless conflict, once people stop feeling threatened </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by behavior that deviates from unnaturally rigid norms.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Too bad for the ex-Anglican refugees in Rome. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It won’t be long (within another century should do it, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and sooner, please God) before their last refuge of choice </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(other than Eastern Orthodoxy) has more women priests</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">than Anglicana, and all the gay prelates come out of their </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">closets in the College of Cardinals to celebrate and bless </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the marriages of women and men, though not necessarily </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with each other, but all the same, with someone they intend </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to love for life. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The celebration of love and respect in the acceptance of diversity—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">What could be more God-like than that? </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <b> </b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Purgatory Papers</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Copyright 2014</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Re-vision of Life is Where We Begin</b> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Beyond anger, beyond blame,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">beyond shame and despair~</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when you can’t cope with a situation—</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Friend, start walking around it</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">until you come to an angle of vision</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">you can live with.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Make walking sticks of poems and prayers.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It may take you several turns, with cursing</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and crying and shouting to God and</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">muttering to yourself and scolding</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">everybody involved, but keep on</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">walking around it and blinking,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">wiping your eyes, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">clearing cobwebs</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from your mind.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And in a moment of Grace you may stop</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and see what might be a revelation.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It will open your heart</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and relax your mind.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It will give you a way to proceed</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">without further destruction.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">That’s where your real work begins, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for you will have already done</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the necessary preparations.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Purgatory Papers</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">copyright 2014<b></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and <b>Vietnam Docupoem</b></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Blurb Booksmart, 2013.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://vietnamdocupoembyallabozarth.blogspot.com/" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">vietnamdocupoembyallabozarth.blogspot.com</a> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zk445DtwSO4/UaMciScJdEI/AAAAAAAADLM/EQt3szJMh88/s1600/Mary+Magdalen~Christ+Appearing+to+Mary+Magdalene+at+the+Empty+Tomb~Artist+Unknown.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zk445DtwSO4/UaMciScJdEI/AAAAAAAADLM/EQt3szJMh88/s320/Mary+Magdalen~Christ+Appearing+to+Mary+Magdalene+at+the+Empty+Tomb~Artist+Unknown.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="273" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><b> Solitary Witness— In Memory of Her</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i> Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>throughout the world, </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i> what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i> </i>Matthew 26:13 </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mary, of the fishing town of Migdal or Magdala, prospered in Galilee,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">yet she suffered— perhaps those many devils known </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by everyone besieged in the talons of depression— </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">anger, futility, sadness, fatigue, physical distress,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">flatness of spirit and no sense of access to the core self or soul.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a class="rg_hl uh_hl" href="http://www.google.com/imgres?start=141&num=10&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-beta&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=962&bih=549&tbm=isch&tbnid=-Pp7HHEhStm5HM:&imgrefurl=http://valuestockphoto.com/stockimages/Objects/Natural/ocean_natureshell0591.jpg.html&docid=QJVVY3Ov8CKXeM&imgurl=http://valuestockphoto.com/downloads/32500-3/ocean_natureshell0591.jpg&w=384&h=400&ei=M92lT9vaAtTciAKbm-ClAg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=700&vpy=175&dur=916&hovh=229&hovw=220&tx=115&ty=130&sig=110091512143816895977&page=13&tbnh=174&tbnw=167&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:141,i:143" id="rg_hl" style="clear: right; color: #773ab2; display: inline; float: right; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; height: 229px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; width: 220px;"><img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="229" data-width="220" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZ-aibKR14_o4fk5YCslIv5KJ5KOhF3j17Tac416fGMHVtBhBz" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 229px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative; width: 220px;" width="192" /></a>Then she met Someone, a rabbi, scholar </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and carpenter who had friends </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the fishing profession.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">He recognized and acknowledged</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who she really was—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>You are a great heart, </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>a generous and loving soul,</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>a born leader, brilliant and brave</i></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>and you have the gift</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>of a wise and </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>independent spirit </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>needed for the work that we do.</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Then he invited her to join them.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">She may have been that generous woman who anointed</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">his feet with precious ointment, and perhaps from envy</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">was rebuked for wastefulness by other disciples. Jesus said,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“Who else among you has shown such courage and love?”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and promised that she would be remembered for it,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">calling her prophet indeed by defending her with</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the recognition that she was preparing his body for burial.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Though she bore the envy of men who craved first position,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">she embraced the honor of being chosen the one closest to</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">his heart, first among equals, apostle to the apostles, heartbroken</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and solitary witness to Christ’s resurrection, entrusted companion.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">This liberated woman was known by God to be the one strong enough</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to leave the Beloved, in order to fulfill his desire that she tell this</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">astonishing truth to the others, whether they believed it or not,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and to call them out of hiding and move them to attend.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Later she was driven away by lesser powers </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">across the Mediterranean Sea, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">shipwrecked by storm and her own destiny, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and came to the French port</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of Marseilles, then some time after that went to Italy.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Gospel reached across the sea through her well-seasoned voice.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Making her way to Rome to confront the tyrant there, she preached</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to Tiberius Caesar, telling him about Yeshua’s birth, life, unjust death</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and resurrection, holding an egg in her hand to illustrate the miracles</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">of birth and rebirth.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The emperor interrupted her, scoffing dismissively, saying</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“A person could no more rise up from the dead back into life</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">than that egg in your hand could turn red,” whereupon, it did,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">followed by his astonished and egg-shaped face.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Led by her strong hearted compassion and divine inspiration,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">for many years of her ministry Mary served and healed those</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">who were sick in body or soul in southern France, taught</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and preached to all who would receive her without prejudice.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">At last, her perceptive work among others done,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">she came to fulfill a deeper calling of solitude</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to the creative contemplative life.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mary Magdalene retired to the home prepared for her by angels,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and lived her last thirty years alone and unknown in forests of Provence.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Where else for such a woman to prepare for heaven</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">than in the company of angels and harmonious</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">natural neighbors, and in the South of France?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">To this day French bakers honor her holy presence </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in their own homeland</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">by creating the sweet delicate pastry named Madeleine, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">made with butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt and wheat, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the taste of honey, the color of gold—</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and, in memory of her deliverance to them by storm, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">they are borne from the bakers’ fire </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in the shape of a seashell.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1JXWEKr1Udo/UaMX96HAcCI/AAAAAAAADK8/vXV-KaFgV0c/s1600/Madeleines.jpeg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1JXWEKr1Udo/UaMX96HAcCI/AAAAAAAADK8/vXV-KaFgV0c/s200/Madeleines.jpeg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>www.petesweets.com</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>Poem by Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>in <b>Purgatory Papers</b>, copyright 2013</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The sculpture at the top is called “Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at the Empty Tomb.” The sculptor is Bruce Wolf. The piece is part of an Easter scene with the Risen Christ in Mission Santa Barbara, California. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><b>And then, a new breakthrough!<br />April 29, 2017</b><br /><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iTngJcfn_Kc/WQX6_X-4lII/AAAAAAAAF-w/73X3wZSou5IPXTGZB9yaQ7fAr43n4apNQCLcB/s1600/Bishop%2BBarbara%2BHarris%2Band%2BBishop%2BJennifer%2BBaskerville-Burrows%2Bof%2BIndianapolis.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iTngJcfn_Kc/WQX6_X-4lII/AAAAAAAAF-w/73X3wZSou5IPXTGZB9yaQ7fAr43n4apNQCLcB/s640/Bishop%2BBarbara%2BHarris%2Band%2BBishop%2BJennifer%2BBaskerville-Burrows%2Bof%2BIndianapolis.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Rt. Rev. Bishop Barbara Harris, the first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church who was consecrated as Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Massachusetts on February 11, 1989, with the newly consecrated Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows of the Diocese of Indianapolis~ our first female African American diocesan bishop! Hooray for the Episcopal Church and the Great Communion!</span></span></b></div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Note: A bishop suffragan (or suffragan bishop) is comparable to an associate director of an organization, while a diocesan bishop is the bishop fully in charge, a kind of president of a diocese, which is a geographical area with a certain number of churches in its jurisdiction, usually the same as a state or province, or a portion of a large state or province. Another type of bishop, a bishop coadjutor, is one who serves as a kind of vice-president to the diocesan bishop's president, in line to become diocesan bishop on the retirement of the incumbent. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">O Happy Day!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">From Bishop Baskerville-Burrows' Timeline on the Day of Her Episcopal Consecration~</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Don't expect to arrive a<span class="text_exposed_show">t a place of knowing.<br />You are on the road of discovering, my friend,<br />and the flame in your heart<br />will only inconstantly let you know<br />that there also walks the Beloved, who yearns<br />only for this one passionate delight<br />above all the glories of heaven:<br />every moment, even the least memorable,<br />the least noticed at all,<br />simply to be with you."</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(Steve Garnaas-Holmes, <i>The Road</i>)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">B</span>ishop Barbara Harris stands behind Bishop Baskerville-Burrows. I am going to call Barbara in a few days and rejoice with her, the cross-bearer at the Philadelphia Ordinations in 1974, who became the first woman to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church on February 11, 1<span class="text_exposed_show">989, when she began her episcopate as the Bishop Suffragan (with more authority than an assistant bishop and less than a diocesan bishop) of the Diocese of Massachusetts, and here she is, resplendent at this happy occasion in 2017. I imagine it is a day of fulfillment for her in the same way that the day of her consecration was for me as one of the Philadelphia Eleven. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Our priestly ordinations seemed like Part One of a sweeping saga, a journey into fulfillment, still fraught with frustrations and obstacles for women and LGBT clergy as it will be for a long time to come, but it was a beginning. Witnessing Bishop Harris' consecration I thought, "This is Part Two of our ordination day." The election and investiture of our first female Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori in 2006, was Part Three, and Bishop Baskerville-Burrows' consecration as the first African American female diocesan bishop is Part Four~ from breakthrough to completion of movement to the beginning of a new level of wholeness for the Episcopal Church.</span></div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqMbW86cyiCZoF3FYfsRjP2CMHkz-925U_o3NYsi4WkjfUaGGe75v4NfNc18rMnI3P55Xo77U1ZY0nxRUKTERtFH1IMowK2r_-NTObqKEd8_AtQTvGEcCaTHORIhK_2L3HiutvnMTQcN7/s1600/Bishop+Jennifer+Baskerville-Burrows+with+her+family.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqMbW86cyiCZoF3FYfsRjP2CMHkz-925U_o3NYsi4WkjfUaGGe75v4NfNc18rMnI3P55Xo77U1ZY0nxRUKTERtFH1IMowK2r_-NTObqKEd8_AtQTvGEcCaTHORIhK_2L3HiutvnMTQcN7/s640/Bishop+Jennifer+Baskerville-Burrows+with+her+family.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="480" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows with her family~ husband Harrison Burrows and their son, Timothy.</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Her ascension is historic. The denomination, which spans the United States and 17 other countries, has seen a few black female bishops in assisting roles. But never has the Episcopal Church chosen a black woman to lead a diocese.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">“'Like all positions of leadership in the church and corporate America, being first is a wonderful thing,' she said, seated in a dark<span class="text_exposed_show"> wooden pew in the cathedral. 'It’s breaking the stained glass ceiling.'”</span></span></span></div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Baskerville-Burrows, 50, was elected last fall at the diocesan convention and replaces the retiring Right Rev. Catherine M. Waynick. To mark the occasion, 44 bishops from throughout the United States and beyond will descend on Indianapolis for an installation ceremony set for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Butler’s Clowes Hall.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"As a black woman who grew up in the projects, Baskerville-Burrows might seem an unlikely person to lead an Indiana diocese where the vast majority of the parishioners are white. But her journey to this point is insightful."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ENS:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Baskerville-Burrows is the 26th woman elected bishop in the Episcopal Church and will be the 12th female diocesan bishop, as well as the 44th African-American bishop and the 1,100thbishop overall in the Episcopal Church’s history.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"The bishop-elect is also an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a federally recognized tribe based on Long Island in New York. Her paternal grandfather was a Shinnecock member who grew up on the tribe’s reservation.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Baskerville-Burrows became a Christian as a young adult and chose to join the Episcopal Church at Trinity Church Wall Street in lower Manhattan. She was baptized there in 1989, the year after she graduated from college."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.episcopalcafe.com%2Fjennifer-baskerville-burrows-will-become-next-bishop-of-indianapolis%2F&h=ATNMdBWG0TyatH3baBA9K39_WZuIXajJKVHcO-Tk1SJ85LhqXWbXQLDZH96x4KhtNxmFV7h0gQaA6qm3L_MHzsXrVToJG33tvNsW2f5hK2J6IO21ZwJfrnotqCKzWsemsU9aeMeHHEwV&enc=AZP7_vNkpWYp8UMiUMCpuXlGV8OIY0-O9RrvNpStjty6ReOOaSnug1IApiCcqCsWIL0GJGN_X4vSLtzP3IMJfHNi4T2pCvI_M0oDFOVyTZpgW1BIavaJ3s0dbNPMaThmyDA4H67qQKcnWkX3F4UhRZVkFAd6v0z8TJYyRs2d8qV_HFKbdFbGpxZaHN7WgOg57qk&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">http://www.episcopalcafe.com/jennifer-baskerville-burrows-…/</a></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>A Celebration of Ongoing Ministry</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222;">Between Bishop Katharine's June 2006 Election and her </span><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222;">November 1, All Saints Day Installation as Presiding Bishop, an August 2006 Wedding </span><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222;">at Wisdom House is commemorated here in pictures </span><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222;">on the 39th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations, </span><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222;">July 29th 2013~ </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Claudia Daly and Stan Kusunoki</b>, poet friends in St. Paul, Minnesota, sent me a lovely card with a poem by Stan and a prose message from Claudia for the 39th anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations. They have pictures of their dancing priest along their stairway wall among their family photos. The picture on the card front was taken by Stan of a few members of the American Lady butterfly species who visited their purple asters and other flowers by the dozens a few summers ago. Claudia's message: "We feel so blessed to be loving observers of your life's work ~ Yes, participants and beneficiaries, too . . ."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">For more than twenty years of friendship, I've been constantly inspired by the talents of these lovely people. Claudia has produced award winning programs for National Public Broadcasting. <a href="http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Claudia-Daly/23404454" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">www.zoominfo.com/p/Claudia-Daly/23404454 </a>She created "For Kids' Sake Radio," and the landmark series, "The Lives of the Children" with classroom voice interviews by innovative teachers and students in schools around the country in keeping with the explorations of the great child psychiatrist and Harvard professor, Robert Coles. Before that she headed the radio unit of the William Benton Broadcast Project of the University of Chicago where she developed and was executive producer of three major award-winning series: </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"The Heart of the Story," "Speakers' Corner,"and for PBS and NPR,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"The Glory and the Power: Fundamentalisms Observed" </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-06-14/entertainment/9206120393_1_fundamentalists-gush-emunim-muslim-fundamentalism" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-06-14/entertainment/9206120393_1_fundamentalists-gush-emunim-muslim-fundamentalism </a> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Both Claudia and Stan have worked for Public Broadcasting on several levels over the decades. Currently, Stanley is a composer, musician, poet and tenured teacher of gifted children in the public school system. He was nominated for 2013 Minnesota Teacher of the Year by the Shakopee Public Schools. Claudia and Stan are each other's first hearers for the poetry that they write. They have given poetry readings together to wide acclaim in the Twin Cities. You can see why I cherish their friendship.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After decades of deepening friendship and mutual devotion, Claudia and Stan eloped over the mountains to the foot of Mt. Hood in Western Oregon and were married in a nuptial Mass at the backyard altar of Wisdom House on August 11, 2006.<br /> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Stanley Kusunoki and Claudia Hampston Daly</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">on their Wedding Day, August 11, 2006,</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">at Wisdom House in Sandy, Oregon,</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with Best Man Bill Seach and Best Woman Nancy Worssam.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Long-time friends of the bride and groom, they are also married to each other.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">They flew down from Seattle to witness and bless this wonderful event. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Rev. 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Hood. On Sunday they came to celebrate the Holy Eucharist in our chapel here, a spirited liturgy of poetry read by Claudia along with the Scripture readings from the lectionary and original songs and music sung and played by Stan on his lovely guitar, Estrella. After Communion Claudia and Alla danced together around the altar and joined Stan in singing "Song of the Soul." Then I (Alla) joined them at Zoe's and feasted with them at the table which they prepared together. I got to help stir the risotto while Stan and Claudia tended to the festive salad and wine. 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color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_94">That eleven American Ladies</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_152 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_66" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_142" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_94">robed not as butterflies but as priests</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_203 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_68" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_151" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">changed the world of faith</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_171 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_69" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_168" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">challenged the undoable</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_174 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_70" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_170" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A brand new liturgical dance</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_177 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_71" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_173" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">that even today blows new life</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_182 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_72" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_176" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">like sirocco chipping away mountains</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_185 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_73" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_181" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">to sand the hierarchy made plain</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_188 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_74" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_184" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and even</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_191 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_75" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_187" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We watch with pleasure</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_194 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_76" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_190" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">as Alla leaps and spins</span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_196 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_77" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_193" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_198" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_201 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_78" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_195" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_208">Stanley Kusunoki</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_210 yui_3_7_2_38_1376087224410_80" id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_200" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_206"> St. Paul, Minnesota</span><br /><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_206"> </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_206">1999 Philadelphia Ordinations 25th anniversary pictures.</span></span><br /></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The black choir of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Philadelphia came over to the Church of the Advocate to sing Gospel Songs for us. Their Spirit Songs moved me to sing with them with my whole body, uplifted</span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> feet and arms first. Centrifugal Motion helped it along. </span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In 1794, St. Thomas parish was founded by the Rev. Absalom Jones, freed from slavery just ten years earlier. He was the first black person to be ordained in the Episcopal Church~ a man whose dignity and determination are shown in his portrait here: </span></span></span><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WVWHDGYFQlo/VkHVNkMqInI/AAAAAAAAE_c/EuwwlFUAkic/s1600/Absalom%2BJones%252C%2Bfirst%2Bblack%2Bperson%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bordained%2Ban%2BEpiscopal%2Bpriest%2Band%2Bfounder%2Bof%2BSt.%2BThomas%2BEpiscopal%2BChurch%252C%2BPhiladelphia%2Bin%2B1794.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WVWHDGYFQlo/VkHVNkMqInI/AAAAAAAAE_c/EuwwlFUAkic/s320/Absalom%2BJones%252C%2Bfirst%2Bblack%2Bperson%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bordained%2Ban%2BEpiscopal%2Bpriest%2Band%2Bfounder%2Bof%2BSt.%2BThomas%2BEpiscopal%2BChurch%252C%2BPhiladelphia%2Bin%2B1794.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; 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font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_Jones</a> </span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span id="yiv7868886885yui_3_7_2_80_1376081212219_206"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BebZMeU--ww/UgV98Gwl9-I/AAAAAAAADRw/loBsZNhMHvU/s1600/25th+anniversary+dance.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" height="260" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BebZMeU--ww/UgV98Gwl9-I/AAAAAAAADRw/loBsZNhMHvU/s400/25th+anniversary+dance.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; 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font-size: medium;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">prayer dance.</span></span></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQBcXch7lwaxdET7asii8jgJGFg6tQDN-AoUpyImUWzfYaTHFW7UYisFH9YFlaZGRGGCyuVpJ1aJQ_hXUzJA5Y7_zvenqAcUCfi5bqYK2u0iBkrXOz6BMkrlTzwoMQo0Epr8cLNAezaJIb/s1600/25th+anniversary+Gospel+Dervish+Dance+improved+cropped.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><img border="0" class="" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1010" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQBcXch7lwaxdET7asii8jgJGFg6tQDN-AoUpyImUWzfYaTHFW7UYisFH9YFlaZGRGGCyuVpJ1aJQ_hXUzJA5Y7_zvenqAcUCfi5bqYK2u0iBkrXOz6BMkrlTzwoMQo0Epr8cLNAezaJIb/s400/25th+anniversary+Gospel+Dervish+Dance+improved+cropped.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 6pt; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>In Memory of Miriam </b><b>the Prophet</b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 6pt; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Near the end of the silver anniversary service after Holy Communion, members of St. Thomas Episcopal Church who had come to sing at the Church of the Advocate offered their uplifting songs and voices to God. The power and beauty of the Spirit-filled music moved me to break into a spontaneous dance of Praise and Thanksgiving.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47Pe21tQqQ8JfpmG0jm1L1BPL2f75r7pWVi7I-3omzlHxDmA8GpFipewT_1wHSnJXDh-4jUwYGjJ_0n546likHc6CkP2z3C426v1-kDVFu3XsC-KeypJVGDSB9UeJdTZhn4gtLMj2H9ZT/s1600/Post-Communion+Gospel+Dance.jpg" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; 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outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I, Miriam, took my tambourine</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">and finger cymbals with me</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">out of the land of slavery</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with its daily insults and petty</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">exemptions, and so remain always</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ready to dance on the long, long journey,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">dance at every victory, beginning with</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">surviving the Passover, then the strange</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">occurrence when the Red Sea dried beneath</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">our feet as we ran, safely passing over the narrow</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">strip onto the Sinai Peninsula, all the way out</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">from the land of longing toward the storied memory of Home.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv630619313MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I danced to the song that spilled out of me,</span></span></div><div class="yiv630619313MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">loud up to Heaven, rejoicing on hopeful feet,</span></span></div><div class="yiv630619313MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">rejoicing with arms flying through warm air like wings,<br />and water followed me all the way through<br />the great desert, to keep the people alive and faithful.</span></span></div><div class="yiv630619313MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">God knows it may take a long time to return.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It’s been five hundred years, after all.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A long time gone, but our stories keep it alive</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">in our hearts. I wonder if I’ll live to see it from</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the mountains across River Jordan. I wonder</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">if I’ll be an old woman, and dance down</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the side of Mt. Nebo with arms wide open,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">heart fluttering strong, leading the way</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with cymbals and songs into the Promised Land.</span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <i> </i><br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b>, copyright 2013. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Also shown on the "Jerusalem" post and page. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">To read about Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" and how it was </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">indirectly inspired by the Philadelphia Ordinations:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://womenpriestsatthedinnerparty.blogspot.com/" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">womenpriestsatthedinnerparty.blogspot.com</a> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_1_1384843390231_2497" id="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_8_1384838197095_59" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_1_1384843390231_2497" id="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_8_1384838197095_59" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><h3 id="yui_3_13_0_1_1384838197095_22965" style="font-weight: bolder; margin: 0.83em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The <span class="subject" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1384838197095_23691">Philadelphia Ordinations in The Timetables of History</span> </span></span></h3><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><h3 id="yui_3_13_0_1_1384838197095_22965" style="font-weight: bolder; margin: 0.83em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span id="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_8_1384838197095_38">The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by Bernard Grun, based on Werner Stein's <b>Kulturfahrplan</b>, copyright 1946, 1963 by F. A. Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung, English Languagae Copyright 1975 by Simon and Schuster.</span></span></span></h3><div class="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_1_1384843390231_2506" id="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_8_1384838197095_262" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The Philadelphia Ordinations, with two errors, are cited on p. 576: </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Four U.S. Episcopal bishops defy church laws and ordain 11 women as priests." </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The first English Edition was published at the beginning of 1975 and the citing of the Philadelphia Ordinations thus arrives at the end of this volume, with these inaccuracies: there was no church (canon) law prohibiting women from the priesthood or episcopate, and discrimination against women ordained to the diaconate had been dealt with in 1970 when the sexist canon pertaining to ordained women was eliminated and all deacons were included under the same canon on the diaconate. There was no church law that prohibited the ordination of women deacons to the priesthood, and by extension to the episcopate. Therefore, no prohibitive canon law was defied, but custom and practice were defied by virtue of being changed, and some of the technical requirements were impeded through no fault of the women, but by diocesan Standing Committees refusing to give their canonically required approval to the precedent-breaking ordinations. The second error in <i>The Timetables </i>was to say that four bishops ordained us. While four Episcopal bishops participated, only three actually ordained the eleven to the priesthood. The fourth, the in-office bishop of Costa Rica, was present in support of the event.<br /> </span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"></span></span><br /><div class="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_1_1384843390231_2497" id="yiv8033358437yui_3_13_0_8_1384838197095_59" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">It's good to know that the Philadelphia Ordinations were regarded as a sufficiently significant event in the history of the human family to be included in this first English Edition of <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Timetables of History.</span> I see on the Amazon.com page for this book that two more copyrights exist with additional pages in 1979 and 1991, but we made the very end of the first 1975 English Edition which concluded with events in 1974. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span></span><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Contribute to Wisdom House </b><br />whenever you shop at amazon.com<br />by selecting the Smile program option <br />at the link below to begin your shopping experience:<br /><br /><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-1322680" style="color: #773ab2; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">http://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-1322680</a> <br /><br /><b>Direct tax deductible contributions can be made </b><br /><b>to support the healing and soulful ministry of</b><br /><b>Wisdom House where Alla Bozarth is resident priest</b><br /><b>by sending a check to</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Wisdom House</b><br /><b>43222 SE Tapp Rd.</b><br /><b>Sandy, OR 97055</b><br /><br /><b>Thank You! 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</div></div>Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-78190100808831160052011-11-12T14:08:00.008-08:002023-11-24T11:43:16.061-08:00Faith Means Wisdom, Beauty and Love~ Hightlights on Martin Luther and Claude Monet<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>. . . God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> and in the flowers and clouds and stars. </i>Martin Luther<i><br /></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two days ago, November 10 in 1483 (worded to emphasize<i> </i></span></span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the ever-present past</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">) Martin Luther was born. Reading about him </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">inspired me to write another poem. Here are two poems, old and new, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">in that order, in his honor</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Reformation</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Hope has two beautiful daughters.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Their names are anger and courage—</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>anger at the way things are, and courage to see </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that they do not remain the way they are.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>Augustine of Hippo</b><i> </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s a simple thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I survived the storm,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">having promised God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to become a priest, I did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I began to see abuses</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which disgusted me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One by one, I named them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nailed them on the church door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The churchly princes did not like</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my telling the world the truth about them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They honored me by declaring me an outlaw,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which, of course, gave me many followers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had not counted on. I said of the princes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“To hell with them,” and rejoined myself</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the peasant prince of peace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I said to the warring princes in gold and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">laced brocade, I no longer belong to you. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am no longer a citizen of your country. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You have no right over my person </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to deny me, denounce me or burn me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You did not listen when I was among you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What you do now is none of my concern</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so long as it does no further harm to me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but be herewith warned~ </span></span><br />
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<i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>All Saints Day Black Walnut Tree</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Autumn Blaze</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Who loves not woman, wine and song</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> remains a fool his whole life long.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">idiots allergic to dissent, you knew the right way to live,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which was to make love and sing and yes, drink wine and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be cheerful, so you at forty-one helped smuggle a beautiful</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">young nun out of the convent in a pickled fish barrel and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">married her, celebrated the joy of sex and made six children</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">together, grew gardens, rejoiced in the glorious colors </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of vegetables, let juices of plum and tomato roll down </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your chins, sank your teeth into corn with oodles </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of sweet cream butter, delighted in the multiverses of each</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other’s smooth firm bodies, and learned to love your own</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bodily existence as well, even as passion matured into</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">compassion while time sagged around the edges of your faces</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and created soft folds in your beloved's body and your own,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you loved them both the more gratefully and tenderly—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when you simply insisted that people stop trying to buy </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their way into heaven by using money for indulgences </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as substitutes for spontaneous and disciplined genuine acts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of unselfish love, that flow from the soul without regard </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to self-interest— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Letter to the Romans, was not trying to earn your way </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into heaven by proving to God that you blindly,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unintelligently believed the works without question, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but rather, either way, whether through unselfish or </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even occasionally selfish acts of love, or by living in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unselfconsciously buoyant awareness and wonderment </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with Holy Mystery, you should be utterly yourself </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as best you can, and not give a thought to reward </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for your ego on Earth or anywhere Else. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What Jesus Really Said</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Not much.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I am<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> here—<br /> now—<br /> with you.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I see you,<br /> God-in-you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I need to touch you.<br /> I need you to touch me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I need to be alone sometimes.<br /> I will not leave you alone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Respect all beings.<br /> Be compassionate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Take risks to help others<br /> and to become your whole self.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Be present in every moment.<br /> Love as fully as life allows.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Live as fully as love allows.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> I love you.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Let yourself be loved.<br /> Accept acceptance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Remember me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><br /> <b>Wisdom and Wonderment</b> <br /> Sheed & Ward 1993 and <br /> <b>The Book of Bliss </b><br /> iUniverse 2000</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a dead dove being eaten by a cat—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cathedral that houses the birthing gown</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from a miniature house on wheels</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which she draws along like a shadow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between heaven and hell</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in beatific madness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to its senses,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Rose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with more ease, accepting what is.</span></span></div>
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On November 14 in 1840, the Master of Impressionism
Claude Monet was born. Who is not inspired by the beauty he brought
forth to make our eyes happy and our souls rejoice? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Water Lilies 1916-1919 by Claude Monet</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">and Monet's Vegetable~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Photograph</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio_R8PmofNee4KmuyzajIonDpzvriOoGatkKtZDJ4YBgrdn7B_wZj2SEmKcNIfFg1fqtkSmQjE2xKO3A8S8QdAmarxL0Ai7BMs1631wqBZG3-qMOR9QL21yvNz3mPbePoMVddQFsmVkObOCtL-Nn8M9JA7Pabqk2W08JvEv0pxSzTzIdhSFcY-7r-d2DM/s490/Monet's%20Vegetable%20Garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="490" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio_R8PmofNee4KmuyzajIonDpzvriOoGatkKtZDJ4YBgrdn7B_wZj2SEmKcNIfFg1fqtkSmQjE2xKO3A8S8QdAmarxL0Ai7BMs1631wqBZG3-qMOR9QL21yvNz3mPbePoMVddQFsmVkObOCtL-Nn8M9JA7Pabqk2W08JvEv0pxSzTzIdhSFcY-7r-d2DM/s320/Monet's%20Vegetable%20Garden.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Photograph from "Avant Garden"</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://buckscountymag.com/home--garden/monet%E2%80%99s-vegetable-garden/">https://buckscountymag.com/home--garden/monet%E2%80%99s-vegetable-garden/</a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b> Claude Monet</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ate his garden with all </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his senses, cooked up feasts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with flowering hands and made </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soul paintings of his flowers — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">herbs, most fertile of color </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bowers of rainbow roses </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without rules, altogether </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monet was painting Heaven</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even before going there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>This Mortal Marriage</b></span></span></div>
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Water Lilies~ The Clouds by Claude Monet 1903</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Puzzling Act is Solved</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The painter gives away the last remnant</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of his physical life with his wife with his own hand,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">consigning her sacred letters one by one to the fire.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is not to deny her existence or erase their marriage,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but to create on the white canvas of his future a new marriage,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is now entirely spiritual, filled with the sensual beauties </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in his garden and on his table~ the rest, including </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his love for her, solely
within his own body of work.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> <i>Alla Renée
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>On the Death of Monet’s Wife</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To translate means to bring into the afterworld</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> without causing death~ </i>from Webster's.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Hanging Ode by Anne Shams</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Pain passes but beauty remains.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Renoir to Matisse </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Beloved dies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He ceases to live</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in his art, and therefore,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his life. He reads her</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">letters of thirty years</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until each word</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is burned into his heart.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then he gives</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the letters to fire.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How can he do it?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He no longer paints—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but when he erases</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">evidence of her physical life </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he forgets that his soul has died,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and he begins again—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">resurrecting her through</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">painting water lilies, irises,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a rainbow of different colored roses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cascading along the branches</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a single tree. The more he forgets</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to remember her earthly beauty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the more he translates it, fine stroke</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to broad brushwork, into many,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">many growing gardens.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><i> </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span><b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">My Passion for Art</span></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><b>A Way</b><b> to Grieve</b></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the world there are people who sometimes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">paint, play with clay, sing, play a musical</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When your life has been ripped away</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">weeping or numbness— there is only </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">loving and living again—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">become an artist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1908 you began to lose</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the colors, mirrors of light, the purples loosened</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their hold on the iris, the blues faded to gray.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a curtain that veiled you from the world you longed for,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">could not touch for another decade and more. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You increased the color, though it was all dark, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you poured more over the sepia-tinged amorphous</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">space of the canvass, your brush strokes went heavy </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and long, you threw away the palette and poured </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cans of paint directly on huge canvases, making </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the night- bleeding heavy irises extend off the borders </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your soul in an outcry for vision. That tiny portion </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the work you allowed the world to have gave </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an impression of power, but your vitality went </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into anger, and what the world actually saw was </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the text of distress, reading itself loudly and raw </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">onto the shaking surface of every day’s effort. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to bring up the meanings and music from the soul’s </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pool of infinite response and right phrase—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you worked daily in your quest for light and filled </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your waste bins with loss. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some housekeeper or personal assistant retrieved </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your refuse unknown to you, and nearly a century later, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the pieces marked through with huge X’s and mangled </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with your finger marks still visible in broad rage strokes </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They do not read the explanatory signs </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">along the progression of pain, telling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the story of your eyes and your mind </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in its grief cry. They see art betrayed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like the corrupt relics of a saint.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I read the signs, meet the paintings </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">clinically, not critically. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your autobiographical unfolding in the color </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bleeds that did not reveal your heavenly vision, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the leaking out of life from your eyes— </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the waterfall come over them that did not wash </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but occluded, dimming the light from your world </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and siphoning life from your art, forcing you </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to compensate with sheer physicality and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the feverish beauty buried </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the chemistry of colors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">were you able again to move heaven into earthly music,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">embody the unearthly colors of angels’ wings in the flowers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that bloomed in your garden and dreams, and then</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everything you touched sang again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That last little room of redemption that showed </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the paintings that followed, your right lens captured </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by time at the end of your time yet radiant anew </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a window to all of sweet heaven, where a single branch</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blossoms out with variations of an entire garden, in hues </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of mauve, rose, indigo, violet, coral and cinnamon red, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we dance in our minds to the music that blooms </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in such sublime concert from the joyous baton </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">In 1920 you still filled</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the whole canvas with color~~</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">in ‘25, less and less,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and finally before your death </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">in ‘26 we see so much</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">space opening up all around </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and between, aging white </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">canvas barely beckoning us </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">deeper into infinite</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">unpaintable color and pure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">light through the windows </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">of your second sight.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Tonight at the museum </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">a tall blond woman</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">walked through the last room </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">of your last paintings </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and said, “That’s pretty,” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">passing a whole spring </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">child’s play countryside</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">of coiling colored wisteria, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">yellow and mauve irises, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">bright viridian and purple </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">pewter, bronzed shadows </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">of magenta iris almost </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">invisibly emerging into </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">another dimension~~</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and finally, </span><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">The Roses</span></i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">~~ </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the roses! where perhaps </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">she did not have time to see </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the goddess Iris herself </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">announcing such Good News,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">the Gospel of Living Color </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">from the miraculous bush</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">with rainbow bright cobalt, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">plum, intense pink roses,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">all on the same magical branch</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">like a heavenly menorah, like</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">blue feathers of seraphim, fanning </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">out such greenfire sweetness, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and the hot coral flames</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">at deep center. </span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">My Passion for Art</span></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Jade Mountain Gathering of Scholars</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1784, artist unknown, as shown </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>in the Asian Collection of Jade</b><b id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2754"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2612"> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2754"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2612">A Gathering of Poets at the Lanting Pavilion in 353 AD</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2612"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2612">At the Orchid Pavilion,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2616">men in clusters or </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2620">scattered </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2620">on safe
paths below </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">await </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">their select goblet of wine</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">floating by in a stream </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">that will stop and </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">require </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">of each one of them a poem~</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">and </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2628">in carved crevices</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">from their collection,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">a mountain made of words </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2624">sculpted under the shade
trees</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2628">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2632">Will no one in the
future</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2636"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2636">guess why none of them
is even</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2636"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2636">pretending to advance upward? </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2644"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2644">Truly made of jade</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2648">,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2648"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2648">the light green mass</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652">looks warm and
inviting</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2652">and none of us knows</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2656"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2656"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2656"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2656">how cold and awful</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2660"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2660"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2660"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2660">it probably was,</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2664"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2664"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2664"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2664">a serene falsity,</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2668"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2668"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2668"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2668">or why the little
men</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2672"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2672"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2672"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2672">look so embarrassed
and </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2672"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2672">pale</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2676"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2676">along the rocky way,</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2680"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2680"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2680"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2680">hiding in conversation</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2684"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2684"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2684"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2684">the fact that they
are</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688"></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688">momentarily </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688">too thin-souled</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2688">for
the climb.</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2696"> </span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2696"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2696">Alla Renée Bozarth</span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2700"><b> </b></span><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2700"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv9506297700" id="yiv9506297700yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2700"><b>Sparrow Songs</b> © 1982</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv9456438313" id="yiv9456438313yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2402">"The
theme represented on this jade boulder, the largest piece of jade carving
outside of China, refers to an event that occurred on March 3 in the lunar
calendar of 353. Wang Xizhi (303-361), a scholar official and one of the most
esteemed Chinese calligraphers of all time, together with 41 renowned scholars
and officials, gathered at Lanting or Orchid Pavilion in Shaoxing (in
present-day Zhejiang province), celebrating the Spring Purification Festival.
The scholars engaged in a drinking contest: Wine cups were floated down a small
winding creek as the men sat along its banks; whenever a cup stopped, the man
closest to the cup was required to empty it and write a poem. In the end, 26 of
the participants composed 37 poems. Wang Xizhi was asked to write an
introduction to the collection of these poems. Written in semi-cursive script
and known as <i class="yiv9456438313" id="yiv9456438313yui_3_16_0_1_1446084618305_2404">Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion</i> (transcribed on the top of the mountain by the Qianlong Emperor), it is the
best known and most copied calligraphic work in art history. While the mountain
image alone is enough to convey a close association between the jade sculpture
and many painted landscapes, the Qianlong Emperor's seal and poem carved at the
top on the other side of the boulder reinforces the idea of the jade mountain as
a three-dimensional landscape painting." Text from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as shown on Arts Connected~ Tools for Teaching the Arts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">“The <i>yin/yang </i>symbol,” he said.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Do you know what it means?” she asked. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">{The boy was only twelve.} </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">in Great Light</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">there is Great Darkness</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">there is Great Light.”</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Lament and Praise</b>, iUniverse 2003</span></span></div>
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<b> Communion</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of my body, straight and fluid </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a magnet’s needle, drawing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all creation home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Me<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ssenger</span> blood bends down, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back, then side to side, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">balanced in space, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stretched in all directions,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">seeking the lively gift.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My body waits her journey </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into living things, deep </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down lying animals, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">incarnate little creatures</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">feasting on my bones.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the warm wet tingle </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of earth down under </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">creatures meet most dearly, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sleep and secrets shared </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in earth from cell to cell, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">decomposing to recompose,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">most real deep down incorporation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fire heats the inside planet </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">keeping all things going, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sacrament of changes, fire </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">burns to fulfill being itself, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">immaterial but loving matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fire is the process</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of deep transformation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fire guided mercury moving me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up, down, from side to side </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a body wise with soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bury me under blue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">waterfall that my body </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may wash deep and straight </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into Earth’s heart </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in live green ground </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a silver arrow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">skin like broken glass </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">letting the billion particles </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of blood<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>spill out, surprised </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by air, flooding into </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">waiting pores.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is my body given for you, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heart having melted into sod. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is my blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sunsoaked arms springing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up green shoots newly </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for fruit trees </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may once again find light </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and warm electric shock </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of summer rain,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my legs be nests </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gentle beasts to</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">busily bed their eggs,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my eye-spaces cradle </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">doubly round wild iris bulbs, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my eyes see sky again </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the growing upward </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">faces of red, purple, electric blue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O wildest new wild irises in green fields</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with singing roots where <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other's bodies</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">once hummed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my nails and hair the hidden </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flow of seed from past nights </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into days for future years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as nesting matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hoping for life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a tangle of grasses, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my cradle arms outstretched </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">across oceans for opposite </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">once-joined lands </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reuniting the times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into its fullest and best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You who desired us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and growing among us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that trusting spirit </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from mutual good will,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that is Your Own dream coming true. Amen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">getting back what one’s lost</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is its basic meaning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How this happens is endless,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">filling the possibility waves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and meridian lines</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the story of everything—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming the lost energy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that returns with forgiveness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming potential obscured by distress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming meaningful work lost to illness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming stature pressed down by abuse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming one’s core self, lost </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to obsession, resentment and grief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming freedom stolen by fear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redeeming beauty from blindness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">grace from the night and stars from our tears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Redemption is waking from the past</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to discover the sun, over and over</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and over again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">humanity too should be able </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to sink into earth away from air </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down where the great fires are </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and so become a black body of </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">diamond, marvelous gift of before </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be dug for, sought and died for, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so greatly would the power of heat </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be craved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The anthracite graves </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of growing things </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">belong to another form. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We can only worship </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at their openings </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where hidden bones </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">emerge as stones </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">full of desire for fire, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">glowing with the memory </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of weeds, trees, cactus </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and camellia flower; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">offer them the gift, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">receive their sacrifice </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with reverent thanks, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">glad for our own part. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From such rich decay, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breakdown, all history </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is played, recycled, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breaks through, and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this, down here and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">surfacing and loved, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is what is meant by </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Communion of Saints.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One day, God walked in, pale from the grey steppe,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">slit-eyed against the wind, and stopped,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">said, Colour me, breathe your blood into my mouth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I said, Here is the blood of all our people,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">these are their bruises, blue and purple,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gold, brown, and pale green wash of death.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These (god) are the chromatic pains of flesh,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I said, I trust I shall make you blush,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O I shall stain you with the scars of birth</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For ever, I shall root you in the wood,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">under the sun shall bake you bread</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of beechmast, never let you forth</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the white desert, to the starving sand.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But we shall sit and speak around</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one table, share one food, one earth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>After Silent Centuries</i></span></span><br />
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Williams (since 2013, Baron Lord Williams of Oystermouth, MP for life)
was the Archbishop of Wales where he was born and raised from 1999-2002,
when he became the Archbishop of Canterbury until he stepped down in
2012. He studied theology at Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated
Doctor of Philosophy from Wadham College, Oxford in 1975. He was
ordained to the diaconate at Ely Cathedral in 1977 and to the priesthood
in 1978. He was Bishop of Monmouth (Wales) before he became Archbishop
of Wales. He is now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. His
biography describes him as an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. I
would describe him as poet, priest and scholar.
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">portion of a larger oil painting on canvas by Carole Baker</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The masts of the Beech tree [</span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Fagus sylvatica</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">] offer an
alternative to hazelnuts, albeit tiny in size. Containing a high fat
content, oil extracted from the masts was used for cooking and lighting
in the past, and once it had matured was claimed to be no inferior to
olive oil. The kernels can be nibbled on raw while lightly toasting them really
brings out a pungent nutty flavour. There is an eighteenth century
reference to the kernels being put in soups.</span></div>
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that suitably treated they could be turned into bread. It is also
claimed that roasted beechnuts have been used as a coffee substitute.
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
living flowers and trees in the images on this post are from Alla's
garden except for those in the
two images following "True Story of a Russian Orphan," and the
exquisite irises in the last five floral closeups, which grow in the
garden of my friends Julie Stephens and Butch Hattenberg.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All photos are by Alla except for the Monet paintings and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all of the icon and beech mast images which are from the Internet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
Rumi roses graphic on the gray marble table was created by Lora Matz on
fine onion skin paper. The delicate image is displayed under glass for
protection.</span></span></div>
Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-45360389586162288042011-11-07T07:53:00.004-08:002021-05-10T21:31:42.797-07:00Surprising Grace in The Prayer Imperative<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll white;">A note on the process of inspiration and Grace, after thinking about the casual form in which the inspiration for “The Prayer Imperative” came— in a letter from a dear friend<span style="font-size: small;">~</span> poet, public broadcasting producer and writer Claudia Hampston Daly, written as a computer class assignment with the apologetic first sentence, “I have no topic,” and within a few words, turning into her sharing of concern for someone in need of our prayers, with the comment that prayer is not optional, but imperative, which struck me into poetry. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll white;">That's how Surprising Grace happens~ you're going along innocently performing your tasks and doing something mundane when suddenly you notice a gem has dropped into the moment. You notice it, and if it doesn’t shatter you, you pick it up, look at it carefully from every angle, feel its texture and look deeply into its colors. You clean and polish it several times, and then rub it dry and let it rest overnight. You wake up to discover that something new and meaningful has entered the world. Thanks be to God for the Grace to notice! Thanks be to God for the Grace of accidentally helping it to happen, either as conduit or observer! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the beginning we think</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that prayer is an option,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a contingency plan,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a last resort.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then life happens to us.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reality floods us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life gathers us into bundles</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and teaches us survival skills</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as, one by one and sometimes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all together, it pushes us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of the boat and directly into</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the white water current</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of our rushed and rushing lives.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we right our capsized vessels</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">time after time and climb into them again,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as we right ourselves over and over yet tumble we will, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we learn the humbling essence of things.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We learn the prayer imperative.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We come to comprehend</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of prevenient prayer and abandon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">convenient prayer as an arrogant notion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We need the Grace that comes before us, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Grace that comes with us, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Grace that comes after us </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to make the repairs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is where prevenient prayer meets prevenient Grace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Grace that comes before us reveals an indwelling Grace, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rounding the rough edges in the chaos of all the way through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the violent current one cannot swim,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let alone do so gracefully. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One can only pray and practice </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">strokes of contrast and strokes of oneness, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now surrendering to the Larger Life</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where we could never know we needed to be</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gives us the insight of how to float between waves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then we'll find ourselves no longer seized </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by turbulence but, perhaps with</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, I pray—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great Loving Mystery, precede me in every thought and act~ </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Succeed me through every challenging moment~ </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recede me from every danger of harm to body or soul.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come before me to create a pathway. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come beside me to hold me on course.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come after me to mend all the messes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The inevitable messes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Keep one hand on my shoulder<br />
and one hand over my mouth,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as the wise ones pray.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prepare and repair my paths and my ways,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and do so for all my loved ones and foes</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the length of our days.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And this is my hourly prayer,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">day by day and night unto night.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes it is the prayer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I breathe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the end of my life</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I shall have become all prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What is Prayer?</b><b> </b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prayer is intimacy with the Great Mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be every moment aware of the Presence — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how you are loved!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She takes off Her wings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to heal you, He surrenders</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everything for your sake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At all times in every</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hidden, open place</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It lives in your deep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soul’s core, It moves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in your moving and acts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through your skin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the skin or bark or shell</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of all living beings— forms of angels,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and also of water, rocks, and fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So be awake to the life that is loving you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sing your prayer, laugh your prayer, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dance your prayer, run</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and weep and sweat your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sleep your prayer, eat your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">paint, sculpt, hammer and read your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sweep, dig, rake, drive and hoe your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">garden and farm and build and clean your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wash, iron, vacuum, sew, embroider and pickle your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">compute, touch, bend and fold, but never delete</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or mutilate your prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Learn and play your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">work and rest your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fast and feast your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">argue, talk, whisper, listen and shout your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">groan and moan and spit and sneeze your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">swim and hunt and cook your prayer,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">digest and become your prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Release and recover your prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Breathe your prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be your prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let prayer be your thinking</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and thriving, your passionate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">living and humble dying</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back into Earth and God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let prayer be your senses and sex,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your political power, your confusion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and vision for good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let teaching tolerance and all childcare be prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let your mistakes be a prayer, and your unknowing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let remorse and forgiveness be prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Make love in every act,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">create growth in each intent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nature in any form serves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as sanctuary and temple.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let your bath be an oracle chamber,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">every trip anywhere a pilgrimage,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and your dreambed each night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Holy of Holies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so you are praying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So you do what you be,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all your being is blessed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all your life is a prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And all your acts are a blessing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Prayer in Great Need</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">God, You are Big Enough for what is Too Big for us. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Into Your Loving Care I entrust all of us </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">who are overwhelmed with need. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Sustain and transform our lives to be channels of Your Love to others. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Free us from worry and anxiety </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and fill our minds and our hands with the means to live peacefully. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Empower our intentions to realize Your own desire </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Keep us from desperation and despair </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and fill our beings with calm and steady purpose </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">that is in harmony with Your Own Mind and Purpose. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">When we cannot provide for ourselves, provide for us. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Infuse our spirits with Your Spirit of inspired serenity </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and active energy for the Greatest Possible Good.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">In Christ I pray for us all. Amen</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the practice</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Beginner’s Mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every day you wake up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it is your first day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of existence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You do not remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that in your sleep you cried out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your unconscious expletive: <i>Help!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not yet knowing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from sleep, stretch, stand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and move toward the window</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You look out and see the world</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the first time, lay your eyes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on your first tree, a budding flower,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an open bloom, and green grass </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or brown earth, or perhaps gray pavement</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on which kids down the street are playing softball. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then from somewhere you hear a piano sending forth </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sound of Gershwin, Chopin or Brahms, and it is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the first music you have ever heard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You breathe in the scent of grass, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of coffee, of cedar, and it is your first</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">experience of fragrance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You feel the sunlight touching your face,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sensation of rain or the kiss of a snowflake,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it is the first time your skin feels a caress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And you stand still to breathe,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it is your first breath </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and first moment </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of astonished awareness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then you blink</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and open your eyes wider </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and speak your first word</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and first prayer—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today belongs to you, including the Night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Twilight at their beginning and end</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the sky says Good Morning and Good Night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in living color or gentle silver light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everything that happens will be yours</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because you are part of it, as everything </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grace belongs to us all as part of the Gift</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of existence, and suffering as part of its Mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">belong to us all— animal, plant, mineral, microbe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Decline with its Gifts of Remembrance </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Moments of Redemption belong to us all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Living and Dying, none of it is as expected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the interruptions that Life Is. Even what looks like dying is Life being born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everything necessary comes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the layers and folds of the process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Make your life happen between and within them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trust, whatever the moment,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that everything missing and needed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will manifest in unexpected ways</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in time or beyond time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ride the waves of your life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and learn as you live. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will always be Here </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but not in the same way as yesterday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even in danger, you will always be safe in God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">though you be utterly changed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than the sum</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your ancestors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From your parents</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you inherited</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a biological legacy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you received</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the invitation </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To them you owe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and nothing more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rest is You.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You came here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a soul fresh hot</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the Heart of God, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rounded out by your own </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eternal mysteries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You came here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with your own</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">innocence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wisdom,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your own capacity</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for compassion,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your own genius</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for being alive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over the course</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your lifetime</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will be given</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">countless opportunities</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to discover and develop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sum of these gifts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the best of your ability.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You must stay alert</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and be aware of these moments</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Grace when they come,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sit down with them or</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">run or fly with them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to fulfill your potential</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for Life and Completion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every day, you can be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God’s dream coming true.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your being </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">becomes you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear One.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carry on!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Light casts diamond</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ancient song of waves returning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> beckon me also</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> To give my body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> back to the Sea</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>La Mer, Ma Mère</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Mother</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">spread out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over Earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like a great </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ever-young</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grandmother’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lap, sunlight on water</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her apron</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The global sea,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the beautiful womb</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of beginnings, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">maturing for eons,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kissed by lightning~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And bringing forth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from that union</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of water and fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The forming original eggs, then fertile,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">filling with unknown and never-before</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">truly new things, sea froth their amniotic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bed in Earth’s changed ground of creation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And from there, for delight of it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ceaselessly bearing dreamed beings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into real being, deep sea vegetation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stirring up future mountains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to shelter them, the Alps, the Himalaya, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Cascades and Urals</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Starfish to come, the turtle,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cormorant, collie and whale, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">human astronauts (both boy and girl)~~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And every forest on the planet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was first conceived from these</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">swimmers and divers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The love between them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the strange attractors,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the opposites</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in their orgasmic moment,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lightning-quick</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the sea rumble of clouds, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">followed by the slower, loud</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">love song of thunder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whereby, from the elemental marriage </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of sea and sky, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">first Music was born~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, by and by,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their offspring allowed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to evolve for a few</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">billion years</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here we are,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">joining the great sibling </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">symphony of the Living</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and singing our hearts out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the wonder of it all</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alla Renée Bozarth </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Prayer for Luminosity</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that you will be tuned</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to recognize all of God’s sweet </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">surprises for you throughout your life,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and when Luminous Presence appears,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will feel the great joy of gratitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that your life will give you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more joy than sorrow,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that pain will be small and fleeting,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and that you will learn ways </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to turn pain into blessing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that in hard times you will be able</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">among prickles and thorns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how fully love embraces you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that you will live and move and be in Grace,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and that this Grace will give you the power to give,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the freedom to receive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that you will grow in wisdom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that you will create your own ways</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to celebrate the Mysteries, and to be happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">The reflection
below was written in the darkening season of the northern hemisphere and suggests that Joy is
a kind of pilot light in the soul, ever-ready to ignite, always waiting without
impatience, even if there are long distances of time and circumstance when the
top burners remain dark and cold. Even there, looking closely, one can see the
faint blue light of dormant readiness. Joy patiently waits for a person’s
hunger for it to well up to consciousness and activate an old memory in the
directing mind, which finally reaches to make a single clear turn beyond its
small self. Joy is faithful, the pilot light that is sourced by Grace and never
entirely extinguished in the God-loved soul. Its blue fire burns hottest in
sustaining such readiness, because it rests so near to its invisible Source.</span></div>
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<b>The Sovereignty of Joy</b><br />
<br />
Joy is not elation or intensity, but a steady pilot light in the soul,<br />
ever-ready to ignite, waiting without impatience through seasons<br />
of darkness and cold, a dormant violet-blue flame that burns hottest,<br />
resting so near to the Source, patient for our awakening wonder reaching<br />
to engage it. Then live~ past the point of tears, into the regions of Joy.<br />
<br />
Is joy merely intense happiness? Not always, Friend.<br />
Happiness means to be in harmony with what happens.<br />
One cannot always be happy, for horrid things happen<br />
daily in the world, worthy of distress and compassion.<br />
<br />
The body succumbs to the scars laid on it by time,<br />
and its workings are not always happy.<br />
<br />
The mind and heart, too, can break away from happiness<br />
under overwhelming stress.<br />
<br />
Mind and heart seem to break clean through.<br />
Joy does not depend on aye or nay circumstance<br />
in regions of the pursuit and practice of happiness.<br />
Joy exists in the soul as a sovereign and radiant place,<br />
a free and independent state.<br />
<br />
Even in sorrow, its presence breaks through anew,<br />
crossing bridges of loss as sunlight crosses a river,<br />
with the promise of wholehearted faithfulness—<br />
<br />
Joy reveals itself, the fact of itself, in new possibilities,<br />
at once inviting us into them and assuring us that they are alive<br />
deep inside us, a gathering light deeper than grief, where all is well.<br />
Pray, then, to be a way for that light, among similar lights<br />
in waking sisters and brothers, to enter the world.<br />
<br />
Alla Renée Bozarth<br />
Paradise~ Copyright 2008.<br />
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Here is the sudden light in the Heart of the Rose which I noticed one
stressful year only because I looked up from my Advent twilight table
with my head at the just the right angle~ to see how the candle flame
lined up with the Core of the Pristine rose by means of a reflection on
the glass over its photograph, which was sitting in its silk frame on
the cherry wood table in front of me to my left. I saw it as a reminder
of the pilot light in my heart, waiting to be noticed, waiting for me to
turn my head at an angle of vision that would allow me to see into the
darkness and find the light. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Human Butterfly Effect </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Everything depends on sensitivity to initial conditions.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i>A first principle of Chaos Theory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday morning and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the melancholy masses</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">begin their trudge,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">worming down</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the highways and train tracks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or hitting the tasks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">immediate to home,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">family or farm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, a butterfly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">moves its wings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Hong Kong</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and a rainstorm begins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the Amazon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the same time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a genuinely glad</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">human being</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">opens a door</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and out from its</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">opening happiness pours— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine what will happen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the world </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from that single</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">catastrophically</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wonderful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Comes the Dawn</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Comes the dawn</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is the most delicious</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">expression </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meaning, light breaks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the cracks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of unconsciousness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I see it now!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Dismal Swamp</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the wife of his dreams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pulls into the driveway</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just in case you’re not awake</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the sound of the grinding motor—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meaning the recycle truck</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tears up the hill close behind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to finish the job, windows rolled down</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Morning News and Bee Bop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">show turned up on the radio—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meaning the few hours nap I had</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with or without dreams ends</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a scramble of random firings,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my brain dumping everything it’s got </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on top of me, lying there helpless in bed—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the whole dictionary of words out of order,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the names in the World Atlas, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">segments of every song, play, movie, poem</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or story taken in suddenly mixed together</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without sense, and me sweating beneath them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">miserable and longing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for one solid night’s sleep in my life—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meaning might as well get up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or go to bed if I haven’t yet,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">take a hello or goodbye look</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out the door to check on the moon,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stars and sun, and ask the birds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to please keep it down</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until noon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Comes the dawn and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I may or may not understand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the meaning of life, love,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">suffering and death, but</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will understand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that it’s worthwhile</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be part of it all, and a lucky break</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when I get to celebrate any of it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by writing it down and sending it up</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if it were, every morning, a birthday present</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the God of Sunrise
and New Day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Meaning, Aha!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I see it all now . . .</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Silk Mimosa Miracle Tree</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The silk mimosa over rhododendron and roses in the front yard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was not expected to live beyond the usual fifteen years when I came here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so many years ago, and the tree was already ten years old. When it was nearly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">twenty, it was growing so rapidly and generously that it broke its heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with flowers one day in a downpour. Half the tree covered all of the grass,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">separated and gone to green for good. A huge gash of a wound healed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to a tarry scar, and an immense curl of strong scar tissue protectively encircled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the old exposed injury. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Wounded Healer Tree</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In years following, more limbs broke away from the miraculous body, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but it only gave twice as much of itself in response.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It began to compensate for a bare north flank by stretching west as far </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as the road, gracefully leaning over my mailbox to welcome the neighbors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">home and see more of the world. It blesses all who pass through the back door,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">extending itself all the way east toward the mountain, to see dawn rising</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the forest, pasture and wildflower meadow. One would have to stand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a quarter mile away to capture the whole creature’s image, with panoramic lens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at thirt</span>y-four years <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of age</span>, it is going strong at more than twice its predicted</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">life span, and no one is allowed to tell it so, but only, Live On! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">watered with love and gratitude and praise down to its deeply receptive roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what really keeps it alive, I think, is its own divine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fragrance, that every summer draws hundreds of hummingbirds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to take up residence among the delicate, honey-scented flowers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And they do not sing when they are at home, these small wonder birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They talk! On and on they chatter, with amazing voices that are not music</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but plain and unmistakable conversation. They play together by twos in loops </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and lusty leaps, dive bombing the roses, then going back to sip on those pink silk, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">feathery fan flowers, where they get high until, by noon, they are so drunk with love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for this tree that they encircle it into a great, green and gold</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and bright pink hummingbird hug. They rest all afternoon, passed out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on its branches, leaning their heads on its leaves, still chattering</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to each other in their dreams, with voices relentless as wings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The tree sways gently beneath these fairylike birds and sprouts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">another hundred buds, shedding its feathers and leaves all over the grass</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to make room. Noisy? you ask. Messy! you say. And I say, when you love someone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you don’t so much mind the mess, and that is not noise but speech, and soon </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will have listened long enough to be able myself to converse among them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and help the silk tree to live for a hundred years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> ~ <b>The Frequencies of Sound</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Wounded Healer nurses new life.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In addition to the storm wound above this image frame, the tree is damaged by disease from<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the inside on its weakened north flank, visi<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ble here from t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he ground up. Meanwhile, its healthy roots <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wooded turned to earth by the tree itself help feed the spring flow<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ers around its base, beginning with daffodils<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Lavender tul<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ips a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wait their bloom a few weeks later.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b> </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The
birds in my silk mimosa tree are too tiny to show up in the photos, but
here are a few more of their exotic cousins to enjoy. </span><br />
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hummingbird guests (rather, my hosts) are mostly modest ruby throats
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plain or elaborate, the hummingbird's nature inspires wonderment, as do
the flowers and trees.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today someone sent me a portrait of God the Grumpy Geezer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did not think much of it, except, “Poor Guy.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looks like God’s kids don’t call </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the pension check doesn’t </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He’d probably have road rage behind the wheel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used to just dismiss the fellow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his friends, and foes need not apply.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of humanity’s worst traits: immature, petty, spiteful, judgmental,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">prone to child abuse. God is Love is Right, but this is no portrait</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Real God I know and love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That wonderful Jewish Rabbi Yeshua who showed so much</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be the Palestine Pansy when he’s really so direct it’s daunting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m taking a turn of conscience today. I feel so bad for the persona </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in this postcard picture of him on my kitchen counter that I’ve decided </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is really something because I’m no baker. </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Better make him a cherry crisp. I can do that! </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll whip up my special whipped cream with vanilla and orange </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">extracts to go with it and watch him purr when he smells it </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the oven and gets a look at the beautiful pie cherry color, </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then takes his first bite of it with a big dollop </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After that he’ll feel relaxed, and I’ll start telling him jokes~ the penguin joke</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is good, but maybe he’s heard it too often. Lena and Ole are always winners.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I’ll give him a blanket and show him the chaise in the spring garden</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so he can take a nap under the cherry tree and inhale lilacs and roses,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and drift off to the lullaby of water falling over rocks and birdsongs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll tell the birds to keep their serenade melodious and gentle,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not as raucous as it sometimes gets around here. . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll bet he hasn’t had a time like this in millennia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After awhile I’ll wake him up with a big loud kiss on his furrowed forehead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll ask him to tell me his dreams. . . . I’ll listen with all my heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I’ll ask how the Beautiful Lady I know as God is. . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I do just that, and God’s husband says, She cries tears of joy every day, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">happiness into feelings she can only express in a river of love. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She says there is all the anguish of the world in them, getting bathed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and balmed, all the things she can’t prevent because of the way</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everything mixed in and tumbling, but we love it all the more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">firm but gentler voice. They seem to relate better to her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is breathtakingly beautiful, that’s a fact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that water came next, and air, then the dark matter of space, and finally things </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cooled and settled here and there, in space pockets of places, to make the most</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, I know all this. We did it together and are still doing it, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">best to those you understand, so you make us over into your own image </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This whole conversation is just for your benefit, Child,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I’m enjoying it, too. You had a good point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We went along with your ancestors and overdid that God the Father image, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and look what happened. Men behaving badly, thinking they’re being</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“godly,” lording it over everything and referring to me as “Lord,” too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do they think I’m an Englishman and a member of the Peerage? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now there’s a rowdy bunch. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What goes on in the House of Lords would never pass for Paradise. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, Honey, Thanks for the great afternoon. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’d better go see what your Mama God wants me to do for her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe we’ll show up together in a beautiful flower in your garden tomorrow,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and see if We/I/You can do something to help that sick silk tree of yours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s already bloomed for you for 30 years past its life expectancy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But you and the tree love and appreciate each other so it sticks around,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even diseased and wounded, forgetting its suffering for love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and letting your grateful tears of joy water its roots </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as deep as deep can be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks for shedding them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mama God loves you for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So do I. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m not really such a bad guy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I really am full of love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s all I am, really,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but love is big as Infinity</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and has so many forms,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">also to Infinity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope humans in general really, really get that and start painting me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as other things besides themselves on a bad day or in a sappy mood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here in the garden with you, sharing my dreams with a good listener,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m feeling some tears of joy of my own coming on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe it’ll rain soon. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grandma God, now she’s the real gardener.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She says, “Gramps, you’re an old fraud pretending </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not to understand about feelings sometimes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When you let them come, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your tears make beautiful rainbows.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Better Prayer </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgive me, Self and Soul and God, for asking for the wrong thing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my constant demand lately for a vacation from poetry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How silly of me to keep missing the obvious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How normal, endearing as an ignorant child.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My true shabbat will come another way,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not from cessation of creativity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grant me, Mother and Source of All,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">relaxed receptivity to the gifts You continue to give me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remind me what a blessing they are, each one coming </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no matter how busy I am trying to keep up with chores</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and respond to the needs of others, practice good stewardship</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of body and mind and home, good love toward family, neighbors and friends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everything important! Everything essential! Everything precious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grant me the Grace to understand how to juggle lightly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without breaking what I may drop here and there,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without becoming needlessly frustrated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Increase my thanks and joy, Mother God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That is my better prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>White Water </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The shade that covers the window </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">quivers with warmth and luminosity now~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">demanding that you open your eyes and your mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wake up to the empty easel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the new day~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A hand gives it a tug and up it flies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The easel becomes a small window in a mural</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that extends endlessly in every direction,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">completely encircling you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blink and colors appear, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">shapes of mountains and rivers, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">textures of forests, open spaces of green </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dotted with wildflowers~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They may be buildings and faces,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">people wearing colorful skirts and shirts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and pants and dresses, they may be gardens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and forests and farms where hard work is done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stretch and all around and between them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even right through them, the white water current of life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holds it together and constantly changes the picture, pulls
you in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through the day and into the night, always the colors,
always the water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will never be able to keep up, having to attend so
carefully</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to one small part at a time, while always the water is sweeping
you along~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Relentlessly, an intense current from depths of power </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and a wave of desire from the future ~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sweep you forward, compel you on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pace yourself well, then. Leave room for the unknown. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Participate without being scattered. Learn the flow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enjoy the ride. Surrender. You do not have to be in charge. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rain</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rain is good sleeping weather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It brings down good dreams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and washes the soul clean.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rain fluffs the mind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and eases the brain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sleep through the rain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and come alive again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During the day watch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sky and read the clouds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As you go about your work,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">listen with one ear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You may hear the conversation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">start up again, the visiting that goes on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between rain and everything drawing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and depending on it for life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In hope-fulfilling rain, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the hills rustle with pleasure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the pavement sings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When rain comes, give thanks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rain gives us the plush of green </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and brings bloom to everything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When my heart is out of rhythm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and my life is out of synch,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I go for a rain walk just to listen,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and right away I feel invited </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and enter the conversation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Half a mile down the road</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I begin to feel Grace in my stride.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyone around— I with my complaints, the cows, the horse, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the goats, the large dogs and small cats, the trees and
their birds </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">talking to the rain, the people smiling and waving </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as they drive by— everyone relaxes and is friendlier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The listening teaches me to breathe again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether gentle or boisterous, rain songs enliven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and calm every cell. The voices of rain steady my heart, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">right my thinking, restore my reason, dissolve my griefs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in their overflow and make me well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And when I return to the door of my task-laden life, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I feel welcomed back into right rhythm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and right relationship with everything—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oh, let the rain’s gifts not be wasted on me, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but absorbed through and through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and for another day, set things right</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in what I say and what I do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I shake off excess of water from coat and shoes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">leave out the umbrella to dry and cross the threshold </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with lightened step, a sense of purpose, a better plan </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for resuming the projects of the day or the pleasures of
night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rain leaves me gifted with its own freshness, dearness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holiness to pass on to my loved ones and strangers once
more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God bless the rain. Let it sprinkle, let it pour.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I've chosen the following beloved poems to be included in my </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Celebration of Life Booklet:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Layers </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by Stanley Kunitz </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have walked through many lives, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">some of them my own, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I am not who I was, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">though some principle of being </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">abides, from which I struggle </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not to stray. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I look behind, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as I am compelled to look </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before I can gather strength </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to proceed on my journey,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I see the milestones dwindling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">toward the horizon</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the slow fires trailing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the abandoned camp-sites,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over which scavenger angels</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wheel on heavy wings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oh, I have made myself a tribe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of my true affections,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and my tribe is scattered!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How shall the heart be reconciled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to its feast of losses?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a rising wind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the manic dust of my friends,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">those who fell along the way,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bitterly stings my face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet I turn, I turn,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">exulting somewhat,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with my will intact to go</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wherever I need to go,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and every stone on the road</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">precious to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my darkest night,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the moon was covered</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I roamed through wreckage,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a nimbus-clouded voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">directed me:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Live in the layers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not in the litter.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though I lack the art</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to decipher it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no doubt the next chapter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in my book of transformations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is already written.</span></span></div>
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Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-71765539593103344022011-11-05T08:46:00.001-07:002019-04-15T12:57:45.231-07:00Jerusalem a Quarter Century Ago ~ A Celebration of DiversityOn the evening of November 18, 1986, beneath a full white moon, I walked across the city limits threshold into the Holy City of Jerusalem, entering on foot as pilgrims have done for thousands of years. My first act was to take a picture of the moon from the rooftop of the Moriah Hotel. What irony that Jerusalem (from which Salem comes) has been called the City of Peace since ancient times, when, according to our local guide, it's been completely destroyed twice, attacked 53 times and captured and recaptured 44 times in its six thousand year history. Yet, up on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem there is the Church of the Pater Noster on whose walls the Rabbinical Prayer taught by Rabbi Yeshua and commonly known as "The Lord's Prayer" is inscribed on 140 separate illuminated ceramic tiles, each in a different language, including Chaldean, thought to be the language that most closely resembles the sound of the ancient Syro-Aramaic language, which Yeshua/Jesus would have spoken in addition to Greek as the first language of the region. Archeological discoveries and studies have recently revealed that Greek was indeed the primary language of the Galilee at the time when he was growing up and entering manhood there, since it was taken over by the Greeks at the time of Alexander the Great centuries before the Roman Empire existed as a colonizing entity, and the people had three hundred years of Jewish generations living with it and absorbing it, with less resistance than they later felt toward the disrespectful and often abusive Romans.<br />
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By the time of the birth of Jesus, Greek culture had fused with Jewish culture in a successful syncretism, and the Greeks were no longer the enemy Occupiers in the area. The Hellenistic and Hellenizing Jewish writers expressed the deep harmonics of Jewish theology and Greek philosophy most profoundly and prominently in the Gospel According to Saint John, in both the poetic richness of the Last Supper discourse and the Prologue itself, where the Greek concept of Logos and the Jewish concept of <i>Davar </i>combined, but were expressed in the Greek word, <i>Logos,</i> which in most English translations is "the Word," but in some remains in the original Greek.<br />
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I felt as though I could breathe deeply again several days later once we were out of the cosmopolitan traffic and noise of Jerusalem in Judea and inside the Galilee, with its vast expanses of green pastures and Yam Kinneret, the beautiful lake known in English as the Sea of Galilee. It was genuinely awesome to run my fingers through the holy water as it spilled out of the lake into the Jordan River on its way through from its point of origin far to the north, where three rivers from the melted snows and glaciers of Mount Herman in Syria pour into the Upper Galilee panhandle and merge near Dan Banias (named for the Greek god Pan, with the characteristic Jewish pronunciation of the time). It was on the shore of the Sea of Galilee that I celebrated Holy Eucharist on my second pilgrimage in March of the following year, but it was in Jerusalem that I danced on that first occasion in November four months earlier.<br />
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My personal mission in traveling to Israel was to do a Native American style grief Giveaway marking my first year of life without Phil walking beside me, tall and bearded, as he had for the fifteen years since we'd fallen in love while I danced to his guitar music one evening and then he joined me in sacred interpretive dance when someone put on the new recording of <i>Jesus Christ Superstar</i>. The first song Phil played for me was "Here Comes the Sun," which we sang at our rose garden wedding nine months later, with three white volcanoes looking on to the north and east.<br />
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I had vaguely thought to leave some of Phil's ashes somewhere in Jerusalem, but feeling the tension in the air which would a little over a year later erupt into the full-blown Intifada, I decided to head north to the Galilee. There I went out in a small boat onto Yam Kinneret ~the Sea of Galilee~ which is really a large lake~ and committed some of my Beloved's ashes to the sacred waters brought down from the snows of Mt. Hermon in Syria via the Jordan River from its triple source flows in the Israeli panhandle at (Dan) Banias (a mispronunciation of the Greek <i>Panias</i>), the most likely site of the Transfiguration of Christ near the city of Caesarea Philippi. I had saved some of the ashes to entrust to the base of a eucalyptus tree up on the Mount of Beatitudes on the north end of the lake. I picked up a small, alabaster smooth white stone from over the tree's roots to keep as a sacred exchange gift.<br />
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In mid-March of the following year, I was invited to return to Israel with my friends Mary and Martha (I was ordained to the priesthood on the Feast of Saints Mary and Martha and felt perfect harmony in joining their namesakes on pilgrimage to the home of the original sisters in Bethany outside of Jerusalem.) We were joined by a Roman Catholic priest as well. One morning back at the Sea of Galilee with Phil's ashes already blessing the water and hillside, my three companions and I shared Holy Communion on the shore of the lake near a Jewish cemetery where we stopped to honor the grave of Rachel, a young poet who was a founding member of an early kibbutz following the United Nations Declaration of Statehood of the modern nation of Israel in 1948. Finding refuge from the Holocaust, among the survivors were the people who brought ingenious irrigation engineering to the parched land and restored fertile green gardens, bringing bloom and food to the desert. The image below was taken right after our Eucharist as part of the story of our experiences by Martha Sawyer Allen, religion editor for the Minneapolis <i>Star Tribune</i>. It was the Easter Sunday front page lead story in 1987, sensitively written by Martha on our pilgrimage together. She used Intercession Form B from the Eucharistic Rite in the Book of Common Prayer to divide the sections of the story thematically, with beautiful images of the people of the land, Arab and Jew, old ones and children, families and neighbors. In this image after we had prayed for all of them and for the world and our loved ones during our liturgy, I'm throwing crumb remnants of our hotel breakfast bread which served as consecrated communion bread into the holy water near the Jordan River estuary where Jesus had been baptized and on whose shores he walked and prayed alone and with friends. <br />
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To return to the first trip the preceding November, the day after my Giveaway of Phil's ashes in Galilee we returned to the City of Jerusalem. I marveled at standing in a square near the King David Hotel west of the entrance to the walled Old City, counting the many languages I overheard in lively conversation, whether political discourse or cultural comparison: Hebrew, Arabic, French, Polish, Russian, German, English, Japanese, English. And I heard them all while standing still, simply tuning alternately to the air waves within a few yards all around me. <br />
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Later that afternoon I did the unexpected and broke into a spontaneous solitary prayer dance to consecrate my Giveaway grief to God, moving barefoot on stone a thousand years old in a former mosque upper room where the Last Supper of Christ is commemorated, above the site where King David's Tomb is thought to have been on Mt. Zion. As it happened, I was not as alone as I thought, moving freely in the sunlight pouring through a high southern window onto the stones at my feet. A month later one of the other American pilgrims who'd become a dear friend sent me the photograph she'd quietly taken, leaving others in our group to come back and see what I was doing, having lingered behind on my own. She peaked around the corner of the doorway and pointed her camera, for which I remain deeply grateful. Now I have an image of what grief looks like when it transfigures into the movement of Divine Grace and human gratitude.<br />
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We went up to the Mount of Olives after that, and I was again alone for a few moments among the gnarled and dwarfed olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane, just behind the viewpoint image below, a taxi and camel area from where one can look out over the Old and new City of Jerusalem. Both the Jewish and Arab Quarters are on the other side of the sealed Golden Gate on the east side of the wall, where pilgrims and commerce enter and leave together as ever through the same open gate ~ Lion's Gate, called Stephen's Gate by the Christians for our first martyr saint. There also, and both in the Muslim Quarter, are the healing Pool of Bethesda and the Church of St. Ann, mother of Miriam, mother of Yeshua~ Jesus' grandma. Today more than ever, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.<br />
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On the road into the Lower Galilee from Jerusalem lies the city of Nazareth and the Church of the Annunciation. Around the walls are large renditions of the Madonna and Child given by different nations. The Chinese Madonna was enthroned with a crown of pomegranates encircling her head, symbolizing the fertility of the Mother of God. My favorite was the Japanese Madonna, whose sleeves were composed of ten thousand pearls. A Franciscan friar took this picture of her with a visitor, blessed by the Christ Child among lotuses and pearls.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But we need to know You,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we need to be able to call on You, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who are You? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is Your name?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And <i> </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> I Am Becoming <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What I Am.</span> </i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“And remember, Beloved,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>You are </i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To give Me worth and praise </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you must simply be yourself, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">claiming all complexity and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">infinitude, for you are I Am.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“We are relatives,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Essence and essence,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mystery and mystery,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>We are</i>.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>This is My Body— Prayers for Earth,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Prayers from the Heart</b>, iUniverse 2004</span></span><br />
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<span class="a-letter-space"></span><a class="a-link-normal a-text-normal a-color-base" href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R29148669Q0NDF/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1845533801&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books"><span class="a-size-base a-text-bold">Peace in the Holy Land with Justice for All</span></a></div>
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Book Review by
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<a class="noTextDecoration" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A56BV0F7ULNHQ/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">Dr. Alla Bozarth</a>
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<span class="a-color-secondary"> on May 15, 2012</span></span></div>
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<span class="a-size-mini a-color-secondary">Format: Paperback</span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: white;"><a class="a-link-normal" href="http://www.amazon.com/Shalom-Salaam-Peace-Liberation-Theology/dp/1845533801/ref=cm_cr_dp_asin_lnk">Shalom/Salaam/Peace: A Liberation Theology of Hope in Israel/Palestine (Religion and Violence)</a></span></b></span><br />
The
Rev. Dr. Constance Hammond wrote this book from deep personal passion
for the plight of the people who share the land of Israel/Palestine
today. With equal parts compassion and well-documented historical and
theological perspectives, she outlines the story of the land and its
people as one of Biblical proportions in which oppressed people and
people in power bring mutual animosities and transcendent discipline as
they struggle through and try to resolve ancient conflicts in modern
terms. The author indeed creates a theology of hope which includes peace
with justice for Jews, Christians and Muslims in the land where each
tradition is historically and spiritually rooted, and where periods of
peace in the past have been fragile and few.<br />
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Dr. Hammond draws
from the experience of her involvement in the struggles of refugees from
war-torn countries in Africa and Latin America as the backlighting for
her perspective on Israel/Palestine today. She founded the Refugee
Immigration Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts during
the height of the conflict in El Salvador. Though Dr. Hammond's ministry
has been in Oregon and Washington State since 1990, her original work
is carried on by a new generation of workers. She is much beloved by the
hundreds of families who have received the care and determination of
her ministry, both in helping them create new lives and in nurturing the
faith which has kept them alive.<br />
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Her frequent visits to the Holy
Land place her in the pilgrimage tradition of its people. Her voice is
that of a Christian priest of the Episcopal Church in America, while her
vision embraces the Three People of the Book and offers them the basis
of Liberation Theology that emerged from the struggles and faith of
people in Latin America.<br />
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This book opens the heart and clarifies
the mind as the human family ponders the specific and global challenges
of Middle East politics. I recommend it for all who care about the Holy
Land, its history and those who live there now. May they find their
way, each within their distinctive cultures, and together as human
beings trying to share a piece of land that is shockingly small compared
to the millions now claiming turf there. Peace to them all.That is Dr.
Hammond's core message.<br />
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The Rev. Dr. Alla Renée Bozarth, author
of <b>Moving to the Edge of the World</b>, iUniverse 2000 and <b>This is My Body-- Praying for
Earth, Prayers from the Heart</b>, iUniverse 2004.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Each Mortal Life</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Suffer me not to be separated . . .</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Anima Christi77</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyone’s life is a continuation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Gospel, the Torah and the Talmud,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everyone’s life is a psalm, a song</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the Sacred Koran, expressing or not</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a Noble Truth, following or stumbling or falling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the paths and ways of Wisdom and Sense,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a bane or beatitude, and in these realms </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of dark and light mystery, at least sometimes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a strange journey through beauty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>{And unnoticed beauty is still beautiful.}</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is my station of torment,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my Zen farm of peace,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my strengthening studio, my dojo, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my tantra and <i>metta,</i> my yoga</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and heart’s temple, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my love nest, my cloister,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my Mecca, my House of God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this is my exquisite tea room,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my concert hall and cave, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my chaotic workshop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and holy well,<i> </i>my beautiful </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sanctuary, my new<i> </i>and ancient </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fullness of meaning,<i> </i>my altar </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of celebration and thanksgiving~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O God, while I am in Life,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suffer me Not to be Separated</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(by distraction, despondency or willfulness)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from this suffering paradise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Purgatory Papers</b><b> </b>and<b> </b><b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 2011.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Ghost of My Childhood</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Indian mother sitting in dazed silence,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rocking her grief inside her empty arms</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like the children she’d lost in the fire,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her elder daughter standing mute beside her,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">noble in her stillness that had now gone beyond</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tears, words, movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The orange flickering wakened me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at three in the morning, the crackling noise,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even in the darkness of dream sleep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at nine years of life I knew the signs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of overwhelming catastrophe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I woke my father. That is how he entered</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his thirty-third birthday, November 25<sup>th</sup> and already</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Indian family still shivered and froze,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until one of them exploded into a killing heat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The bitter, violent east wind beat their thin shack</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">clear through, breaking the burning bones of its togetherness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breaking them into heart-piercing splinters and spears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through the charred and smoking remains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the next morning, fire fighters found a child’s arm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beneath the window, where, outside, someone had tried</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so hard, so terribly hard, to pull the girl through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the wildly broken glass. Afterwards, after the smoke and wind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">after the family, now half of itself, all female,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">went to a shelter and waited for Welfare to help them— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my father wept. He thought no one saw him</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">confess his frustration, how he felt when he held</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that bloody, cindered, tiny body in his arms,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lifeless, the same age as his daughter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were many times in my life later on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which echoed that night and the next morning,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when I stood before a grief so complete, so cosmic,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so silent, offered hot soup or tea to unseeing hands,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when I stood respectfully mute to the side of eyes blinded</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by too-much of what they had seen, and knew</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that not my kindness, not anything, could get through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to comfort a sorrow I could not imagine,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not even when life had finally brought it also to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Purgatory Papers</b>, copyright 2011. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Freedom and Forgiveness</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Grand Tragedian or the Great Comedian~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Mind within the Universe gives us baffling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">inconsistencies and infinite possibilities— and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from time to time we would like to ask for an apology.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being broken fragments of that Loving Intelligence,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we contradict ourselves and forget who we are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our prayers go sullenly silent to punish the Holy One.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the Holy One takes the punishment, grieving and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">suffering over and also within us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From time to time, Love goes wrong. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We miss the mark, offend or harm, and from time to time</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are harmed by others—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The way to overcome such things</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is to give or receive forgiveness as needed—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its actions are threefold, but only one or two </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may apply in the moment. One must feel remorse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to ask for forgiveness, and therefore most rarely, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forgiveness can free the offender from guilt and grief;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more often, forgiveness can free those offended or harmed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the soul-bending burden of resentment and festering rage;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forgiveness can free a loving bond from alienation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bitterness keeps the broken hearted broken.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness mends shattered selves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and binds torn relationships anew, and deeply.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness liberates the soul from ill-will.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness liberates the grudge-bound mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness relieves the body from sickening stress. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness gives freedom of the spirit from oblivion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness frees the broken heart to live again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness re-minds each person to be more care-full,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to dissuade hurtful words and acts of omission or commission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgiveness liberates lives to fulfill their nobler destinies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and to love again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> <b> Purgatory Papers</b></i>, copyright 2011.<i><b> </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Prayer for Giving and Receiving Forgiveness</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> who trespass against us.</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holy One, Loving and Beloved Source of All that Is,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into Your Wholeness I surrender my brokenness.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You Who contain what is whole and what is broken </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in an inseparable bond of Possibility and Grace, free my spirit </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of uninformed expectations and bless it with true hope </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Your Power to transform evils into blessings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though I know not the way, I surrender my grief to Your Healing Light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I surrender my anger to Your Soothing Balm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I surrender my self-loathing to Your Absolute Love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You Who Live Within those whom I’ve harmed by will or by accident, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or who have passed on their harm to me— I align my desire with Your own, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that they be deeply healed, not only of the injury and hurt I’ve caused them </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or they have caused me, but of all the harms they have endured in their lifetimes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Especially I ask this with all my heart for the person whose hurt sits in my heart </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like a fractured stone, piercing it through. . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By their healing may I be forgiven, and by this forgiveness may I also be healed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though I know not how You will bring well-being about, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I entrust them and myself to Your Infinite Mystery and Hidden Mercy, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the secret and surprising ways by which You cherish us all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and restore us each to Oneness with You.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So that I may be open to Your Workings within me, I ask You to empower me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the ability to release others from the harm they have done me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hold in my own vision the particular burden of blame which I carry . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I breathe out my cleansing breath and with it surrender the vision of it to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Open my inner eye to see those who have hurt me as You see them, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with mature detachment— their own hurts and limitations, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tangled and poisoned routes along which they have sojourned, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the burdens they carry and the battles they endure, in life and in their spirits and minds. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let me bear no further anger against them to compromise their own healing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let me nurture no negative emotions toward them to prevent my own healing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May the contaminants of resentment which I have contributed to the Universe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now be obliterated and All Creation be healed of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Into Your Loving Wisdom and Absolute Acceptance, I release them all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May they be dissolved in the sacred flame that transforms lead into gold. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blessed Art Thou, Intimate Friend, Mother and Father, Sister and Brother, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lover and Source~ Living Essence and Pulse of the Universe. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b> Purgatory Papers</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Creature’s Prayer for True Community</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Mysterious One,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You who longed us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into reality, guide us now</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into its fullest and best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Lonely One,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You who desired us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into our being, bless us now</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with kindly kinship—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Let there be between us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and growing among us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that trusting spirit </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of true cooperation,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> whose creative power springs from</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> mutual good will,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> reciprocal expression</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and convivial intention—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and manifests in that luminous outcome</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that is Your Own dream coming true. Amen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>The Frequency of Light</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> A Prayer Room for All People</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From “Praising Allah at a hospital,” by Nancy Haught </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The Oregonian,</b> September 30, 2006</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> For Dr. Masud Ahmad, faithful in prayer, and </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Christine Wallace, who made the vision a reality.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When you begin {any of the five times daily prescribed}</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to praise the Holy One ~ <i>Allah</i> ~ which means</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Mysterious ~ The Source ~ The Essence ~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it will lead you into a river current which you will not</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be able to stop, until it takes you to its still point,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as in the ancient <i>El/Elohim,</i> for Whom the mouth forms </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its <i>Alleluias </i>beyond all meaning and thought.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The man who walks and has walked the halls of Providence St. Vincent </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Medical Centers for over thirty years now, to listen to the hearts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of men and women~ those committed to his care~ this doctor needs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to offer them in prayer to The One Who Is All. With all these precious, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">strong and fragile hearts in his holy, healing hands, his surgeon’s nerves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unfurl before the Nameless, the Invisible, like wings flying toward heaven </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be blessed, to be guided, to be true to the Spirit that leads them </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the millions of rivers that flow out and return in to the core.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But where? In a broom closet? A locked medicine room?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A porch outside an Emergency Exit door?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or a tiny patient interview room <i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“deep in the heart of the giant hospital”?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And where will the compass be on such dark walls</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to show him the direction of Mecca?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And how will he spread out his prayer rug to kneel </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in such a small space, or touch his forehead to the floor,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then stand again to pray so softly but yet aloud,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for passing angels to hear and stop to add their blessing energies?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The pastoral care minister came to notice the doctor’s dilemma </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in finding a quiet place to pray, and she was able to arrange for a room near </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Roman Catholic hospital Chapel to become the Muslim Prayer Room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is said that Moses advised Mohammed to petition for mercy when</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Allah/Elohim </i>decreed that the Surrendered Soul should pray fifty times a day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Your followers will not be able to bear it,” the Prophet told Mohammed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Holy One cut the number in half, but Moses insisted that, too, was too much, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and a second and finally third appeal concluded with these times</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the day for a person to pray: Upon arising, When the sun is overhead,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At mid-afternoon, At sunset, and Upon retiring.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For whatever shift the Muslim worshipper might be on duty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the Roman Catholic hospital, whose doors are open to serve all people,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this room, filled with natural light from high windows, will also be open. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People receiving care and their families will find welcome here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At night, witnessing stars will burn as prayer candles through the window glass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two women artists pray as they paint the wall which indicates</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the direction of Mecca~ an exquisite sacred abstraction</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in intricate curves of green~ the color of Islam, the color of Peace~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with accents of burgundy and gold~ an elaborate geometric design</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that rises from a straight line to a diamond form crowned by an arch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her head covered in a white scarf, the brush at home and steady in her hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tasneem Rahman says that this Center is a holy place for her, filled with joys</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and one great sorrow. She bore three children here, and her son Mustafa died</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here as well, from injuries following an automobile accident.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I prayed in the rooms where my children were delivered,” she reflects,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a safe enclosure where she could feel one with God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now the artist completes such a place for herself and for others,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hoping that people of other religions who might discover this room</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will recognize symbols of their own traditions within the sacred design,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and find peace. As a blessing she says with a looped stroke of her brush,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“We wanted to make it easier for people of all faiths.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blessed indeed are those who will come, and every prayer from among them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>My Passion for Art</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>God Speaks My Language</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God speaks the vernacular.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anybody’s, any time, anywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Speaks the vernacular of any mood I’m in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Say, when I want to ask my computer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for a blank piece of paper, what do I ask for—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give me a blank piece of space?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Along some comes, and says, “Go ahead, Honey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Say what you mean. God speaks computer.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Imagine that. God can read, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And in computer<i>eeze.</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(See, now, the computer, bless its rigid</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">little heart, doesn’t like that, tried to correct me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but God knows what I mean and says) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Leave it be, Child. Get on with it, now.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So I just tell Her, Mama, I sure am glad</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you talk my language and know stuff</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without words or even with wrong words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just wanted to say, Thanks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the mood I’m in now, and it turns out to be </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">some kind of subjunctive mood. They all are. T e n t a t i v e. <i>Provisional.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It could change like <i>that</i> and turn medieval English, or Chinese, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or not so friendly, even get cold and mad and sulky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, That’s all right. But you gotta know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everything’s okey dokey with the Divine. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God don’t mind attitude. That means,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can give it to Her when I’m huffy stupid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She just laughs. I like that! Lets me be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God don’t even mind atheists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hell, you and I exist, whether anyone believe it or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, why not? That’s just the way She Is. Big. Really,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">really<b><i> Big. </i></b>Bigger than everything put together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bigger than your hopes and dreams and memories</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and everything you can imagine combined.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like that. I like somethin’ That Big.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bigger than the ocean and bigger than the whole sky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bigger than forever. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Somethin’ That Big that loves me. It loves you, too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So we better find a way to love each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth </i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b> 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps even the Creator struggled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not to let success be a ruin to the solitary visionary artist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps that is why there is so much apparent failure </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">most of the time before first sight of success. Even after.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A writer whose work was rejected 129 times,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then after decades of nothing became a best seller,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">said this: <i>Who knew, through all those years when I thought</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I was stuck in failure, deteriorating in addictions, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that I was really creating a meaningful life?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alice Sebold wrote a novel, <i>The Lovely Bones,</i> about the fourteen year old</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her own rape twenty years earlier there, and in creating the work, she overcame</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">despair and the long, reactive deformation of her psyche, from which even</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">identifying the rapist and seeing him receive the maximum sentence at his trial</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had not saved her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the book came out and was instantly praised as triumphantly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">compelling, the story told in the murdered girl’s own voice from heaven,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she said, “It's very weird to succeed at 39 years old and realize that</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building<span style="color: black;"> the life that you wanted.”</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who can know when immersed in it what one is really doing?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pass through open doors and into a world that has had the time it needed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to welcome them back and make them its president and virtual savior.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Look at Mandela in exhausted South Africa, bringing equality and new life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and respect to the people, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, economist </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and grandmother, elected president of ravaged, woman-hating Liberia,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cleaning out corruption, ending the common practice of gang rape </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on women and children as young as three month old baby girls, and passing a law </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">making rape punishable, with no exceptions, by life in prison. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It still can be a world where innocent captives survive their tortures </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and live to be freed to free others, and those who are truly guilty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are punished and permanently put out of business. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other than failure, the way to cope with success</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is to shift your focus, as the Creator did in the common tale,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">attending to a different aspect of creation each day,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to keep it all moving toward its own eventual wholeness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then, to leave sufficient imperfection in the specifics</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the design that it could go on shaping itself according to its internal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">options and evolving nature, the Creator also changing in creative interaction~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and thereby Creation would become Co-Creator, each partaking in both, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and relieving the other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The final thing in the familiar story that is valuable to note</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is that when Her main work was done, the Creator rested.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My guess is that She slept as well, between one day of creation </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the next, even before Her big rest at the end. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Which is why She invented the good idea of sleep </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for creative and creating creatures, a category which includes you and me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And also, it can be safely assumed that in-between active phases </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of work and play and rest (which allows for deeper activity), </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Creator played with Her Creative Creation, and loved it all, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one way or another, in each of its phases and particulars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And since the story is told in mythic time, it is still going on,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all of that wonderful work, rest, play and love . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still going on in all of our lives, a rhythm that happens naturally</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when we play along, when we let ourselves be what we be,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and love us because and anyway, and every eighth day or so,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">start creating our world all over again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Purgatory Papers</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> God’s Knees </b><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes I feel like a little kid</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lost in the department store or circus, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">desperately trying to find God’s knees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All I can see is a confusing kaleidoscope</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of hodgepodge colors, people’s pant legs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or skirt hems and shoes and bare skin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They all look like they’re lost, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I feel a tug on my arm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my desperation I forgot that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Someone was holding my hand. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I look up and see my little hand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tucked into a large and well-worn hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a rough worker’s hand, competent</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and strong, but gentle too, and smooth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where it holds onto mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I follow that big hand up a huge, muscular arm,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the way to its shoulders, and there I see this</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">amazing face, old and young at the same time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rough and smooth and pink and brown with all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the rainbow dancing around from the light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that comes out of nowhere. I don’t know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if it’s a grandmother or grandfather face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it’s looking at me and it smiles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It smiles like it knows all it needs to know, and it knows me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through and through. And one of its eyes winks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at me and then the smile opens to a grin,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the Face lifts up to move ahead and the Hand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">squeezes mine, and we’re walking together,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">side by side, and I don’t feel so small anymore,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even against the biggest body I’ve ever seen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We’re walking together, and somehow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the One holding my hand lets me know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that even though I’m scared and don’t know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where I am or where we’re going, and even</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if we get hurt somehow, we’re okay, and we’ll be okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I’m not just being cared for and loved— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I ~tiny, lost me~ am being respected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b> and <b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The Maze</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a field of maize, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a man made a maze~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let the crop grow </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tall as a giraffe, then</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mowed and cut and trimmed it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the shape of confusion,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and gave it to Great Mystery</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and said, This is life, isn’t it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And Great Mystery said,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You said it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Question mark and all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You know, said Mystery,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it’s what you’ve made so far</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of what I gave you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to begin with.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s not done yet, either.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other folks are coming along</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through this thing behind </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and ahead of you, some of them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not human, some of them invisible,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and everybody that’s coming through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">does a little adding and subtracting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and multiplying and dividing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and some even make bridges and segues to new mazes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a contribution!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and get on through it. First thing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they decide out loud is, I better call out and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">see with my ears if anyone else is here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and ask them to help me figure out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where I am, Yes, just where in the world</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am. Pretty soon everybody is talking</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at once and the shape of confusion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">becomes downright audible. By and by,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">though, they start to figure out the best ways</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to communicate and from that, the best ways</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to go. It takes time. It takes everyone time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it’s better than boredom. This maze</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is better than being bored somewhere else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So folks are willing. Folks go through it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They find it is an amazing thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They call out to each other, Where are you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That far? or Don’t worry, turn left now and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">three steps forward. Stand still and I’ll find you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And they do find each other. They hold hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They synchronize their paces, separate, explore, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">find each other some more. They remind each other to rest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They help each other when a stick pokes someone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or someone gets sick or someone goes crazy and shoots someone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or does something else really stupid, instead of moving along and discovering </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">things all around that appear on their own, and prove to be amazing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And by and by, they begin to notice that Everyone and Everything is <i>a-mazing. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They say, <i>You</i> are amazing! They stop in their tracks and stand there and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">take a big breath, and with a hand over their heart they say,<i> I </i>am amazing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">surprises for you throughout your life,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and when Luminous Presence appears,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will feel the great joy of gratitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more joy than sorrow,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to turn pain into blessing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">among prickles and thorns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that you will find the beauty within you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to respond to the beauty outside you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how fully love embraces you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pray that you will live and move and be in Grace,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and that this Grace will give you the power to give,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the freedom to receive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to celebrate the Mysteries, and to be happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>The Frequency of Light</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In response to the comment and question posted with this piece, "</span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235688488348:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235688488348:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235688488348:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">No
other religion is Biblically the 'right' one. So how is it that
Christian churches are blending with Jews and Muslims who are not right
with God?</span></span></span>"<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:0"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0"> Because
not all Christians feel that God turns away those who do not follow
strict doctrines of our own or any religion. We believe that holiness
depends on the goodness of a person's heart and mind, and above all,
behavior of loving kindness toward ot</span></span><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".ha.1:3:1:$comment10202235285678278_10202235762850207:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">hers.
We regard the example of Jesus as teaching this attitude of
non-judgementalism and acceptance of all who are in need of soul
friends. He rebuked his disciples for pushing away those in need who
were not one of their own group, and he treated outsiders the same as he
treated Jews, such as the Syro-Phoenician woman who did not share the
Jewish faith of Rabbi Yeshua. Her story is found in Mark 7:25-30 and is
paralleled in Matthew 15:21-28. Likewise, the woman of Samaria (the
woman at the well) was an outsider, yet Jesus saw into her heart and
treated her honestly yet gently. She is actually considered the first
evangelist for being sent by Jesus to tell others the "good news" of
their conversation at the well. Whenever he saw someone ill or in
trouble, he helped, without asking for their religious agreement with
the Jewish laws. He accepted everyone and saw them with a loving and
non-judging heart. Only hypocrites (such as the Pharisees) or those who
wanted him to stop associating with "outsiders" received his rebuke.
This example leads me to believe that Jesus taught about the God of open
arms who took all beings into the warmth of the Divine Embrace, who
recognized the suffering of all creatures and responded to all with
unconditional compassion. Common belief in such a loving Creator allows
people of different faiths to treat each other with respect and good
will. Only those who violate the laws of loving kindness, goodwill,
justice and mercy receive condemnation, not only from Jesus in his time,
but from all people who practice the code of human decency and
goodwill, and who live out their faith with loving kindness, justice,
mercy and integrity. That is the important factor that allows Jews,
Christians, Muslims and others who share these values to come together
now to condemn hatred and violence practiced by whoever commits crimes
and sins against humanity and creation, not only as guilty of terrible
crimes, but guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege by committing atrocities
against any part of Beloved Creation ~ in the very name of the Holy One,
as all faiths regard our Loving Creator. + + +</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some years later Anne began a new series called <i>Al-Andalus: Pardes/Paradise,</i>
in celebration of the Golden Era centering in Cordoba, Spain, the
seven hundred years of peaceful coexistence and mutual respect,
friendship and enrichment among artists, scholars, government and
religious leaders of all three sister traditions: Jewish, Christian and
Muslim. She painted beautiful images of the Tree of Life representing
our origins in Paradise~ one an olive tree and one a pomegranate tree,
the masculine and feminine colors of each symbolizing our human
ancestors in the garden.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Pomegranate Tree of Life</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Paradise Lies at the Feet of the Mothers </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I, Miriam, took my tambourine</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of the land of slavery</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ready to dance on the long, long journey,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dance at every victory, beginning with</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">surviving the Passover, then the strange </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">our feet as we ran, safely passing over the narrow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">strip onto the Sinai Peninsula, all the way out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the land of longing toward the storied memory of Home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I danced to the song that spilled out of me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">loud up to Heaven, rejoicing on hopeful feet,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rejoicing with arms flying through warm air like wings,<br />
and water followed me all the way through <br />
the great desert, to keep the people alive and faithful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s been five hundred years, after all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A long time gone, but our stories keep it alive</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our hearts. I wonder if I’ll live to see it from </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the mountains across River Jordan. I wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if I’ll be an old woman, and dance down</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the side of Mt. Nebo with arms wide open,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heart fluttering strong, leading the way </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with cymbals and songs into the Promised Land.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also shown on the "Philadelphia Ordinations" page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To view all of Anne Shams' beautiful interfaith contributions of art,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the greatest transforming agent of human consciousness</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to which religious, philosophical and scientific traditions refer,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">visit her website:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<a href="http://www.anneshamsart.info/AnneShamsArt/Welcome.html">www.anneshamsart.info/AnneShamsArt/Welcome.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Except for Anne Shams' art and pictures of Alla, all pictures are by Alla </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Beginning with the poem, <i>Gynergy</i></span></span></span></h1>
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Tribute Poem for Dr. Wangari Maathai </span></span></span></h3>
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Celebration of Dr. Aung San Suu Kyi</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Poem, <i>Circle of Fire </i></span></span></span></h3>
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Poems, <i>The Black Madonna</i></span></span></span></h3>
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and <i>Pear Wood </i></span></span></span></h3>
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with Images from Chartres Cathedral</span></span></span></h3>
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for Three African American Women Priests</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Oslo, Norway~ 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Conferred Upon </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Leymah Gbowee and </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>In
2014, Pakistani Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win
the Nobel Prize in any category. At 17 she was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for her activism for education in her country of Pakistan. At 11
and 12 she kept a blog describing the lives of girls in her country and
declaring herself committed to demanding equal opportunity for girls to
receive a complete education. She managed to send her blog to the BBC in
England, which published it to alert the world to her cause. At 15,
while getting on her school bus she was shot in the head by a man
representing the Taliban. </b></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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where she underwent surgery and rehabilitation. She survived to redouble
her dedication to the cause. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to conduct the </i><i>New York</i><i> Philharmonic in 1938. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>four decades later, three years following my participation </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been asleep for ten years of my life,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but today am waking, waking~~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aware of the seahorse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">alone in his quiet lair,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the male mother who gives birth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">laboriously in salt water, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aware of the male nanny grebe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who cares for the kids</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while mother bird tests</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her wings against the sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for food to feed their young~~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aware also of the countless gifts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of female energy that would surely</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">explode the world if they were known,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and go wasted, as if to spare the planet,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but instead, the plant dies with them~~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aware of the beauty of old women’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hands on young women’s shoulders </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who take to the fluid process of science, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">clay, bronze, steel, paint or poetry, or pound out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their magic music on primitive drums, on strings, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through horns, sending their lusty wail— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To Life! To Life!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aware of these forces I wake</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of my middle years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to look into the infinite</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eyes of my sisters, daughters,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mothers, Grand-and-Godmothers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">caught in their endless circle of energy,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">created anew in their nurture, begin to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the vast deep roots of my woman-nature </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reaching around Earth and held in their</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">circular fire with great white waters</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">running under~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And wonder, for wonder,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how I shall ever sleep again—</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Love’s Prism</b>, Sheed and Ward 1987; <b>Womanpriest: </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Personal Odyssey</b>, revised edition 1988, Luramedia </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Wisdom House; <b>Water Women</b>, audiocassette, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wisdom House 1990 and <b>Stars in Your Bones</b>, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bozarth, Barkley and Hawthorne, North St. Press of St. Cloud 1990</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below the video links following Wangari Maathai's tribute poem</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will find "Circle of Fire" for the nine million women killed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for their gifts in the past millennium, and a paean to the "Black</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Madonna" archetype, the Divine Feminine buried alive, <i>but </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ALIVE,</i> underground, and still accessible on the surface as well,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">emerging more and more. . . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 1901-2014</b></span></span></div>
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“One woman can change
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Many women can change
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first woman to become a Nobel Peace
Laureate was Baroness Bertha von Suttner, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay Down Your Arms </i>and honorary president of the Permanent
International Peace Bureau in Bern,
Switzerland.
She was Alfred Nobel’s friend and as a great founding peace activist, his
inspiration for establishing the Peace Prize as chief among the categories. He
fully expected the terms of his will establishing the tradition to confer the
first Nobel Peace Prize upon her, but masculine point of view among the
committee members omitted the last phrase of Nobel’s appointment criteria,
which stated that winners were not to be limited to Swedes but should be chosen
from among all peoples, both men and women. “All peoples” was interpreted by
point of view to mean all men, and the last clause was dropped from
consciousness in the earliest choices and apparently thereafter until recent
times. Bertha von Suttner, referred to as their commander-in-chief by other
peace activists who nominated her numerous times, did not received the prize,
first granted in 1901, until 1905. Marie Curie became the first woman to
receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to become a double laureate, winning
in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. The highest prize, however,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was withheld for four years until Baroness
von Suttner was at last acknowledged, fulfilling Albert Nobel’s implicit intention.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great founder of
the settlement house movement, Jane Addams, was the second Peace Prize
recipient in 1931 in recognition of her peace activism during World War I with
the International Congress of Women, and for helping to found the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom. She shared the Peace Prize with
Nicholas Murray Butler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifteen years
later in 1946, Jane Addams’ friend and colleague, Emily Greene Balch, who had
been fired by Wellesley
College from her 20 year
long position as professor of economics because of her World War I peace
activism, was awarded the Peace Prize for her valiant efforts and steadfast
integrity of conscience. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was by no
means an ideologue, for her pacifism did not prevent her from supporting World
War II, which may have been a strong factor in her receiving the prize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a thirty year
lapse on the part of the Nobel Committee in the appointment of women among the
Peace Laureates, in 1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan shared the Prize
for founding the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, in which Roman Catholics and
Protestants joined in the effort to bring social justice to all Irish people
peacefully, by protesting violence on both sides and advocating for the power
of peaceful witness.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following them in
1979 was Macedonian born Mother Teresa, minister of mercy and peace to the
dying and suffering poor of India. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1982, Alva Myrdal,
a Swedish economist and activist for human rights, ambassador to India and first
woman to become a United Nations department head, shared the prize with another
disarmament advocate and activist, Alfonso García Robles of Mexico, after the
United Nations Disarmament Committee had failed in its own disarmament mission.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1991 the Nobel
Peace Prize was conferred upon Aung San Suu Kyi, the graceful and determined
leader of democracy and human rights in Myanmar (Burma), while under house arrest
for over two decades.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1992 the Peace
Laureate was Rigoberto Menchú Tum of Guatemala, for her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>work of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>cultural and ethnic reconciliation based on respect for the rights of
indigenous peoples.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1997, Jody
Williams became the 10<sup>th</sup> woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,
in recognition of her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2003, Shirin
Ebadi was the first person from Iran
and the first Muslim woman to become a Nobel Peace Laureate in recognition of
being Iran’s
chief leader for human rights and a major voice for women and children in the
Muslim world.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2004, Kenyan
Wangari Maathai, ecofeminist, teacher and founder of the world-wide Green Belt
Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> [See tribute poem below.]</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2011, Tawakkol Karman, powerful activist for
democracy and women’s rights in Yemen, accompanied by Leymah Gbowee and
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ardent and brilliant Liberian reform leaders
for Rule of Law against all violations of human rights, particularly those of
women and children.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
2014, Pakistani Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win the
Nobel Prize in any category. At 17 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
her activism for education in her country of Pakistan. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At 11 and 12 she kept a blog describing the
lives of girls in her country and declaring herself committed to demanding
equal opportunity for girls to receive a complete education. She managed to
send her blog to the BBC in England, which published it to alert the world to
her cause. At 15, while getting on her school bus she was shot in the head by a
man representing the Taliban. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">She nearly died, but was flown to England where she underwent surgery and
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">She survived to redouble her dedication to the cause.</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b>Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2004</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> “In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.” </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unbowed toward men</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she bows only to Earth, our Mother.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She speaks truth to men with brutality in their brains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they beat her and imprison her, but while her body heals</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her mind grows stronger and her voice grows freer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She continues to speak.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She speaks for our Mother in a clear mother’s voice:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harm not the Earth nor Her children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The men with brutality in their brains beat her again when she demands </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that they abandon their insane plan to tear up a garden in the city </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and replace it with another phallic skyscraper. She wins that one. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Victory after victory, Earth wins through her persistent labor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">She shows how poverty and the degradation</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">of Mother Earth and the oppression of women</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">and children are one crime against God the Creator.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She dreams of trees and plants them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it is not enough. She dreams of poor women</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">throughout the land receiving livelihood and planting trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She calls the women into alliance— The Green Belt Movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She gives them momentum and they do not stop moving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she pays a small stipend to poor women to plant trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One by one, the forests return to her homeland of Kenya. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She remembers the spirits of rivers and streams she loved as a child.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She remembers how Mother Earth used to be before the greedy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">men with brutality in their brains assaulted Her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When personal and professional attacks come, she runs for Parliament</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as candidate for the National Rainbow Coalition and wins, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">defeating the ruling party.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is appointed Assistant Minister in the Ministry for Environment </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Natural Resources. She founds the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to allow candidates to run on a conservation platform as modeled by </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Green Belt Movement. It becomes a member of the Federation </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of Green Parties of Africa and of the Global Greens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the people of France award her the Legion of Honor in thanks,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the men with brutality in their brains try to beat her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the world gives her the Nobel Peace Prize for her work</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to make peace between humanity and Earth— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the foaming-mouth men with brutality in their brains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">try to beat her with words and false accusations, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but her Truth wins out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She has left us now, but her Earthmother’s voice rings loud and clear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her true-speaking voice rings loud and clear. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She can be beaten no more, and her spirit still speaks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For all we who have heard and been blessed by the truth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are her voices now. Inspiring each other, we sisters and brothers </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who hear and speak out for the future give strength and hope</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to our children, who will also speak out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All you who hear today, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">make it so for tomorrow—</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"A Voice for Trees" and the Green Belt Movement:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Planting the Future," September 29, 2011 and "Nature's Coded Wisdom"</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 30, 2009</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ~Krista Tippett's audio interviews with Wangari Maathai </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on National Public Radio, to hear or read~ </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. Aung San Suu Kyi, the beloved leader of the movement for democracy in
Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), was freed at last on November 13,
2010. As General came a symbol of triumph over adversity when her house arrest for
most of the past two decades ended and she was finally free to travel in
her own country and abroad. She traveled her country preparing for
orderly democratic elections in 2012, whereupon the people elected her to be a member of Parliament with expectations of making her their
president within a few years. Her freedom made it possible for her to
undertake an arduous journey to Geneva, Switzerland, then Oslo, Norway,
where she could at last accept the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in
1991 on June 16, 2012 in person, followed by a return to
England where she had completed her academic studies and earned her master's
and doctoral degrees in the 70s and 80s, after a visit to Dublin where
she received the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
from the humanitarian singer, Bono.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi attends the “Electric Burma”
concert today in Dublin to receive Amnesty International’s Ambassador of
Conscience award from U2 singer Bono, it will be a moment of
celebration and a chance to reflect on the transformation of Burma from a
brutal military dictatorship to a country facing into a democratic
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Suu Kyi last visited Europe in 1988, Charles Haughey
was Taoiseach [Prime Minister, pronounced "teeshox" or "teeshaw"], the BerlinWall stood, and the Internet was science fiction. That same year, the military junta, which had seized power in
the former British colony in 1962, ordered a crackdown on democracy
activists and killed about 3,000 student protesters. In the intervening
24 years, Suu Kyi has spent 15 years under house arrest in Rangoon, and
even during her periods of freedom, never dared leave as she knew the generals would not let her return. Her dignity and defiance made
her a symbol of hope for democrats all over the world. It is right she
should enjoy her moment of recognition in Europe and receive in person the Nobel Peace Prize awarded her in 1991.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rate of change in
Burma since November 2010 has been rapid. President Thein Sein, a former
general, has transferred power from the army to civilian rule, freed
political prisoners, relaxed censorship, and allowed Suu Kyi’s National
League of Democracy to function. Where previously Suu Kyi suffered, now
she triumphs. She received US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at her
house in Rangoon, as a free woman. She became a member of parliament two
months ago after a landslide by-election win for the NLD.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These
achievements aside, Suu Kyi’s political struggle is only beginning. In
the next few months she will have to ensure reform stays on track. In
Burma, most commentators believe the changes are real but warn that
Thein Sein has stuck his neck out very far. It is vitally important that
international sanctions introduced over the past few decades in
response to human rights abuses and broader oppression, such as the
violent crackdown on democracy in 2007, begin to be removed.</span></span></div>
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sanctions are not lifted and Burma does not see real economic
development as a result, Thein Sein will come under huge pressure from
military hardliners to stand aside and let the junta resume control.
There are rumblings of unease from the generals over how to deal with
regional conflicts in Burma’s multi-ethnic constellation. . . . Ethnic minorities want more autonomy within a
federal structure, along the lines of a plan drafted by Suu Kyi’s father
General Aung San, in 1947. The chances of the generals tolerating that
are slim. . . . When the roars of the crowd from her first European tour
recede, her task at home will be back to ensuring reform continues and
Burma does not slide into</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In contrast with her 64th birthday which she spent in jail, sharing
biryani rice and chocolate cake with her guards after being arrested and
sentenced to prison and hard labor (later commuted to 18 more months of
house arrest) because she had given shelter to an exhausted swimmer who
came to her home by water to warn her that she was in danger~ on her
67th birthday, June 19, 2012, Suu Kyi met with the Dalai Lama in
person in London. The spiritual leader of the people of Tibet in Exile
since fleeing his country in 1959, he has great spiritual kinship with
her. Decades ago while she was earning her advanced academic degrees in Oxford and London she met
her husband Michael Aris, who along with his twin brother Anthony was a
young scholar of Buddhist cultural studies. Michael and Anthony were
born in Havana
where their mother was the daughter of the Canadian ambassador to Cuba
and their English father was an officer with the British Council. They
married in England in 1971 and had two sons. After a year in Bhutan,
they returned to North Oxford to raise their sons there. Michael
developed his academic career specializing in the cultures of Bhutan,
Tibet and other Buddhist Himalayan countries. In 1988, Suu Kyi returned to
Burma to be with her ailing mother, Khim Kyi, the former ambassador to
India and Nepal. At that time, she became aware of the dire situation in
her country and stayed on to work and witness for democracy. She was
elected Chairperson and General Secretary for the National League for
Democracy in 1988 and ran for Parliament still holding and representing
that office when she was elected as full member in 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She picked up the torch of freedom from her father, Aung San, who was
assassinated shortly after this family portrait was taken when Suu Kyi
was a toddler in 1947~ for his own efforts to create a democratic
government. She is shown in white with her brothers Aung San Lin and
Aung San Oo and their mother Khim Kyi, who was also politically involved
and deeply committed to the cause. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aung San Suu Kyi's family, Alexander, Kim and Michael Aris, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize </span></span></div>
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In 1991, Michael and their two sons Alexander and Kim accepted the Nobel
Peace Prize in behalf of Suu Kyi. Her elder son Alexander Aris delivered the acceptance speech (photo above). Her husband was allowed to visit her
only five times after she had been placed under house arrest. Their last
visit was at Christmas, 1995. Two years later he was diagnosed with
terminal prostate cancer. Though both UN Secretary General Kofi Anan and
Pope John Paul II petitioned the Burmese government to allow Michael to
come to be with his wife, he was denied. Michael Aris died of cancer on
his 53rd birthday, March 27, 1999, while his wife grieved in internal
exile, unable to be with him in his last hours.<br />
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June 20, 2012, Dr. Suu Kyi, finally free and reunited with their sons,
returned to the country where she and Michael were both young scholars,
fell in love and married, to receive an honorary doctorate in civil law
from Oxford University of London in addition to her earned doctorate in
1985 from the University of London School of Asian [Oriental] and
African Studies. The honorary degree in acknowledgment of her heroic
self-sacrifice for democracy in her country was conferred on her in 1993
when she was unable to accept it in person, though temporarily not
under house arrest, for fear of not being allowed back into her country.
In her acceptance speech she said that she was able to endure 15 years
of house arrest because of what she had learned at the university.<br />
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On June 21, 2012, she became the first foreign woman to address both
Houses of Parliament jointly in London. Queen Elizabeth II is the only
other woman to have done so. The only other foreigners to have this
privilege are United States of America President Barack Obama, former
President of South Africa (after his own internal exile) Nelson Mandela,
and Pope Benedict XVI. Suu Kyi appealed to Great Britain, the former
foreign empirical power over Myanmar, to help the country achieve
complete democracy. Even as she spoke, dozens of people had been killed
during three weeks of
fighting between Muslims and Buddhists in the far western region of
Myanmar. She pointed out that the work had only just begun and Myanmar
needed the continuing support of the Western World and Great Britain in
particular to see it through.<br />
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<i>The Washington Post </i> June 22, 2012<br />
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Suu Kyi had been to 10 Downing Street to meet with Prime Minister
Cameron, who had visited Myanmar, and later she was a guest of Prince
Charles, heir to the throne, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at their
home in Clarence House, where she planted a tree in their garden. (And
Dr. Wangari Maathai smiled from Heaven!)<br />
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Aung San Suu Kyi stands for gentle strength winning over bullying,
reason winning over violence, faith winning over giving up~ and proves
the power of perseverance to achieve a precious goal. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After so many years in isolation in her modest home, deprived of the
joys of family life with her beloved husband and sons, Suu Kyi said that
she began to feel unreal, but when she received the Nobel Peace Prize
in recognition of her sacrifice in devotion to the cause of democracy
for her people, she felt again actively connected with the whole human
family:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Often during my days of house arrest, it felt as
though I were no longer a part of the real world. There was the house
which was my
world. There was the world of others who also were not free but who were
together in prison as a community. And there was the world of the free.
Each one was a different planet pursuing its own separate course in an
indifferent universe. What the Nobel Peace Prize did was
to draw me once again into the world of other human beings, outside the
isolated area in which I lived, to restore a sense of reality to me. . .
. And what was more important, the Nobel Prize had drawn the attention
of the world to the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma.
We were not going to be forgotten," she said during her 40-minute
oration. CBS/AP Oslo</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She said that finally being able to accept the acknowledgement in person
opened up a door in her heart.
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; color: #333333;">The people of Myanmar often address Dr. Aung San Suu Kyi by the word, “Daw,” used as a term of profound affection, respect and reverence for a woman of wisdom. In 2017, however, she has drawn harsh criticism for not speaking out against government and Buddhist persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority group. This seems so contrary to her ethos that I can only believe that she is under constraints imposed on her by undisclosed facts which will eventually be revealed. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't hold Aung San Suu Kyi responsible for this horror. She is not the president of Myanmar. She has no real political say in government. Any attempt on her part to interfere would be ineffective, as she knows from past experience. Those who want he</span></span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">r to rescind her Peace Prize assume that she has the power to stop the atrocities and is willfully not using it. She does not have the power. And she does not publicly say what her feelings are about it. The world has taken her silence as its license to condemn her, which I believe is unjust, a failure to take into account the totalitarian nature of male dominated society in Asia, where people who want to stay alive are prudent in disclosing, and mostly not disclosing, their criticism of government. Aung San Suu Kyi spoke out and criticized the government that had killed her father, and for her cry for justice she was arrested and deprived of freedom for 15 years. I think that she is now being sensitive to her limits, relying on the condemnation of the world to cry for justice in Myanmar as being more effective than anything else would be.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Receiving the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize on June 12, 2012 from </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Deputy Chair of the Nobel Committee</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUPfkNXpZvQ">www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUPfkNXpZvQ</a> </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Gentle
power such as these great leaders practice encourages women </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and members of minority groups </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everywhere
to persevere in achieving their own freedom and fulfillment, discovering
and developing their abilities and interests and practicing ways in
which they can contribute to the greater good of others. Sometimes it's
hard not to go under, give up, be buried alive or destroy oneself
because one is overwhelmed with desperation and despair. But there is
an alternative, and that alternative is to tell the truth about the
lives of the oppressed, the needs of human beings and other beings who
suffer because of human evil, and to overcome that evil by bearing
witness and proving that creativity is stronger than the insatiable
greed for power and possession that unconscious people practice in
futile effort to ease their insecurities and self-contempt. Let us give
thanks and bless all those who transcend their circumstances and leave
the world their positivity and creativity, no matter what.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><b>For All the Women Who Did Not
Throw Themselves Under the Train</b></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">With gratitude to Phiamma Elias,
creator of the film, <b>Homeskillet,</b></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><b> </b>and all the actors, composers,
singers, cinematographers </span>and volunteers who collaborated to make the film.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Too many
books have been written by men about women who</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">killed
themselves one way or another~ </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Tolstoy’s Anna, who took</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span>
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">a dive </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">onto the train tracks as dirty steam and shrieking whistles</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">sent up
her message to the world.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">In the
end, she’d given too much for too little wherever she’d tried</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to make
her life a gift and it was received with presumption or contempt,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as merely
a disposable function.<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">This
prevented her from being alive with the one person who loved her</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">without masks
or complications~ her young child.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Then
there was bored Madame Bovary, whom Flaubert poisoned</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">with
gruesomely slow hemorrhagic arsenic after years of bad choices</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">for
something, anything that would make her feel alive.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Sylvia
Plath lived out her death at the oven</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">while her
sick children slept like drugged angels.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Kate
Chopin wrote her own account of a woman’s desperation</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and
blank, mute despair, and she wrote of strength along the bayou</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">trails
of survival. Tony Morrison channels haunted spirits from slavery,</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and her
witness is a victory that is theirs and ours, as we increase our ability</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to hear
and receive, and to say No More, not only with words, but tremendous</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">acts of
faith in our own and each other’s risky actions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Louise
Erdich demands love in the midst of struggle, and shows how</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">it’s
done, loss, grief and all. <i>Love Medicine</i>
begins with a woman named June</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">freezing to death on her way to the reservation,
then the story completes</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">her intended journey and reveals reservation life, where
people find strength</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">drawn from love of the land, enduring through poverty,
addiction,</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">the full spectrum of human desperation, with hope and humor</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">shimmering in the dark.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><i> </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><i>The Beet Queen</i> moves out into the heart of a
German plains white town</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">where
loss, abandonment and familial dissolution backdropped by a coming </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">second world
war affect people across ethnic borders, revealing the power</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">of
forgiveness to heal, to restore lost dignity and mend the broken. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Anneliese
Frank, Edith Stein (Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and Etty
(Esther) Hellisum went down among the six million Jews</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">in the Holocaust,
leaving their gifts to history, our gifts now, the wisdom, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">courage and power of
testimony. Whether a gifted ordinary girl of 15,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dreaming
of love or helping her mother with Shabbat celebrations<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">as
quietly</span> as possible in their secret attic hiding place~ or a Jewish <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">philosopher</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">/contemplative Carmelite nun whose doctoral dissertation</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">was
called, “The Problem of Empathy,” and who was once denied </span> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">a
professorship because of being Jewish~ or a young woman on the move</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">and
writing her heart out to keep revising the story as war events worsened~</span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">they
did not go down willingly. All of them were murdered in Auschwitz. </span><br />
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">They
understood the monumental impact of each small, individual life</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">in the
midst of colossal shared tragedy. Their gifts are among our tools</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">of
transformation as we relentlessly strive to overcome human evil.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">Enough.
Enough waste. Enough abuse. Enough neglect. Enough cruelty.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">Enough
militant ignorance or merely blind unknowing.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">Enough
already.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">We women
have to let ourselves be vulnerable to inspiration,</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">to get
busy, organize ourselves, exert more leadership to address</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">the
anguish of the world, by example to encourage all the women</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">of the
world with their three billion pairs of hands to use them</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">compassionately
and efficiently, to believe in their own intelligence</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">and
competence and put their minds to use, many of them writing</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and
sending emblems of hope out to the angry, the wretched,<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">the
hungry and homeless, the rich and cultured, the uneducated,</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">the
illiterate, the poor, the anguished billions.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">Truth is
the antidote to war, and to hunger and homelessness.</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">More women
need to speak it, write it, drench the fabric </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">of human experience with it so
people can know they are worthwhile, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">even in confusion, loss, devastating
illness or injury to body, mind, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">soul or lifestyle. </span></div>
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</span>
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">For
everyone who goes under, hundreds, then thousands must live</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">to tell
the stories and suggest a solution. I know women doing so right now. </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">Their
efforts are generously, massively, cooperatively brought to realization— </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">their
art, their voices, their minds are unstoppable in telling the truth about</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the
hidden lives of despair and unsurmounted courage all around us—</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">under
bridges, in doorways and alleys, in churches and synagogues</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and
mosques, in schools and union meetings, in kitchens and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">bedrooms
and tents, and under the open sky of sun and stars.</span></div>
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">One is an
actor, writer and filmmaker, one an investor, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">one a photographer, several are
painters, several are teachers, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">many are rabbis, priests and ministers, several
are lawyers, judges and scholars</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">one is a singer and one is a dancer, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">many are
poets, one is a shuttle bus driver</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">one a community organizer, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">one a
transportation manager, one a travel agent</span> </span></span></div>
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0" style="font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for social justice and<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> medical aid, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">one
a physician, one a nurse,</span></span> one a therapist<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">of mind-body medicine </span>who helps restore hope
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and</span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> teaches</span> reconciliation<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and stress management </span></span></span></span></span></span>in
countries of conflict or those hit hard<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">by natural disaster. Many serve others in shelters</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">
</span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Most are
mothers, some are nuns, </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">many have never known a day of hunger,</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">some have
been half-starved.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What
they’re doing is too diverse and too dynamic to describe</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on a
single page. But I am telling you, they are alive. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They need
our solidarity, our help, our presence and participation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They
need whatever we have to give, beginning with our attention.<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">They are
giving themselves to good work. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">Day by
day, one act of faith and courage after another,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">they are
saving the world.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">
<i><span style="color: black;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><i><span style="color: black;"> Alla Renée
Bozarth</span></i></span> </span></i></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><b><span style="color: black;">Diamonds in a Stony Field</span></b></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span style="color: black;">Copyright 2013</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">And for those women who remained not only unrecognized, but tortured </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and killed for </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">daring to serve</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"> humanity, women who gave
their all for the</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">well-being of others, let us </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">now honor them as they
continue to inspire us </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">f</span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">rom their great communion of healers </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0">and
liberators in the invisible realms:</span>
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</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Circle of Fire</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><i><span style="color: black;">Alla Renée
Bozarth</span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321573398_0"><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> For the nine million women killed</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for having too small feet, marks on their bodies,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">natural religion, desire toward their God,</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">love of each other, ancient wisdom; for disobeying</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">husbands, for thinking for themselves, for mystical</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flight; for not cooking/speaking/sewing pleasingly;</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for keeping silence; for not keeping silence; for</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">refusing the use and abuse of their bodies and souls;</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for healing with herbs by natural laws; for ecstasy</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as witches</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for six hundred years in the Modern Era</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the more they killed</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">us</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the more</span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;">WE GREW</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the mother goes out When the grandmother goes out </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her fields of wheat to her colors of amber</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her fields of maize to her colors of gold</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her fields of buckwheat to her colors of black</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her fields of rice to her colors of crimson</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her fields of flowers to her beautiful rainbow colors</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the mother goes out when the grandmother goes out </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will she return will she return</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And the more they killed And the more they killed</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> us us</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the more the more</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;"> WE GREW WE GREW</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the daughter goes out When the sister goes out</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her paths of honey to her wide roads</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her paths of brick to her yellow roads</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her paths of labor to her roads of diamond</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her paths of play to her roads of coal</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her wonderful path of work to her roads of cement</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the daughter goes out when the sister goes out</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will she return will she return</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And the more they killed And the more they killed</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> us us</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the more the more</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;"> </span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;">WE GREW WE GREW</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the friend goes out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her mines of emerald </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her mines of tin </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her mines of copper </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her mines of amethyst</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to her mines of bodies </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the friend goes out </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will she return</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And the more they killed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the more<b><i><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;"> </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;"> WE GREW</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The priests and prophets: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The healers and heroes: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The farmers and gardeners: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The midwives and miners: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The judges and geniuses: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The astronomers and physicists: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The teachers and poets: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their holy lives: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their courage to deviate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the subhuman norms</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> expected of them:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Their unjust deaths: We honor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women accused: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women burned: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women shot: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women torn: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women pierced: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women beaten: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women flayed: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women left unburied: We remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The women buried and forgotten~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We remember</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Until They Live Again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing Will Grow…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every devastation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every desecration</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every destruction</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every desolation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every dishonor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every despicable</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 8pt;">MURDER</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every horror</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every harrowing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every blood-letting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every soul-spilling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every utter holocaust</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every hidden history</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every outrage of thunder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through every circle of fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unto ages of ages</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We endure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our blood endures</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our body endures</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our soul which is One endures</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our spirit and will endure</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our minds endure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 6.5pt;">WE ENDURE AND ENDURE AND ENDURE</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the living blood goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of holy women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of happy women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of nurturing women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of needed women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of beloved women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of brave women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of harried women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of horrible women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of wise old women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood of fierce young women goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When all the light in the world goes out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the blood goes out of Us</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>WE ENDURE</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>WE SHALL RETURN</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From <i>Stars in Your Bones: Emerging Signposts on Our Spiritual Journeys</i> by Alla Bozarth, Julia Barkley and Terri Hawthorne, North Star Press of St. Cloud 1990 and <i>Accidental Wisdom</i> by Alla Renée Bozarth, iUniverse 2003. All rights reserved. For permission to reprint write "Reprint permission" in the subject line and and contact Alla: <a href="mailto:allabearheart@yahoo.com">allabearheart@yahoo.com</a> or call 503-668-3119 evenings Pacific Time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This piece was put to music in cantata form by Minneapolis/St. Paul composer Paul Boesing and performed for the first time with the poet and Calliope Chorus, directed by Nancy Cox at the Women's Art Registry (WARM Gallery) of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1979. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Circle of Fire" is in the anti-<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">war section of the book Stars in Your Bones by Alla Bozarth, Julia Barkley and Terri Hawthorne, near the poem, "Transfiguration" which is part of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the permane<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nt collection of the Peace Memorial Garden in Hiroshima along with Julia Barkley's pain<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tings, "Circle of Fire" and "<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dra<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gons of Compassion for the Grief of the Sou<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">l<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Black Madonna – Notre Dame de Sous-Terre</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> In 1793 the French Revolutionaries burned</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> the ancient 11th century Black Madonna in the crypt </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> of the Cathedral at Chartres</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and made her cathedral a temple</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> to the goddess of reason.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Up in smoke.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What were they thinking?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those men dedicated to reason,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">replacing my body with hers —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">defiling my body’s temple</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that had endured five fires</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and was rebuilt by angels.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So much for enlightenment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The light my body gave them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when they put me in fire —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No illumination there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pear wood smells sweet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when it burns.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After three thousand years</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I became incense,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the incinerated Goddess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was Auschwitz, Birkenau,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cambodia, Hiroshima.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was every evil conflagration</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">invented by man.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was woman at the stake,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">child in the ovens,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mother killed in childbirth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">grandmother gassed or shot down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They could not sufficiently invade</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my sanctuary of color and stone</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until they burned my dark body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of earth. I was fruitful,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even in fire.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hissing, crackling charred</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cinders soared and so I ascended</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into heaven, in the form by which</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this church still honors and holds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me dear, not assumed, but ascending</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on my own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet I rain down sparks of myself</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into human memory. I go deep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earth holds and hides me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A hundred years later the tree</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yielded me a new body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daughter of that same pear tree</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gave me back to my people,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our Lady of the Pillar.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Notre Dame Sous La Terre</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is my real name.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One day she came,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the one who knows me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from my roots.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She waited, then</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the doors down below</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">were opened and she made</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her own divine descent.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Down into Earth she spiraled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">after me, knowing instinctively</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where I waited, my pilgrim daughter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">followed the labyrinth flower</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down and down and all ways around.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She found me, stood where I live</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">underground. I felt her eyes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her loving breath and gave back</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">breath and love.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At my Holy Well of the Strong</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she stood in my strength and bent</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down to receive my cool breath’s kiss,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to listen to the voice of my living</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">water coursing through Earth’s veins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like blood through the womb, like love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the chambers of the heart.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There in my luminous darkness she prayed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by the fire of one candle where</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">water meets fire and both live.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daughter, bring me back to the air.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take me up with you into light.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Help me ascend to topsoil</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and heal the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heal the world with me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The Book of Bliss</b>, iUniverse 2000 and <b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> This Mortal Marriage</b>, iUniverse 2003.</span></span><br />
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<b>Pear Wood</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every August, late,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or early September,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I walk, basket in hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down into my orchard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to gather pears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The smallest of trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is always most generous,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always bounty, abundance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no matter what — drought,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blight, or barren neighbors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peeling and cooking her juicy
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To taste it is joy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>The Book of Bliss</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the 13th century silver Madonna that once stood on the high altar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that was burned, resurrected in 1976 with New Pear Wood.</span></span><br />
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woman ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church are three great
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Rev. Alcena Boozer, and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Right Rev. Barbara Harris. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pauli Murray was a founder, with </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Betty Friedan, of the
National </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Organization for Women in 1966. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">My husband, the
Rev. Phil Bozarth-Campbell, was proud to be a member of NOW by virtue, he
pointed out, of its being <i>for </i>women, which allowed supportive men to
join. </span><br />
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Born in Baltimore in 1910, Pauli lost her mother to illness and her father was
murdered when she was four and thirteen years old respectively. After her
mother's death Pauli was sent to Durham, North Carolina and was raised there by
her aunt Pauline and her maternal grandparents. She graduated top of her high
school class, taught remedial reading in New York City as a young woman, and
wrote and published a novel, <i>Angel of the Desert,</i> and a poetry
collection, <i>Dark Testament and Other Poems</i>. </span><br />
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She joined the Civil Rights Movement in 1938, worked with the WPA and the NAACP
in the thirties, and developed a lifelong friendship with Eleanor
Roosevelt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">My husband, the
Rev. Phil Bozarth-Campbell, was proud to be a member of NOW by virtue, he
pointed out, of its being <i>for </i>women, which allowed supportive men to
join. </span><br />
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Born in Baltimore in 1910, Pauli lost her mother to illness and her father was
murdered when she was four and thirteen years old respectively. After her
mother's death Pauli was sent to Durham, North Carolina and was raised there by
her aunt Pauline and her maternal grandparents. She graduated top of her high
school class, taught remedial reading in New York City as a young woman, and
wrote and published a novel, <i>Angel of the Desert,</i> and a poetry
collection, <i>Dark Testament and Other Poems</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She joined the Civil Rights Movement in 1938, worked with the WPA and the NAACP
in the thirties, and developed a lifelong friendship with Eleanor
Roosevelt. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Pauli Murray was turned down for admission by the Columbia University undergraduate program and by Harvard University School of Law because she was a woman, and she was turned down by the University of North Carolina School of Law because she was black, and shame on them. Every black woman has this double bull's eye on her chest. Pauli's response was to double her counter-assault by persevering until she finally achieved her goal. She earned her bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1933 and her master's degree in law from Howard University in 1944, with several different kinds of projects in between. According to Wikipedia, she went to California soon after graduating from Howard, and there she "<span style="color: #222222;">did post-graduate work at </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boalt_Hall_School_of_Law" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" title="Boalt Hall School of Law">Boalt Hall School of Law</a><span style="color: #222222;"> at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a><span style="color: #222222;">.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">Her thesis for her master's degree was entitled 'The Right to Equal Opportunity in Employment,' which argued that 'the right to work is an inalienable right.' It was published in <i>The<u> </u></i></span><i style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Law_Review" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" title="California Law Review">California Law Review</a>, </i><span style="color: #222222;"> produced by the school." Pauli</span> passed the California State Bar Exam in 1945.<br /><br />Because of her high level of competence and brilliant mind, she soon went on to become a Deputy Attorney General of the State of California in 1946, a position she had to resign from after two months because of health problems. <span id="yiv3151307455yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464914007151_5597"><span id="yiv3151307455yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464914007151_5598"></span></span>I recently happened to see her in a television film short, busy, purposeful and vivacious at her desk as a young woman in a "March of Times" film documentary, featuring the contributions of African Americans in leadership in the 1940s and 50s. After her term as Deputy Attorney General of California, Pauli went into private practice and then in the 60s enrolled in Yale University for her doctoral degree in law. She was the first African American to receive that degree at Yale University in 1965. She became a professor of law as well as continuing her work as a social activist. She taught at the University of Ghana for a time, and held administrative offices at Benedict College and Brandeis University in the 1960s. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>
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In 1965, the year that Yale conferred the doctor of law degree on Pauli Murray,
Barbara Harris participated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. After the Philadelphia
Ordinations, both Barbara and Pauli realized in themselves a call from God to
serve as priests. Pauli earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School in 1976, and then she
was ordained a deacon and became the first African American woman priest in
1977. Barbara was ordained deacon in 1979 and priest in 1980, and went on to
become the first woman (who happened also to be African American) bishop in the
worldwide Anglican Communion in 1989. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I urge you to read Pauli Murray's remarkable books, for she was also a great
writer and poet. Among her many writings, she is probably best known for her
1956 autobiography, <b><i>Proud Shoes, </i></b>which explores the struggle for racial
and gender equality. Her posthumous autobiography is called <i><b>Song in a Weary
Throat,</b> </i>a line taken from one of the poems in her book, <i><b>Dark Testament.</b> </i>Throughout
her
career her interests and areas of expertise were diverse and deep. She
wrote
many works on the fine points of law as well as those related to
vocation,
justice and the soul. She died in 1985, the year after her retirement
and the
same year that my beloved husband Phil died. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Phil had been my priest
presenter and body-and-soul guard at the Philadelphia Ordinations on
July 29, 1974 at the integrated mostly black inner city Church of the
Advocate. Barbara Harris was the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">S</span>enior <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">W</span>arden at the Advocate then, and
a prominent businesswoman as executive in charge of public relations at Sun Oil, as well as a leading member of the Urban League. She
interrupted her participant-presenter responsibilities at an Urban
League Conference in San Francisco to fly back to Philadelphia in order
to carry the cross at the head of the liturgical procession and lead us
safely into the church to create a <i>fait accompli</i> precedent by
becoming the first eleven women priests in the Episcopal Church. Our
contribution to American culture in general was incidentally to provide
one day of Watergate relief that summer as news and a large picture of
the ordinations made the top of the front pages nationally and received a
lesser but visible position globally through the Associated Press,
offering courage to all women struggling in oppressive institutions. </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">Bishop
Barbara Clementine Harris retired as suffragan bishop of Massachusetts at the
mandatory age of 72 in 2003, and worked as assisting bishop in the Diocese of
Washington D.C. until 2007. She is still active in ministry at 80, going in to
her office at the Diocese of Massachusetts headquarters several days a week
even after a stroke in the summer of 2010, from which she is expected to make a
full recovery. I am writing this on September 9, 2010. (In November 2011 I
called Barbara. She answered the phone breathless, having just gotten off the
train from a whirlwind trip to preach in one or two cities and then attend the
consecration of Bishop Mariann Budde at the National Cathedral in Washington
D.C. ~ <a href="http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/p/consecration-rt-rev-mariann-budde.html" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/p/consecration-rt-rev-mariann-budde.html</span></a><span style="color: purple;">)</span> </span></div>
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<span class="adv-photo-large"><span class="photo-data"><span class="caption">Ecumenical
Ministries of Oregon 2012 Annual Community Awards go to the Rev. Mark
Knutson, senior pastor of Augustana Lutheran Church;
Rabbi Benjamin Barnett of Beit Am Jewish Community; Emir Mohamed Siala
of Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center; and the Rev. Alcena Boozer, educator, Episcopal priest and rector
emerita of St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church. </span></span></span>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Alcena Boozer is
my local hero, whether as a high school principle working to reform conditions
in a mostly black school besieged by demoralization and violence, a priest
serving souls as (now retired) rector of the Portland parish Church of St.
Philip the Deacon, or helping to carry a large lead banner for equity in a
downtown parade for social justice in businesses and the professions. She also
holds a position of ecumenical outreach as president of Ecumenical Ministries
of Oregon, and she sometimes can be heard on public radio invoking the Holy
Spirit to bless human endeavor. I last heard her strong gentle voice
introducing Archbishop Tutu live from the University of Portland and offering
the invocation to bless his lecture there and all present. I felt blessed to
hear both luminaries over the air waves. Alcena made a tiring nine hour plane
trip from Portland to Boston via St. Louis on our way to Barbara Harris'
consecration as suffragan bishop of Massachusetts in 1989 not only bearable,
but a joy. She is always a lovely companion and a stirring leader.<br />
I've had the privilege of meeting and personally admiring all three of these
women. The tenth anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations was the last
occasion of my seeing Pauli Murray in person before her going back into God in
1985~ a dynamic and radiant light. Each of these inspiring women is a radiant
being and a gentle soul as well as a sharp, witty, to the point, down to earth
activist and born leader who is close to God and filled with the power of Holy
Spirit. Following portions of Sojourner Truth's famous speech below, I wrote
for them. <br />
<i><br />
</i>When Sojourner Truth stood up to speak to the sisters, she stretched out
her<br />
muscular arm and said~<br />
<br />
<b>Ain't I a Woman?</b>
<br />
<i><br />
. . . That man over there says that women need to be helped <br />
into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.
<br />
Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best
place! <br />
And ain't I a woman? <br />
<br />
Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, <br />
and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! <br />
And ain't I a woman? <br />
<br />
I could work as much and eat as much as a man— when I could get it— <br />
and bear the lash as well! <br />
And ain't I a woman? <br />
<br />
I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, <br />
and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard
me! <br />
And ain't I a woman? . . .<br />
<br />
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as
men, <br />
'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come
from?
<br />
Where did your Christ come from? From God and a
woman!
<br />
Man had nothing to do with Him. <br />
<br />
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough <br />
to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together <br />
ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up
again! <br />
And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. <br />
<br />
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to
say. <br />
<br />
</i>
End of speech by Sojourner Truth delivered at the 1851 <br />
Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the poem below,
"Dark Testament" and "<i>song in a weary throat</i>" refer
to the titles of two books by Pauli Murray.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
Bishops Katherine Jefferts Schori, Barbara Harris, </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br />
<b> Gayle Harris,
Chilton Knudsen and Catherine Roskam</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Spirit of Sojourner Truth as a
Preacher Today</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For Pauli Murray and Barbara Harris,
with references</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to Sojourner Truth’s famous speech delivered
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">at the Women’s Convention in Akron,
Ohio, and also</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">references to Pauli Murray’s poetry
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dark
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Weary Throat</b>.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Among Sojourner Truth’s successors in our times—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pauli Murray and Barbara Harris . . . black female
Episcopal priests</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">who know how to flex their brain muscle in the face of
white male</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">domination, and produce their Dark Testament of
suffering and </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">transformation against oppression, singing their song in a weary throat, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">saying “And Ain’t I
a Woman?”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to the white world, in hopes of giving it a little
healthy color</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">sense, and bringing back the commandment of Honor Thy Mother~</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to rescue wayward sons from self-made hells.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do the right thing</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is what they mean.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The doors that were slammed in their faces</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">became the work-out equipment for their souls.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They pushed hard against them, and relentlessly,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and down came those doors for their daughters</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">like Joshua’s walls of Jericho came down</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">at the clear trumpet’s voice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mighty is the voice of a bright woman’s mind,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">great are the words of a Spirited woman’s soul.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Heed them. Heed them all, for these our sist<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e</span>rs</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">are as we, flesh of woman’s flesh, human child</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of love gone wild in demand of freedom</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for those born of her labor— </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">flesh of woman’s flesh, soul of woman’s soul—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and they shall not be bound.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They shall not be bound again on this Earth.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let their sons dream dreams and their daughters have visions,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and let them work effectively and sing harmoniously
together,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">in strength and respect, to restore conscience, truth
and hope,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to transform all the bound and broken world.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And as their sister, I accept my proud place behind
and beside them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gratefully, I follow them into the future, flexing my
soul</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and lifting my voice with theirs to sing out freedom,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for Ain’t I a Woman?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alla Renėe
Bozarth</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Diamonds
in a Stony</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Field</b> © 2014</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KVk_JnFH3gA/T7mDr4gfZCI/AAAAAAAABTA/TeLjcNob5MI/s1600/Bishop+Barbara+Harris+in+blue.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KVk_JnFH3gA/T7mDr4gfZCI/AAAAAAAABTA/TeLjcNob5MI/s1600/Bishop+Barbara+Harris+in+blue.jpeg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">To
read Bishop Harris' sermon for global justice for women preached at the
25th anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations, and to read about
more women heroes, including Li Tim-Oi, an ordained deacon who was
ordained to the priesthood in war-torn China in 1944 during a crisis
when all the male priests were forbidden to cross borders to serve their
congregations, and who after the war surrendered her license to
officiate as a priest so that her bishop would stop being persecuted by
his brother bishops in England; and space scientist and priest Jeannette
Piccard, identified by history as the first woman in space when she
piloted her husband Jean's hot air balloon invention into the
stratosphere; and most recently, Presiding Bishop/marine scie<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">ntist and
pilot Katherine Jefferts Schori, follow
the link after "Pearls" at the end of this page.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">You
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">You
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">The
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">your
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">invisible
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">rough
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">through
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">crack in the shell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">You
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">Happy
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">at
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">you
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">You
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;">a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Cosmic Nest</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the Hubble Telescope News Pages: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Called a light echo, the expanding illumination of a dusty cloud
around the star has been revealing remarkable structures ever since
the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002." This Light Echo is around a red supergiant star named V838. The Red Giants are the oldest stars in the universe, and from them, stardust made its way to Earth in the form of minerals that are essential to human life, vital contents of our bodies, potassium, calcium and iron. They also give us gold.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Cosmic Child</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Worldflesh— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My bones</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Red Stars!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Stars in Your Bones</b>,</span></span></div>
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Star Press of St.
Cloud 1990</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and<b> Moving to the Edge of the World</b>,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Bosom of Heaven</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the Beginning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there was only the </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I think I’ll break </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of pieces to infinity </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and give Myself amnesia </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in some of those pieces</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then see what happens!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that is how </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Universe came </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This sweet excitement,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the divine breaking </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that allows </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a lonesome God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to relate, relate, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">relate to an infinity </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of diverse beings, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each of whom is trying </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to remember something </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">terribly important </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about itself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some succeed better</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And quicker.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes this leaves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">us howling in agonies </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of forgetfulness and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">separation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But sometimes we remember, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from tadpoles to comets, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we wag our tails.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="color: black;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth<b> </b></i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Accidental Wisdom </b><i> </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">iUniverse 2003 <i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Belonging~ </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stars in Your Bones</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The small plot of ground</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on which you were born</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cannot be expected</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to stay forever</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Earth changes, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and home </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">becomes different </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">places.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">You took flesh </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">from clay </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">but the clay </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">did not come </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">from just one </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">place.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">To feel alive, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">important, and safe, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">know your own waters </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and hills, but know </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">more.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">You have stars </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">in your bones </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and oceans </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">in blood.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">You have opposing </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">terrain in each eye.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">You belong to the land </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and sky of your first cry, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">you belong to infinity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the audiotapes,<i> </i><b>Dance for Me When I Die </b>and<b> Reading Out Loud to God</b>
{under the title, “Stars in Your Bones,” from which the book of poems
and paintings was later named}, Alla Renée Bozarth, Wisdom House,
copyright 1990; <b> Stars in Your Bones</b>: <b>Emerging Signposts on O<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ur Spiritual Journeys</span></b>, Alla Bozarth, Julia Barkley and Terri Hawthorne, North Star Press <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St. Cloud </span></span>1990 {out of print}; <b>This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, Lament and Praise, </b>Alla
Renée Bozarth, iUniverse, copyright 2003. All rights reserved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The poem "Belonging"</b> was put to music along with <b>William Stafford's poem, "Ask Me,"</b> by <b>St. Paul, Minnesota composer, Steve Heitzeg, </b>commissioned for a concert performed in February 2000 by the people of Grand Forks,
North Dakota for a ceremony of healing following the destruction and
rebuilding of their town after the catastrophic Red River flood of 1997:</span></span><br />
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What the River Says [the album]</span></h4>
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<td class="twoCol-right"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">1999
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<td class="twoCol-right"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">15 min
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<td class="twoCol-right"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">SATB chorus, piano and percussion
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Alla Renee Bozarth, Steve Heitzeg, William Stafford
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<tr><td class="twoCol-left"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Commissioned: </span></td>
<td class="twoCol-right"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Grand Forks Master Chorale through a Continental Harmony Grant </span></td>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">First Performance:</span></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Grand Forks Master Chorale; James Rodde, conductor,
Grand Forks, ND, 27 February 2000
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Belonging" was presented as a reading in Aurora Chorus's winter concert, "Stars In Your Bones," December 2007, in Portland, Oregon, titled after a beautiful phrase from this poem and the book by the same name. Late in 2016, composer and conductor of Aurora Chorus, Joan Szymko requested and was granted permission to compose music for "Belonging," and on May 21, 2017, she directed the premiere of her musical composition for piano, strings and voices of "Belonging," as sun<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">g by Aurora Chorus in a concert called, "A Place Where You Belong." The music was stunning! The pianist replicated the Big Bang of the universe being born from all the keys of the piano by sliding her elbow across the keyboard~ and it went forward from that breathtaking beginning. Here is part of the program:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Our 25th Anniversary concert season soars to a close with two world premieres! Renowned composers Carol Barnett and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1165550138&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/joan.szymko?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Joan Szymko</a> have created works that honor and celebrate the circle of love and life that is our Aurora Chorus community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Aurora commissioned renowned composer Carol Barnett to set poetry by Wendell Berry. "The Larger Circle" is an excerpt from Berry's "Healing." Joan Szymko adds to the legacy of music she has lovingly composed for Aurora Chorus by returning to the poetry of Alla Bozarth. "Belonging" (aka "Stars in Your Bones") will feature string quartet accompaniment. Aurora looks back to our rich past and balances these exciting new works with some of the most compelling music and words from our 25 years of being a place where you belong ~ a choral community where women find their voice And a place where joy and grief and tears of hope all flow together in the concert hall."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It remains an indescribable honor that my poetry was coupled with the sacred words of the great poet of the land and its people, Wendell Berry. This year, the composer who created music for Berry's "Healing" excerpt has put my poem, "Dance then to Everything" to music. The acoustic brilliance that <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1281291514&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/carol.barnett.1238?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Carol Barnett</a> has added to the poem invites, no, it compels the soul if not the body to dance in all kinds of ways. The rhythms that Carol draws from the text astounded me. Thank you, sister artists, musician/composers <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1165550138&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/joan.szymko?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Joan Szymko</a> and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1281291514&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/carol.barnett.1238?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Carol Barnett</a>.</span><br />
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I don't have a way to share the music of "Belonging" with you but here is a way to listen to Joan Szymko's musical composition of my poem, "Call"~<br />
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Then To Everything </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Music is everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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music is in sound and <o:p></o:p></div>
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music is in silence<o:p></o:p></div>
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Therefore I dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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to silence I dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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to tears I dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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to laughter I dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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to groans and moans<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance to Rachmaninoff<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Bach, to Beethoven<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Dylan, to Carole King<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Marvin Gay and to everything<o:p></o:p></div>
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composed, harmonious and played<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dance then to birdsong and waterfall,<o:p></o:p></div>
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to the spring scented forest and
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to snow and the rain, to river and
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with desert or mountain, I dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the dancing mind can dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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forward or backward in time and space
also,<o:p></o:p></div>
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indeed to outer and inner dimensions
uncommonly known<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance with my eyes, <o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance with one hand,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance clapping, <o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance with one foot <o:p></o:p></div>
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or one shoulder, my hair <o:p></o:p></div>
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dances with wind <o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance to poetry while hearing it, <o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance to poetry while reading it <o:p></o:p></div>
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aloud to the tree for whom I wrote it<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I dance around the lovely thing <o:p></o:p></div>
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with my hand or arm encircling<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Rumi danced his grief<o:p></o:p></div>
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and finally his joy around<o:p></o:p></div>
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the cool, smooth, sacred stone <o:p></o:p></div>
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until he warmed it with longing~<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Rumi danced around the pillar of
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when his beloved teacher and friend <o:p></o:p></div>
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called Shams, <i>The Sun</i>, had died—<o:p></o:p></div>
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He danced to call back the Light <o:p></o:p></div>
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from the belly of darkness <o:p></o:p></div>
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that had swallowed the sky,<o:p></o:p></div>
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as now the Sufi dance after him<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Dance is the Song of the Body,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Songs are the Dance of the Voice~<o:p></o:p></div>
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as both Move, Utter, Outer the Soul<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance to the gospels<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance to the psalms<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance to a friend<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dance mostly and always<o:p></o:p></div>
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to God <o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t let the limitations<o:p></o:p></div>
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of your body deter you,<o:p></o:p></div>
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dance with your mind,<o:p></o:p></div>
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dance with your soul<o:p></o:p></div>
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across great distances<o:p></o:p></div>
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of space and time<o:p></o:p></div>
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and dance on your own<o:p></o:p></div>
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Feel free to<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dance all by yourself<o:p></o:p></div>
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so no one will know<o:p></o:p></div>
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but you and the Beloved,<o:p></o:p></div>
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experience the Beloved,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Heartland</b><br /><br />All of Earth is holy ground,<br />and beneath our feet throbs<br />the heartbeat of our loving<span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Mother with such sweet power<br />that the stones themselves laugh<br />for joy, they sing, they leap<br />from mountain fires, they float<br />in sculpting rivers, by sun and moon<br />light revealing shadows, reflecting<br />the cracked and jagged, the broken,<br />smoothed, and soothed, the surprising,<br />the countless shapes of every creature’s<br />deep, divinely dreamed and lively, most<br />sacred, secret heart.<br /><br />Alla Renée Bozarth<br />Diamonds in a Stony Field<br />©2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7913"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7914">As the Hebrew words for <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7915">the Divine (Feminine), <i>El</i>, and brea<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7916">sts, </span></span><i>Shaddai</i>, from the plural form, <i>Shadayim</i>, may <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7917">refer to</span> the Divine Breasts, while <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7918">in a<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7919">nother interpretation the mountain of Hebrew or Greek feminine Wisdom words, <i>Hok</i><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7920"><i>mah and Sophia,</i> </span>is the pregnant womb of Mother G<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478385312171_7921">od.
Breast and womb are both associated with the transformational
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caldron of the Divine Mother in ancient iconography.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In Their Own Image~ Grandma
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Today someone sent me a portrait of God the Grumpy Geezer.</div>
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I did not think much of it, except, “Poor Guy.”</div>
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Looks like God’s kids don’t call </div>
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and the pension check doesn’t </div>
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cover much of anything. </div>
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He’d probably have road rage behind the wheel. </div>
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I used to just dismiss the fellow, </div>
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no matter how much good press he gets from </div>
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God-knows-who, given the way he’s said to treat </div>
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his friends, and foes need not apply.</div>
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He’s been shown too long and too much as a big bad version</div>
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of humanity’s worst traits: immature, petty, spiteful,
judgmental,</div>
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sulking, mean-spirited and downright violent, not to mention</div>
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prone to child abuse. God is Love is Right, but this is no
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of the Real God I know and love.</div>
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That wonderful Jewish Rabbi Yeshua who showed so much</div>
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divine transparency has been treated badly, too, made out</div>
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to be the Palestine Pansy when he’s really so direct it’s
daunting.</div>
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“Judge not or you’ll be judged,” he said, but most people</div>
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I’m taking a turn of conscience today. I feel so bad for the
persona </div>
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in this postcard picture of him on my kitchen counter that I’ve decided
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some time cheering him up. First, I’d bake him some cookies,
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really something because I’m no baker. Better make him a
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I can do that! I’ll whip up my special whipped cream with </div>
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vanilla and orange extracts to go with it and watch him purr
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when he smells it fresh from the oven and gets a look at </div>
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the beautiful pie cherry color, then takes his first bite of
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with a big dollop of vanilla orange whipped cream.</div>
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After that he’ll feel relaxed, and I’ll start telling him
jokes~ </div>
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the penguin joke is good, but maybe he’s heard it too often.
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Lena and Ole are always winners.</div>
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Then I’ll give him a blanket and show him the chaise </div>
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in the spring garden so he can take a nap under </div>
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the cherry tree and inhale lilacs and roses, and drift off </div>
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to the lullaby of water falling over rocks and birdsongs. </div>
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I’ll tell the birds to keep their serenade melodious and </div>
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gentle, not as raucous as it sometimes gets around here. . .
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I’ll bet he hasn’t had a time like this in millennia.</div>
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After awhile I’ll wake him up with a big loud kiss </div>
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on his furrowed forehead. I’ll ask him to tell me his
dreams. . . . </div>
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I’ll listen with all my heart. Then I’ll ask how the Beautiful
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Lady I know as God is. . . .</div>
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I do just that, and God’s husband says, “She cries tears of
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and empathy every day, which doesn’t look or sound happy, </div>
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but she says they’re way past happiness into feelings </div>
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she can only express in a river of love. </div>
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“She says there is all the anguish of the world in them, </div>
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getting bathed and balmed, all the things she can’t prevent </div>
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because of the way the universe is made with every creature </div>
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freely becoming itself, everything mixed in and tumbling, </div>
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but we love it all the more. </div>
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“She tells me I need to step back and let people hear her </div>
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firm but gentler voice. They seem to relate better to her. </div>
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She is breathtakingly beautiful, that’s a fact.</div>
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“She reminds me that fire is our firstborn child, the stuff </div>
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we used for the stars, that water came next, and air, then </div>
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the dark matter of space, and finally things cooled and </div>
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settled here and there, in space pockets of places, </div>
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to make the most interesting forms, some of them </div>
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teeming with life, like yours. </div>
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“Of course, I know all this. We did it together and are </div>
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anyway, we don’t really look like this, </div>
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but you humans seem to relate best to those you understand, </div>
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so you make us over into your own image in your minds, and</div>
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that’s how we come out in art.</div>
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“Even this business of “We” is strictly human. </div>
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You, We and I are the same here in God Town.
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This whole conversation is just for your benefit, Child,</div>
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but I’m enjoying it, too. You had a good point.</div>
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“We went along with your ancestors and overdid that </div>
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God the Father image, and look what happened. </div>
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Men behaving badly, thinking they’re being ‘godly,’ </div>
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lording it over everything and referring to me as ‘Lord,’ </div>
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too. Do they think I’m an Englishman and a member </div>
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of the Peerage? </div>
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“Now there’s a rowdy bunch. </div>
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What goes on in the House of Lords </div>
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would never pass for Paradise.
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“Well, Honey, Thanks for the great afternoon. </div>
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I’d better go see what your Mama God wants me to do </div>
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for her. Maybe we’ll show up together in a beautiful flower </div>
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in your garden tomorrow, and see if We/I/You can do </div>
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something to help that sick silk tree of yours. It’s already
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bloomed for you for 30 years past its life expectancy.</div>
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“But you and the tree love and appreciate each other </div>
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so it sticks around, even diseased and wounded, </div>
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forgetting its suffering for love and letting your </div>
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grateful tears of joy water its roots </div>
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as deep as deep can be.</div>
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“Thanks for shedding them.</div>
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Mama God loves you for it.</div>
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So do I. </div>
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“I’m not really such a bad guy. </div>
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I really am full of love.</div>
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That’s all I am, really,</div>
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but love is big as Infinity</div>
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and has so many forms,</div>
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also to Infinity.</div>
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“I hope humans in general really, really get that, </div>
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and inspired young or old painters keep on painting me </div>
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as other things besides themselves or others on a bad day </div>
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or in a sappy mood.</div>
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“Here in the garden with you, sharing my dreams </div>
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with a good listener, I’m feeling some tears of joy </div>
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of my own coming on. Maybe it’ll rain soon. </div>
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“Grandma God, now she’s the real gardener.</div>
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She says, ‘Gramps, you’re an old fraud pretending </div>
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not to understand about feelings sometimes. </div>
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When you let them come, </div>
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your tears make beautiful rainbows.’ ”</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>These Are the Realms
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Thanks
to Casaundra Williams Bennett for naming the image,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> “the Great Cosmic Pouch.” </i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Great Cosmic Pouch holds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and carries and is forevering the worlds,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while we within them are mere time fetuses</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forming ourselves to be born.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Spacetime~ A Womb with a View</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are time fetuses,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wrapped in the sphere of mortal beings,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">crowded among others also here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unaware of the More around us,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the reality Beyond, the Greater Life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that awaits us~~ as the fetus is unaware</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of older relatives, history, color, landscape,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the patterns of geese in flight, mangoes, movies,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">music, geometry, logical positivism, the smell of grass</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the ocean, the sensations of surfing or flying an airplane, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">grief, laughter, its mother or father as human beings (or hummingbirds </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or trees or microbes or elephants or moons or stars)~~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">though, as an embryo in a woman’s womb sometimes, without understanding</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">language, responds warmly to the sound of its father’s voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or as it may recognize its sister’s poke in the ribs and shouts of greeting,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and distinguish between its mother’s indigestion and elation~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beyond our knowing, and that is when souls in the Great Communion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Wonder of it, for which there is no translatable description?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Still, Eternity is always pregnant with us, always loving us,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">preparing surprises beyond our imagining for us,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that it can, and letting us know that we are already part of it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that throughout our mortal lives, every moment and all the time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to something more than ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Life is a party.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People arrive</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and are introduced.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Later, some of them</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will come to this one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inside, the party goes on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some people</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have a good time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some people</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have a bad time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some leave early.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some wait for the dawn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sooner or later,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everyone goes home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b><i> </i><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Copyright 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Time Gives</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time gives itself so </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that we have it </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to use well</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Create lives and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">shape destinies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Develop our talents</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and use our skills</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the greater good</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grow into our true selves,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">learn to be kind, learn to be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still, learn to move gracefully</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever remains unfinished</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that cannot be finished by others</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will be translated into some other </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">form in time in this universe or</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">another</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever unhealed wounds </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cannot be seared or closed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gently can be healed in another</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">life or eternity</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever injury or illness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cannot be mended or cured</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will be mended or cured</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by oblivion or Heaven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time heals all, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at least when it ends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Copyright 2013 </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Time and I</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is four days past Christmas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I feel finally ready for the Fourth of July,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or maybe merely the middle of June</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">approaching a midsummer dream.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How am I to keep from despair, knowing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as I do that I will never catch up again?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am the child left behind empty-handed, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and time is the older child running ahead </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the beach with the kite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps I shall sit down and watch, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mouth open in awe at the beauty of it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the colors, how they change and gleam</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as the wind dances them upward and the sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">glistens in play . . . And my eyes kiss all of them,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">these three, time and the wind and the sun,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I am happy to be here, seeing everything</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there is to see in the world right now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And suddenly, I am the kite in the scene,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I am perfectly happy, joyous, knowing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I am now carried where I could not plan</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or decree, and the design as it happens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">perfectly suits me. And the singing and laughing</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">burst out of me as tears sting on my cheeks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the salt air, and I do not care if I shall ever</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be on time for anything less important again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>Diamonds in a Stony Field</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b><b>Biodance</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Everything bears the property of love.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Sitting on a rock in the Salmon River</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> watching first leaves fall . . . </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From
sunhigh mountain treetops </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">upstream
the rapids carry </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">old
branches to the sea, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their
leaves landlocked already.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why
so soon?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not
soon at all—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your
time is complete.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And
so is mine.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
rest in sunlight</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before
transforming</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into
earth and air. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
dissolve your leafy form</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
recompose into a thousand bodies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing
ever ends.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everything
is always beginning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shall
I find myself tomorrow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">shining
in a waterdrop</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on
a piece of moss</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on
the bark of a tree</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that
once was you?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Green
into burntred,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">old
leaf, our biodance began</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">millennia
ago, but today</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
am glad to see you clearly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for
the first time</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with
just these eyes,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my
changing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">partner!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your bronze body turns</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to
powder</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with
a crack</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beneath
my foot.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Part
of you has already become me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
are on your new way.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
will be back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From <b>Stars in Your Bones: Emerging Signposts on
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alla Bozarth, Julia
Barkley and Terri Hawthorne, North Star Press of St. Cloud 19990; and <b>This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, Lament
and Praise, </b>Alla Renée Bozarth, iUniverse 2003</span><br />
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North face of Mt. St. Helens, with wasteland desert where forests once were, </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Interior Landscape</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;">Desert</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beloved—<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> in You I am lost,<br /> desolate, not knowing<br /> where to focus, and no place to hide—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then slowly my eyes adjust</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to Your subtle shapes,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your toned-down colors</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and see You as both</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rest and the struggle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to learn how to endure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will not live in You</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through lengths of days</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I will visit You</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fearlessly in times of</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wilderness emptying—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then we are one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Forest</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beloved—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oh, deep heart of myself,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the streams of sunlight to warm the soul,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the shadow places to hide in,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the wet, mossy places to rest in,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the emerald places, the jade places,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the teal places, the brown places</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and places blackened with ash,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oh, home of the Great Mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where sanctuary lives—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where the wild gardens of God thrive</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I trade the breath of life abundantly with Your trees </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the holy ground of Your vegetation—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So we are one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ocean</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beloved—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oh, Great Seas, Grandmothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of all species, we human beings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all our colors and voices</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">travel across Your waters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">guided by stars </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and play on Your shores—</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From You we all come,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we Earthlings— we bless You,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we are one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;">River</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beloved—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flowing, always</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flowing on, sight seer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and life giver, singing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your song, forever,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are one.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Salmon River, flowing from a Mt. Hood Glacier.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mountains </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beloved—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">great high places</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that bring up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what nourishes us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the deep places,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that awaken and frighten us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and remind us to make room,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that teach us to be respectful,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">generous with places to fix the eye,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your great hard, solid mass a mere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">window to Heaven—</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You inspire everything in me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to lift and to lighten and be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unafraid for all to see—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I grow and we become one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beloved—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the living room of the soul,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the place of home, of crops</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that feed the masses, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of flowers that feed the senses,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the senses are open doorways</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the soul—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where we are forever one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Map of Longing</i> in <b>Quartet</b> © 2016</span><br />
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Scroll through this link page to see "Bare Heart" and "Heartland" as well. </div>
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<a href="http://bearblessings.com/products?keywords=heart">http://bearblessings.com/products?keywords=heart</a></div>
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Graphic art by Susan Lind-Kanne</div>
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with selected poems by <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alla Renée Bozarth</span> </div>
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at <b>Bear Blessings Soul Cards.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Creature’s Prayer
for True Community</b></span></span></b></div>
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</span></b><br />
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</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Mysterious One,</span></b></div>
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</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You who longed us</span></b></div>
<b>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into reality, guide us now</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into its fullest and best.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O Lonely One,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You who desired us</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into our being, bless us now</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with kindly kinship—</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let there be between
us</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and growing among us</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that trusting spirit
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mutual good will,</span></b></div>
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</span></b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reciprocal
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</span></b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and convivial
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</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and manifests in
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that is Your Own
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</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
From <b>The Frequency of Light</b>, copyright 2014.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Bear’s Twilight Prayer</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Just now, among the
nuthatches</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and crows, I went
out to pray.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Among the
wildflowers with small deer</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and their mothers I
prayed.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">With injured trees
and moles</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and gray rabbits I
prayed.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">With purple kale and
white cosmos</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">holding still under
first stars</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">in the sapphire sky
I prayed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">With red leaves of
liquid amber</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and the fallen
leaves of golden walnut</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I prayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the beautiful corpses</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of summer I
prayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With waking coyote</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and motors of cars
returning</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">weary humans to
their evening homes</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I prayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Great Mystery I yearned</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">for their
well-being, I yearned</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">for their happiness.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">An old bear crying
in the wilderness,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">furry prophet manged
among the wildflowers,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">bare patches of pink
skin shining golden</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">in the gloaming
light, blending in</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">with the last brave
roses in bud,</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and thorny as their
tired brown branches.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Here I kneel and
roll and sleep.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">And breathing in the
crisp air</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of crimson autumn, I
pray for Creation.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I pray for
Creator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my prayer</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">is naming Them by my
own secret names</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">of gratefulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My prayer is holding their own </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">true sacred names in
silent empty space.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">My prayer is
enjoying their company.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">My prayer is being
glad to be one of them.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Quartet</b>, copyright 2011.</span></span></span></div>
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<b>Toklot Bear</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></b></div>
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<b>Below~ Spiral Galaxy from the Hubble Space Camera.</b><br />
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* * * * * </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>She Loves It All</b> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when god was a girl she loved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to play dress up with hydrogen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and nitrogen, she wiggled her hips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blew kisses from her voluptuous</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lips and wiggled her fingers to toss the stars~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she juggled them and tied ribbons on them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when she wanted to create new dimensions,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to open all the directions she hurled them like a salad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that no one told her not to play with, so she giggled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and played until all the ingredients stuck on the ceiling of
sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but then she’d coax them back into action and let them
decide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where to go and how far and when or if to land, and</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she would go far out, way, way out to play </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with her dolls, the gaseous, luminous balls of delight, </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hold them in her cool hands for a millennial minute</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to turn them into planets and things of that sort, </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with what we call substance, solid stuff</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but there was precious little of that compared</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the zillions of light years and miles of raw energy </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she stores in those closets disguised as nothingness,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dark matter if it’s just out there and going nowhere</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(we think), and dark energy if it seems to push</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the many verses ever outward from each other~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for epic cosmic poems gone lyrical and operatic wild</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there is always music as silence and vice versa</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">going on in the movement between beings</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and yes, she likes those comets, never lost</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
her taste for new things, plays with galaxies and
constellations </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of beautiful toys and wears them like jewelry in living
colors,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
lots of necklaces and rings, baubles on Christmas trees,
then turns them </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
into mirrors of herself, better than hot melted many-colored
glass spinning</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
in the fire~ though sometimes she is shy and covers them with
night invisible, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that brilliant dark country that covers the map of heaven, and
she does it</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the better to show her curls, her graceful arms, her reach
into fire for love, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
her laughter-made comets~ and sometimes she braids their
tails</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and sometimes she says, you are simply gorgeous,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
delicious as roses on a birthday cake, scrumptious</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
as a coarse lemon poppy seed wedding cake with </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
thick passion fruit frosting, with gold leaves and silver </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
bangles and pearls, with marionberries and cream</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and she then gets distracted and remembers it’s lunch time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and she cooks up something new to serve variously </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
here and there around the place~ and to her, the future </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
is not in front or ahead or out there but inside, always </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
inside everything, where the past is pretending to govern </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
what we call the present but she calls Beloved, and where </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
nothing yet imagined is just about to happen</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
next week we’ll talk about when god was a mountain,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
then how all the kinds of rocks became her feet</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
until she wanted to run again with a bird’s eye view</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and became a baby giraffe</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and later, about how she tried on the whole zoo,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and then settled down for several millennia</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
as an entire evergreen forest, yes, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the ancient sequoias, the redwoods mingling</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with blue spruce, and then she became an etude,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
a fantasie-impromptu, a symphony, a garland</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of roses, a garden of petunias and pansies</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and marigolds which she served in salads</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to strengthen the blood of her mammals,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and dandelions, which doubled as tonic and</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
oh~ maybe she’d like to be a mermaid</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and swim all the seas, yes, that would</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
be fine, she says</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and about then god the old woman decides it’s time</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to figure out what to do about all the beings who suffer </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
in pain, sorrow, confusion, anger or fear, which she knows </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
from being all of them, and asks us please to pray for her .
. . </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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Published October 27, 2013 on <a href="http://feminismandreligion.com/2013/10/27/she-loves-it-all-by-alla-renee-bozarth/">feminismandreligion.com/2013/10/27/she-loves-it-all-by-alla-renee-bozarth/</a></div>
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Inspired by the Image and Experience of poet and Nature Scout, Judy Todd,</div>
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Gorge on the Washington side of the river across from The Dalles, Oregon to see<br />
the pictograph<b> She Who Watches </b>for the first time.<br />
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When Judy sent me the photo it took my breath, as she told me it had taken hers,<br />
and the only way I could respond was in the stuttering speech of poetry.<br />
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As with all the images throughout, click on the picture to enlarge<br />
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Visit Judy's website and blog at NatureConnect Excursions~<br />
<a href="http://www.yournatureconnect.com/">http://www.yournatureconnect.com/</a><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Meeting </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">by Judy Todd, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Columbia River</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Gorge 2011~ </span></div>
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<b>She Who Watches Shows Herself . . . </b></div>
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<b> Opens Her Eyes to Me Now </b><br />
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breath suddenly<br />
taken, my mouth opens <br />
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as wide as Her Eyes<br />
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coming around the corner<br />
of my tiny life<br />
then drawn into Her<br />
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She sits watching over the river and all the living, </div>
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She with the eyes of ten open suns<br />
and the ears of ten listening mountains<br />
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to Earth, Spirit Protector and Witness,<br />
and Seeing my molecular readiness<br />
She has taken me into Her Soul<br />
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may i, by all means, help<br />
to dry Her tears <br />
and comfort Her broken Heart<br />
from the Inside and Out<br />
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my eyes keep opening wider and wider<br />
so does my mouth, breath nearly not at all,<br />
how can one see Her seeing her or him and breathe,<br />
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and later to speak without ceasing, <br />
to express Her horror at the self-wounded sorrows <br />
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or Earth or Her, hardly worthy of the sacred name, </div>
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<i>animal</i> ~<i>an </i><i>embodied </i><i>Ensoul</i>~<br />
and also to express Her and my own <br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">See Photos from the blog of Tom Foster, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pasco</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Washington</span></div>
<a href="http://iceagefloods.blogspot.com/2009/04/dalles-and-she-who-watches.html">http://iceagefloods.blogspot.com/2009/04/dalles-and-she-who-watches.html</a><br />
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Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-30864611467444025802011-11-02T17:39:00.039-07:002022-09-12T12:54:25.165-07:00All Souls Day~Rainbow Lava, the Communion of Saints and the Phil Tree<div class="post-header" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here’s an illustration of accidental art, or how nature and technology (which comes from the Greek, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">techne,</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> meaning to weave) blend together to create a surprise. My friend Mary</span> </span>Batinich took this picture just a few years ago while visiting from Minnesota. I should say that she took the original version of the picture, for my printer enhanced it, as autumn light leaving the leaves enhances them by revealing their normally invisible true colors. As we walked up the trail from my Waterfall Pilgrimage holy spot at Latourelle Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, it was deep twilight. We took pictures of each other at a place in the trail where the ancient Mt. Hood lava wall formed a slight indentation and we could huddle as if in the opening of a cave. The rock was gray, and deepening to dark silver with evening light. On the day she returned to Minnesota, I made prints of the pictures for her. This image was last, and the gray lava revealed latent colors of amethyst, emerald and pink sapphire ~ a gift from the fact that my printer was running out of ink. By the time I noticed the warning flash, the print was done. I scanned it back into the computer and now it’s my favorite picture of Mt. Hood lava on my way to my favorite waterfall in the Columbia Gorge, with the sweet memory of the process that allowed hidden colors (of imagination and machine) to reveal themselves. Below is another marvel of accidental portraiture taken decades ago by a visitor from North Dakota who wanted to photograph the summit of Mt. Hood. In the lounge of Timberline Lodge, he turned from the window facing the last five thousand feet toward the snowy summit of the mountain whose ancient name is Wy’East, and when he spoke to me he said, “Don't move.” He went home to the prairie with a double vision mountain. Because I love to pray with my eyes fixed on the Sacred Mountain, it's an honor to be photographed with a double vision of it, as if symbolizing the fusion of the inner and outer Mountain of God. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Do scroll down (or choose from the archives) to read my first All Souls' Day entry, a tribute to Phil, my beloved soulmate and spouse who returned his body to Earth, light and the stars and his spirit to Everywhere in God when he was 37 years old in 1985. <i>The Witness Magazine</i> where my poetry often appeared in those years gave me a memorial tree for Phil, who was my priest Presenter at the Philadelphia Ordinations. His mother, my mother-in-love, Betty Campbell was my lay Presenter. They were both tall and lovely in their bones and made impressive bodyguards as well, for one built closer to the earth in elfin form such as me. Betty followed Phil in 1988, and his father, Doug Campbell, in 1993. Below their images are poems for all three, tops in my personal corner of the Communion of Saints across the dimensions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">First, I'll quote this passage from the Dedication page of my website,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">finished in content but not in design. The dedication is at the top of that page</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">overlaid on this image of sunset coming over the Cascade Mountains with that</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">is still sleeping . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">“This Web site is dedicated to The Right Reverend Daniel Corrigan,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">1900-1994— Champion of All Forms of Justice,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Hero of Just Causes, Prayer-full, Grace-full Activist, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Truth-full and Loving Human Being—</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Thank you, Dan for knocking down unjust walls</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and helping me and so many others over the barriers.</span><span style="font-size: small;">”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the altar stands one of the three ordaining bishops, Daniel Corrigan </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">and Bishop Edward Welles, retired bishop of West Missouri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Feast of Saints Mary and Martha. Below at the 25th Anniversary Celebration at the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: small;">Eleven women risked their ministries and lives as they knew them by stepping forward to meet the bishops and present themselves for ordination to the Sacred Order of Priests. Renowned Civil Rights activist, Bishop Corrigan ordained the eldest, former space scientist Jeannette Piccard, and the youngest, Alla Renée Bozarth, at that time known as Sister Alla Bozarth-Campbell, a last name which she shared with her husband Phil Bozarth-Campbell until his untimely death in 1985. Bishop Corrigan was then 74 years old, Dr. Piccard was 79, and Dr. Bozarth(-Campbell) was 27. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: small;">Alla writes, “Decades later, when Bishop Corrigan was in his nineties, his wonderful wife Elizabeth told me that even though he was struggling with the effects of Alzheimer’s disease and unable to read prose books, he continued to stand at their Santa Barbara home windows each day facing the Pacific Ocean and then turn to face the surrounding mountains, while he read my poetry aloud as prayers. Knowing this made me happy beyond words. . . .</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I was grateful to know that portions of my poetry, straddling the lines between logic and sensory aesthetic centers in the brain, could serve my beloved ordaining bishop in this way as prayers of thanks and praise. After his death, Elizabeth and I had several telephone conversations during her first year of initiation into the sisterhood of loving and beloved women bereaved of their transfigured spouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Russians call the death of the body and its holy return to the earth the transfiguration of the soul, and Dan’s soul had been able to sustain practice for its transfiguring birth into Paradise long into the development of the disease that afflicted his mind and body. What a privilege and blessing it is for me to have been part of their lives in the ways that Elizabeth reported to me before his physical death, and to remain part of her life afterward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I cherish the memory, among other things, of her telling me that as his physical disease progressed, having forgotten how recently he’d told her, every ten minutes or so during his waking hours he would say to her, ‘I love you.’ What a wonderful thing to hear, what a wonderful thing to say, making sure by so many moments of tender declaration that these words would be the last words she would hear of his voice on Earth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the Holy of Holies, a layered gown long</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and bells on bare feet, and when I feel it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">coming on, I will wear my way in sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">or holy water of rain or dark night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here’s the Phil Tree as a baby, and not many years later,</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">large and protective of birds, flowers and fountain, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">as Enchanted Bottom in Love from "Midsummer Night's Dream,"</span>
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<b>The Phil Tree</b><br />
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In memory of Phil,<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">the tree was shorter than me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">when I planted it nearly twenty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">years ago, a gift from <i>The Witness Magazine,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">often visited by my poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My gardener had advised me which tree</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to choose. “Your husband was long and lean</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and shaggy, right?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Right.”</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">"A weeping sequoia, then."</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At first, the young tree faced the mountain,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">feet spread wide for balance, belly forward, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">as if pretending to be falling over backward in awe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">arms outward in wonder and joy.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I once took a photograph of Phil</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">standing in exactly this position</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">on a hill in San Francisco, mouth open</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">in delighted mock fear of falling backward</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">toward Union Square and the Bay.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Phil Tree is a weeping sequoia, then,</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and extending himself lovingly </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and protectively toward earth,</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">weeps only tears of love and awe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next summer, he had spun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to the south somehow, raised his arms</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and was clearly conducting the creatures’ chorus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">completely around toward the house</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and placed his arms in invitational dance position,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">asking me the question through my windows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">whether I’d like to come out into the garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and join him ~ "Wanna dance?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometime after that he began to play his guitar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A decade passed and birds began to perch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">on his ears, which at first seemed to be two more guitar necks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">carried over his back, but had become more and more a part of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For several years he worked as a one-tree band, playing a guitar</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(twelve string no doubt), with a classical Ovation and a folk stringed instrument </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">slung behind him, while a contraption held a harmonica up to his mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Later, it morphed into a flute, and his beard grew long beneath it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Visitors began to say, regarding the twenty foot tree,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“It’s a bunny!” This was a happy allusion to the Easter animal,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to which I smiled in acceptance, but I knew something else was going on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While rabbit ears serve as antennae, perhaps to heaven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the Phil Tree was developing a double hump on its back</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">where the two guitars had formerly hung.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One hump might have been a back pack befitting a woodsman,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">but two humps suggested that Phil and his tree</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">were growing their wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Protective limbs now reach down to curve</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">over a young ailing tree rose called Neon Lights,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and cradle the pyramid rocks and waterfall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to guard the gathering of all manner of birds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">from the neighborhood cats and coyotes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is angelic work, I believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And those long ears pointing through the sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">hold a constellation of crimson and gold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">feathery singers swaying in the air to that music</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">he still makes by means I no longer can tell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What I see is the secret pleasure of play,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">my paramour wearing donkey’s ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to woo his Titania (me) with Bottom’s dreamy seductions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and I hear that <i>Midsummer Night’s Dream </i>of Mendelssohn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">throughout the day, humming to me from Paradise</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">that <i>Songe d’une nuit d’été!</i></span></div>
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<i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i><br />
<b>The Frequencies of Sound</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Family</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the boat below are Phil’s dad, Doug
Campbell Sr., Phil, Alla under the pink hat and Phil’s mom, Betty
Campbell on Burntside Lake in the North Woods near the town of Ely and
the Boundary Waters between Minnesota and Manitoba north and west and
Ontario north and east. The lake party picture is followed by Betty
walking in her beloved woods at Camp Van Vac where the family has
enjoyed long summer vacations since Betty’s and Doug’s children <i>were </i>children.
These pictures are from old family albums. Our dear family friend Diane
Sundell took the picture of us in a boat on Burntside Lake, and Phil's
older brother Doug's godfather, Bishop Fred Putnman, took the picture of
Betty walking in the woods around the lake. Trust me~ Everyone in the
boat is grinning. We had a great catch and were looking forward to
getting back to the cabin so Betty could do her magic, frying northern
pike and bass with bacon like she did with trout . . .We thanked God for
our place in the food chain and dug in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I discovered the true story on which
the poem below Betty's picture is based 23 years after my father died
when I tackled my closet and archives during a storm of spring
cleaning and decided to go through all the files, including his. I
hadn't opened it in decades. Among other treasures, I found a
handwritten letter on the back of a map from Betty to my father,
thanking him for his hospitality toward Betty and Doug during our
wedding week in Oregon. (Along with other loving ideas he manifested,
Papa had taken them to the beach to coo and cheer with him as they
surreptitiously drove past our honeymoon motel!) On the car trip back
to Minnesota, Doug was eager to stop at some choice rivers in
Montana for a trout fishing side trip. The rest is in the poem and the
facts, though shown in a poetic light, are exactly as Betty reported
them to my father. What joy for me to discover this buried treasure
so many years later. I wrote the poem and sent it through cyber space
to Betty's family so they could read it while sharing her table
together in the family house (which until recently has stayed in the
family through three generations) on Mother's Day. The last poem is
for Doug and speaks for itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Betty Learns Fly Fishing and Meets the </b><b>Archangel</b><b> of Angling</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Up past her knees in the trout stream, a leak long poked in her waders,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">leg soaked, unable to keep up with her husband jubilantly bounding</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a mile ahead—she stopped to contemplate which of these</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">was the greater misery. ~~ Her first time angling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What kind of a cockeyed sport is this? </i>she thought<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Look at the man. I think I’ll hate him for a minute.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The wetter she got the more her nose ran </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">its own streams down her cold chin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Her flimsy feminine hanky was in the river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She was ready for it to snow on her next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She hadn’t moved for two minutes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">during this silent soliloquy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Suddenly, from downstream, a very elderly fisherman, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">arms up to hold his gear high, came gliding across the rocks,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">his face luminous with the radiance of a person living his bliss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He approached without slowing down or missing a stride, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and she said apologetically, “I’m a tenderfoot, but I’m trying to learn.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I’m an expert,” said the Ancient, and grinning with a wink, leaped passed her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Well, I guess I didn’t impress him,</i> she deduced with a shrug of her spirit and brow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She turned in another direction, opened her eyes to take in the light </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">on the water. Before sound, she felt presence, turned again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here came the old fishing wizard, looking into her eyes so hard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">from a shrinking distance she felt the strength</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of intention before she could see him clearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“This is for you,” he bellowed over the ruffling water,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In a second, he was there, took her hand and opened it, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">tucked a small object into it, winked again and leapt on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She looked down in wonderment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A pale pink and milky peach stone rested in the hollow of her palm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first smile of assurance slowly opened her face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Everything cleared. Into the river rainbow fish drew her,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">she never knew such happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Frequency of Light</b>, copyright 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Who is this Man?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What a tremendous thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to be in a boat with a man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">like that, whose face and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">presence are a benediction!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Everything that comes from him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">comes from a calm center,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a sureness, a place of knowledge</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">that cannot be divided from wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fishing by his side on a lake</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">in the steady gaze of the sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">is a gentle grace confounding</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">all reason. He’s a man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and more than a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This frightens me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and pleases me greatly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wind becomes him, trees’ leaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">throw themselves under his feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Greenwood glistens more, grass dances</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">in his path. I will learn without learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is enough to be with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>The Book of Bliss</b>, iUniverse, 2000</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> and <b>This is My Body~ Praying for Earth,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Prayers from the Heart</b>, iUniverse 2004</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Ap9pIkhh710-wDpdWoIsg5kdl29u6zqcGek5NpoS86alNv8-6JRhL14uatT3-bmnh4djTVme2USsGSUmo8gf64guz3-oFi96vNQDGjVgaGbBcNRue88osStyd2WeLBwbenUD1gbEZ5OUcYBV7YW1NSX9mGvKz7T6bu4FRmQhUkuMlclHYrXQ7QD9/s886/Ordination%20to%20the%20Diaconate%20Doug%20&%20Betty%20(2).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="529" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Ap9pIkhh710-wDpdWoIsg5kdl29u6zqcGek5NpoS86alNv8-6JRhL14uatT3-bmnh4djTVme2USsGSUmo8gf64guz3-oFi96vNQDGjVgaGbBcNRue88osStyd2WeLBwbenUD1gbEZ5OUcYBV7YW1NSX9mGvKz7T6bu4FRmQhUkuMlclHYrXQ7QD9/s320/Ordination%20to%20the%20Diaconate%20Doug%20&%20Betty%20(2).jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;">Doug Campbell, my "father-in-love,"</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;">greets me after my ordination to the </div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;">diaconate at St. Stephen's Cathedral</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;">in Portland, Oregon.</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 2in;"><div class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; margin-left: 2in;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWh2B1Jsc2T-fFjbQ6k3S-Xz-XN18VRUoSCQ2plE213pSkzccVZHIuJwopPa7QU7xalIaTouIB6ef56SM-WyW5RKVHKUoEOBVtTNfSjLgxHbJk1k-Pgb-jCu0Tstvmynkca_TtwtZsZzybqI5JYTUqyLTw3g_QqoXCE9cxa-b7sKE1t_aVV_BF9g1m/s1985/Betty%20and%20Doug%20Campbell%20as%20I%20met%20them.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1985" data-original-width="1415" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWh2B1Jsc2T-fFjbQ6k3S-Xz-XN18VRUoSCQ2plE213pSkzccVZHIuJwopPa7QU7xalIaTouIB6ef56SM-WyW5RKVHKUoEOBVtTNfSjLgxHbJk1k-Pgb-jCu0Tstvmynkca_TtwtZsZzybqI5JYTUqyLTw3g_QqoXCE9cxa-b7sKE1t_aVV_BF9g1m/s320/Betty%20and%20Doug%20Campbell%20as%20I%20met%20them.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"> Doug and Betty Campbell</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBmBVvp7gp6MOt8d1g9p20UgZ49r9GN1SzmCflz1eJH05UeqMu-GvD5kafkNNiJh2Y9usZyv_jct2HbIhMEYxK_E5DKyvBunFSGs2tOLQ9jTF7zbEc8PkE6Uzp5nd8frRWYhJ_7gj0Kw2E19MSOU_-JuK4U3ifhPMw0zgMm242P3c31COIEPMdCYf/s943/Doug%20Campbell,%20father-in-law,%20at%20Phil.%20Ord.%201st%20anniversary.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="943" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBmBVvp7gp6MOt8d1g9p20UgZ49r9GN1SzmCflz1eJH05UeqMu-GvD5kafkNNiJh2Y9usZyv_jct2HbIhMEYxK_E5DKyvBunFSGs2tOLQ9jTF7zbEc8PkE6Uzp5nd8frRWYhJ_7gj0Kw2E19MSOU_-JuK4U3ifhPMw0zgMm242P3c31COIEPMdCYf/s320/Doug%20Campbell,%20father-in-law,%20at%20Phil.%20Ord.%201st%20anniversary.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Doug Campbell celebrates </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">an anniversary of the Philadelphia </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ordinations </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">at St. Mark's Cathedral, </span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Minneapolis.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 2in; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The following is a tribute poem to my ancestors</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><i>represented by Villa Wiard and Will Little:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Villa and Will</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When Villa Wiard married Will Little, my generation was four constellations </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">away, unborn, a mere dim, distant indefinable scent in the air beyond the farm, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the scent of the future that came along once in awhile in the springtime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My ancestors Sarah Standish and John Wiard had married eight generations earlier~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sarah the granddaughter of Myles Standish, who may or may not have been</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the only Roman Catholic on the Mayflower, and John the descendant of my Breton archancestor, Johannes Wiard, who fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Villa’s mother, Rovilla, was French Canadian, hence the French name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of Great-great-Grandpa Little, I know very little, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">except that his people hailed from New York. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Will Little courted and married Villa Wiard back in Illinois, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and their daughter Alice Delphine would grow up to become </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the most educated woman around, a tiny intellectual </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">who was also a rural teacher and midwife,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">widow and mother of four, her youngest child my grandma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was almost a century of generations and miles </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">from the big buzzing lights of sin city Chicago, where I went </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">from my mountain town in Oregon to receive </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">higher education at the university and in the sweaty workout rooms </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of The Holy Ghost Honky Tonk Gym and The Gospel Blues Temple of Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From there, the Black Madonna would patrol the streets to gather in the needy </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">for hot soup, hot singing and smooth clean sheets for safe sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was one of the few places where people would not be robbed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of the lie that we live in a safe world, that lie being a necessary possession </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">which some of us mourn the theft of, for we needed it badly and still do </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and can hardly adjust to going on without it, because now we have to know</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">how unsafe everyone here is, not yet being dead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Imagine that it’s taken me more than half a century to realize </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">that when Grandma would say to me across her tiny kitchen table</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">in her little green house beneath the tall trees, “Baby, I am proud as can be</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of my ancestors, and especially of being an eleventh generation direct descendant </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">of Miles Standish who came to this land on the Mayflower,”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">she was telling me that I was a thirteenth generation heir of the pilgrim legacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And incidentally, on my grandfather’s side, seventh generation Osage Indian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Though Miles Standish was hired as a military organizer to set up the colony,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">he came with the Pilgrims, and lacking Puritan restraint, he shared </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">their spirit of new beginnings and their freedom to invent themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And so I inherit that spirit of independent autonomy and occasional anarchy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">for the common good that motivated those early modern immigrants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before them, it’d been mostly quiet of newcomers on this continent since </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the human ancestors of the people who already lived here had immigrated </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">from the other direction sixteen to twenty thousand years earlier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Asians, the Europeans and then the Africans all came here with their own </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">songs of lament and joy, love and supplication, their own pipes and drums </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of thanksgiving prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We sons and daughters of global immigrants, whether they came here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">kidnapped and enslaved or freely, still all sing on the same stringed instrument </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">built into our human throats. It’s our common birthright to sing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We all know how to clap and dance and ride the sound pitches </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">on our own breath swings through the air, and we all pray as we choose </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and survive this way, or if not by making the sounds, by listening and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">carrying on inside and saying our own Amen in our own ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Being a descendant of pilgrim people makes me the same as everyone else</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">since the beginning of the Great Migration out of Africa</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">before the coming of ice, when the call was strong to see how big</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the world was and how far we could go before it invited or forced us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">to light ourselves down and say, Home, if that happened, or at least,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Stay for awhile and explore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We all arrive wherever we light </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">with our songs and souls intact or in shreds, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">depending on the journey and how strong we are in body and spirit </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and what help we had or did not have on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Raising our voices to meet angels’ choirs allows us not to mind so much, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">or at least not all the time, the fact that we can’t be safe till we’re dead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The music of everything keeps us all going anyway, because it lightens </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the spirit and clears the mind for when we have to decide </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">how we’re going to respond when life and death happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We respond in an instant, sometimes, without thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The singing helps us forgive ourselves for what later might look like</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">bad choices and moves ~~We did the best we could with what we knew</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">or believed and had at the time. We couldn’t know the pain and trouble</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">our moves would lead to until they presented themselves~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then we sing again, to give ourselves mercy and firm resolve</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">without violent judgment against ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At home again in Oregon, when I visit The Holy Ghost Honky Tonk</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">dancing around my kitchen without touching the walls, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">thinking that Miles Standish and all would never have imagined</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">such a sight, such a sound, such a rhythm, such a person,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">or that their own blood runs in her veins and does such </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">*My names for The Chicago Urban Training Center and Jessie Jackson’s </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Operation Breadbasket, where I attended regularly, learned, cried, clapped </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and danced in the aisles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My Blessed Misfortunes</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>~My Grandma~ </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My grandma (Papa's mama) was my best friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">through childhood. In the same private archeological</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">midway on my "St. Valentine's Eve~" entry: </span></div>
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<a href="http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-02-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-03-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1">http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-02-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-03-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">that brought me the treasure of Betty's letters, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I discovered a story on ancient yellowed paper~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a story the Grandma had written about her first </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">year as a teacher in 1915 when she was 18 years</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">old. Her one-room schoolhouse was filled with students</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">from kindergarten through high school, one of them</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">as old as she was. She lived in a covered wagon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">connected with a boarding house. Here's my rendition </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My Grandma~</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Poetry is the one place </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">where people can speak </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">their original human mind.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"> Allen Ginsberg</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ginsberg was a Gemini.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ginsberg, the neurotic Manhattan ad man,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ginsberg, the saintly beat poet, setting San Francisco</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In high school he heard his bulky, grandmotherly</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">at her desk, read from Walt Whitman’s <i>Song of Myself</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">with exultation, and he fell all at once in love with poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My large, white-haired, bespectacled grandma,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and uttered like an ancient Greek rhapsode</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the ecstatic and sublime words of Whitman, Dickinson, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yeats, Poe, Shakespeare’s <i>King Lear, </i> Browning, Byron, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tennyson’s <i>Idylls of the King,</i> took me to Milton’s <i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Paradise</i><i>,</i> and all from memory, the divine utterances</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then one day, my Celtic grandmother began,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night . . ."</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">[from Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”]</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"> and I heard a resonant </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Grandma introduced me to the Whitman of our time,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and my life as a poet began. Seven years later, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">I met the man, gentle and alive with his prayer beads </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and bells, chanting his mantra songs, incense curling </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">around his ears, as we sat in a circle on night-stained </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">“Allen, this is Alla,” the host said, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and he lifted his wine glass like festive Pan </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">meeting Artemis in the wilderness, or Dionysos </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">finding Ariadne, abandoned to solitude and pregnant </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">on Naxos and ready for an uplift of wings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">“All praise, fair goddess,” he said with a flourish</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and bow, a Russian Jew metamorphosed </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">to a poet past places and times, including them all,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">acknowledging my Russian rootedness along with </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Blessed, I stayed and chanted the sacred wordless prayers</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">of song in the company of poets until morning past dawn.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Now he has gone to join the transcended masters, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and I am aging alone, along with the rest </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">of all mortal kin, but still here. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Cleaning out my father’s files twenty-some years</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">after his death but able to look at them for the first time,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">I find a story written by my grandmother about her first </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">teaching job in 1915 when she was 18 years old. </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">A one room schoolhouse in rural northern Illinois, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">her students five years old to her own age. </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">She called it, “Up from the Pit.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Her students were bright and willing, except for one,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">who loomed over her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Whenever she began a poetry lesson, Big Albert </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">commenced his merciless tirade, scoffing, complaining, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">ridiculing, whining. She tried everything to win him over. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">One Friday she forgot to pick up her paycheck </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">on the way home. Her landlady wanted the rent money, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and insisted that Grandma trudge back for it after supper. </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Thinking to save two of the three miles’ journey</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">She followed the fence line, but did not see a fifteen foot </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">to the bottom, where she hit water. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Terrified of what might be in there, she clawed </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">at the weeds on the slope side and dug her boots </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">into earth, screaming for help and cold to the bone. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Presently, a male voice responded, and following the map </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">of her sounds, a familiar face soon appeared in the wide </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">opening above her. By moonlight she could see </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">that it was none other than Big Albert, come to help </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">or taunt her. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">And taunt her he did, laughing and teasing </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">for fully five minutes, until she sobbed in rage, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">“You fiend! Get me out of here <i>now</i>!” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">Albert had her right where he wanted her, </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">“Okay, Teacher, I’ll get you out on one condition—</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">that you never again try to teach me poetry.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">“Yes! Fine! Now get me out!” </span></i><span lang="EN">He bent down the long </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">supple limb of a young tree growing on the edge of the pit </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and she grabbed it to pull herself steadily up </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">as she climbed the slippery cone, until he could reach her </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and haul her all the way out. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">He’d been there down the fence line setting traps.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">As he walked her to the school’s business office </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and back again, she said, “Albert, I’ve tried so hard </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">to make you like me. Why don’t you?” Surprised, he said, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">“Teacher, I like you fine! You’re a good teacher, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">you make me want to learn. I just can’t get that poetry, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and it makes me sick trying.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">to cue him to go outside for a smoke. He’d grin </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and she’d nod in consent and out to freedom he went. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">There’s Albert now, on the schoolhouse stoop, lighting up </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">just in from the future, emerging from a field of tall corn </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and . . . sitting down beside him to ask for a smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">Oh, Grandma, everything’s going to be all right now.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN"><b>Postlogue: </b></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"You're a poet? . . ."<b> </b></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Um hum. . . . Why?"</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Oh, I don't know, </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">I guess some people were just</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">born unlucky. . . ."</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Have you ever read any of my things?"</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"No, no, I can't say that I have."</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Too manly for poetry?"</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Yeah, that's right." </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Well, I wrote a poem last night</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">while you were sleeping."</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">"Oh, you did? . . . Well,</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN">you just keep it."</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"><b>Mama and Papa</b><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">As for my parents in the Great Communion, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">I write about them extensively with dozens of pictures </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">on my website, which will ultimately be completed, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">and also a little bit in the Interview here, and in more </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">detail in my book, <i>Womanpriest </i>which can be found </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">in the chronological listings below the Interview:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.xn--interviewwithallarenebozarthaboutwritingandpoetry-uke.com/">http://www.interviewwithallarenéebozarthaboutwritingandpoetry.com/</a><span style="font-size: small;">Here's this, though, about <span style="font-size: small;">my grandma's sister</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great Aunt Martha’s
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the summertime, Grandma and Grandpa </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">loved to play cards with Aunt Martha and </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Uncle Tom on Sunday afternoons.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I watched and drank lemonade and honey.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">One Sunday afternoon, it was Uncle Tom’s </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">he had to leave the table and go play with me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">He said he’d show me Aunt Martha’s grapevines,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">full of fat purple fruit and huge leaves.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Pick one, Baby,” he said, and with one tug</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">it was free and into my open mouth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh! What sweetness! What flavor! What glee!</span></span></span></div>
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Two more stuffed in, and then I said,</div>
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“I want to pick Aunt Martha some.”</div>
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Good thing I had my pink plastic purse</div>
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strapped across my chest for such things.</div>
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I filled it until it would barely close.</div>
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After awhile, we went back inside.</div>
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Uncle Tom sat on the couch </div>
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and spat in his spittoon, and</div>
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told how Baby had loved</div>
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the good grapes, ripe to perfection.</div>
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Grandma poured more lemonade.</div>
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I forgot about my gift to Aunt Martha.</div>
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It must have been some days or weeks</div>
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later when Mama noticed my pink purse</div>
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turning purple. What she thought</div>
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when she opened it she did not say.</div>
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In later years, she said I once collected</div>
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the best, ripest grapes from the vineyard</div>
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for a very special family communion wine.</div>
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It was a Sunday to remember.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alla Renée Bozarth</i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>My Blessed Misfortunes</b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Copyright 201<span style="font-size: small;">2</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To end today’s celebration of the Great Communion, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">three poems from <b>Love's Alchemy </b>followed by an </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">image of Sacred Sunset Mountain— </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> You Have to Practice for Paradise</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">You have to
practice</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">for </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Paradise</span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The music of sweet </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">forgiveness,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">the colors of love,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">the poetry of gratitude, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">the dance of pure bliss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">And the food! the food </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">that needs your soul’s </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">palate at its highest </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">pitch of receptivity </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">to be sensitive to such </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">delicate, deep flavors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">You can’t keep postponing </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">your real life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">You can’t keep renting </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">your experience,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">giving yourself only </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">in half doses,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">a provisional presence, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">a bit player</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">in your own existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Give it all you’ve got </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">You must empty and cleanse</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">your glass each time</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">to be able to fill it again</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">with everything fresh </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Let go of attachment</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and no longer identify</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">with merely your ego, your
body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Don’t dismiss Reality</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">just because it’s too weird </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">to be true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Go deeper to where the meaning
is, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">where the mystery lives. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">You can only describe it </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">in <i>as ifs</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Real bears don’t speak English.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Real angels don’t have feathers
or faces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">But we draw them </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">by our own lines of connection </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">to be able to relate beyond
ourselves </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and understand ourselves and
them </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">through them and with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">A fairy tale almost always </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">has the facts wrong, but </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">if you insist</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">on just the facts</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">you may miss the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Listen to the Mystery</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">call your name. It will be</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">with love, love and forgiveness</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and faith in you. And love~</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mysterious and True.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> <i>Alla
Renée Bozarth</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: black;"> Love’s
Alchemy</span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Copyright 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> All the Way Home</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">We waffle and wobble</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">our way through life,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">for we don’t see any signs</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">forbidding us, saying</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">No Waffling! or, Wobbling Not
Allowed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">It’s a balance kind of thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">But we cannot be expected to
have balance,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">for we live on a planet that
got knocked</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">off its course and wobbles and
tilts</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">its own way through time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">One moment of decision </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">after another, moment by </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">unconscious moment. And</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">once in awhile a moment opens </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">into an eternity of meaning, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">an infinity of depth, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and we know the soul </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">has become involved, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">engaged, made a choice, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">not waffling or wobbling </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">but definite, clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">And those steady moments </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">are what see us clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In a moment of conscious</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">clarity I choose to be here</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and then to be not here</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">but Elsewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">I do not choose to torment
myself </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">with unconscious indecision </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">that the body expresses </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">as more suffering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The suffering is to give us
time </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and to get our attention.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">I have had enough and more than
enough of that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">I choose all of my life, free
and clear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Ambivalence outgrown, I am
fully alive and in love </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">with creation. When Nature
says, Well done, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">it can move me whole from here
to there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">And this is a decision </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">of an awakened soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">I do not want to be sabotaging
my direction</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">by making secret, untrusting
decisions</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">and graciously </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mt. Hood, from the top of my hill before </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">winding down the road into the hollow </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and up again to Wisdom House in Bear Haven </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and the Garden of Rosa Mystica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Trees, birds, flowers, Mt. Hood and dawn images are mine, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>top image is by Mary Batinich, Mt. Hood in Alla's eyes is by</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>John Jarman, black and white communion photo of the Philadelphia</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ordinations is from <b>Time Magazine</b>, color images of the 25th</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>anniversary of the ordinations at the Church of the Advocate</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>are by Carolyn Prescott, boat picture of </i><i>the family on Burntside Lake</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>near Ely, Minnesota was taken by Diane Sundell, and</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>the beautiful image of my mother-in-love Betty Campbell in Minnesota's</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>North Woods was taken by Bishop Fred Putnam, a family friend. </i><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>At the Airport on Our Way to England, May 1985 </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Falling in Love </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It begins with the eyes, usually,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or the voice— a look, a spark—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">something evokes a warmth,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a sweetness rising in the chest—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">attraction, the tone of skin or voice,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the fragrance of hair—a certain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">graceful way of moving—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but this is not love.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then you speak, and the stories</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">begin to amaze, arouse, delight you,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and admiration takes hold as</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a vibration of recognition</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between your minds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But this is not love.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then the proximity of time and lives</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brings you brushing softly around and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">course of things, and affection finds you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in each other’s energy fields, and you feel</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the heat of your bodies merging,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the shared smile or glance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the occasional hug in greeting or farewell,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">perhaps a light touch of lips</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on cheek or hand or lips.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is nearly love,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but not yet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, one moment when you are not</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">looking for it, you suddenly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bring your eyes around to meet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the eyes of this brave and wonderful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being before you, and you find</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you are in the presence of God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being beckoned by a miracle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to move forward and step off </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the known world with another soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">exactly like and impossibly unlike yourself,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it happens to both of you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This
is Phil Bozarth-Campbell, my beloved husband, also an Episcopal
priest and an astonishingly gifted musician (guitar and voice). Phil was
the most fun friend and best companion imaginable, and he was both my
playmate and soulmate. We were married on September 12, 1971, four
days after my ordination to the diaconate. On December 9, 1985, at the
age of 37, he died suddenly of massive pulmonary thromboses from a
genetic blood clotting disorder we didn't know he had~ Factor V Leiden
Thrombophilia. Whereas hemophilia causes unstoppable bleeding,
thrombophilia causes unstoppable clotting, though unlike hemophilia, it
happens spontaneously, suddenly, and sometimes only once, but that one
time can be fatal. One of the triggers is a virus (which, his
physician explained to me, can go anywhere in the body it wants to),
and another trigger is physical injury. Phil had mild sniffles at the
time, and a traumatic injury to his upper nasal passage during a
physical exam three weeks earlier. Apparently the combined factors
triggered a cascade of clots that killed him within minutes while he
was preparing to go to work one Monday morning. The disorder was
unknown until 1994 when it was officially named and described, with
diagnostic criteria and tests following. </span></span><div><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Because the disorder was first recognized and studied there, it is named after the Dutch city of Leiden, which is the birthplace of the great 17th century painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. Phil's siblings also
inherited the disorder, but not in the homozygous form from both of
their parents as Phil did. The homozygous factor from both parents
increases the likelihood of the disorder activating to fatal
proportions by 500% over inheriting from just one parent. Though
their chances of experiencing an episode of severe clotting are
greatly lower than Phil's, his siblings now prevent it simply by
taking one baby aspirin a day. Had we but known!</span></span><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Phil and Alla Hugging the Light </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> through Each Other's Eyes</b></span></span><div><p align="left" class="MsoTitle" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Photography Means Light‑writing— <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoTitle" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Picture of a Soul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">The body,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">a brief visitor,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">a moment’s miracle,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">a material gift<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">in the trade<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">of dancing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">particle and wave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">Light, captured<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">by melanin into<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">the black hole<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">of the body,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">escapes, becomes<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">itself again,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">leaving the body,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">beloved’s body,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">in a burst<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">beyond ecstasy:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">This picture I took<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">of you in Wildwood<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">by the river sitting<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">in the dead body<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">of a cedar stump,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">arms thrown open,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">head upward, exultant,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">sundrenched with<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">the forest, alive,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">your whole being<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">hugging the Light!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;">Alla Renée Bozarth<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="background-color: #f8eeff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin-left: 2.5in;"><b>This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, </b><b>Lament and Praise</b>, iUniverse 2003, and <b>This is My Body— Praying for Earth, </b><b>Prayers from the Heart</b>, iUniverse 2004</p></div><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5mdgVnPdjVo/T7AzFUSTewI/AAAAAAAABOs/9j85GFObW08/s1600/Alla+Hugging+the+Light+at+Wildwood+1981.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5mdgVnPdjVo/T7AzFUSTewI/AAAAAAAABOs/9j85GFObW08/s200/Alla+Hugging+the+Light+at+Wildwood+1981.jpg" width="193" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RnEozYt4O2s/TrG6hngJYZI/AAAAAAAAAEg/TqnFNkiYqkQ/s1600/Phil+Hugging+the+Light+at+Wildwood+1981.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RnEozYt4O2s/TrG6hngJYZI/AAAAAAAAAEg/TqnFNkiYqkQ/s200/Phil+Hugging+the+Light+at+Wildwood+1981.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A
few years before he left his Earth body and spacetime, Phil and I took
pictures of each other sitting in this beautiful old red cedar tree's
lap, the only remaining part of it. Around it in the forest are
burnt-out stumps of trees struck by lightning. Every summer hundreds of
thousands of acres of National Forest catch fire from lightning strikes.
I read in a recent issue of <i>Discover Magazine </i>that fire is not
a thing but an event, or more accurately, a process. Heating anything
produces vapors that rapidly mingle with oxygen to produce more heat.
As matter, born of photons of light and the even smaller neutrinos,
everything will in time recycle back into those primal forms of
energy. Earth to Earth, Light to Light, Soul to Divine Mystery, Loving
Spirit to Everywhere Love Is. "Most of the fuels we use derive their
energy from trapped solar rays," says the article about Fire. "In
photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of
wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and
heat. So a bonfire is basically a tree running in reverse." The body
reverses itself and returns to fire, which in turn produces water by
condensation. Everything returns to Source elements. Everything
participates in the ongoing cycle of creation as composition,
decomposition, recomposition, and Light hides in the colors and shapes
of matter, then cycles beyond visibility into Light again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
first saw Phil through the window of a door to a sanctuary~ He was
playing guitar and singing in the seminary chapel the first month of his
three years of studies there. The Anglican priest musician Ian Mitchell
was visiting from England and was singing his liturgical compositions
for <i>The Jazz Mass. </i>I heard the music from down the hallway
outside the closed chapel doors. I had come for an errand in the library
but as soon as I heard the vibrant music, it drew me. I stood outside
and looked through the window to where a noonday Eucharist was in
progress. I saw the two musicians, Ian and Phil to his right in front of
the first pew on the left, the Gospel side, facing the congregation. My eyes were instantly drawn to the tall young man with a dark beard and pony
tail. His whole face glistened as if sparkling light were reflecting off
eye glasses or water, but he was not wearing eye glasses, nor was he
perspiring. The radiance started from his eyes and filled his whole
face. His whole being vibrated with the strings of the instrument he
played. It was as if I were seeing his energy in its raw essence,
vibrating with the spheres of the Universe, light made visible as color and color made audible as music. I was transported outside of
spacetime into a place of recognition, of knowing, what some would call
love at first sight, though it was an entirely transpersonal love.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few weeks later after another noon liturgy we were both standing in
front of those same doors in the hallway together. Our beloved mutual friends were there, too, Mark and Sharon Engle, and they introduced us to each other. One of them said that we should do something fun together. Phil suggested that we go bowling, but
before he could register the thinly disguised dismay on my face, our beloved mutual friends intervened and jointly said, "Oh, we
should all go to a movie and dinner together tonight, the four of us,"
and Phil and I agreed at once! </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That was sometime between October and early January. We were both preoccupied with our studies, reading and writing papers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We saw each other only occasionally until January 14,
when I happened to be having dinner with a friend in the seminary
refectory. Phil was leaving and as he passed our table and greeted me
warmly I asked, "Phil, do you know 'Here Comes the Sun?' " He said, "Sure,
come on up and I'll play it for you." He played his guitar, like the one in
the first of two guitar images below, which he would later name Veronica, meaning True Image, after I'd told him that when I expected to be a nun I would have chosen Veronica for my name in religious life. </span></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That first night, he played for two hours and for most of that
time I danced to his music. Later, someone dropped by to invite us to her place to
hear Andrew Lloyd Weber's <i>Jesus Christ Superstar. </i>Phil joined me
in an interpretive dance response to the music. Afterward we were
cooling off and Phil was rubbing my sore neck. Then he gently kissed the
nape of my neck right at the top of my spine. That was it. Then it was
love, and it was personal. Love at first touch. From then on we were deeply connected and in love, even when life stressed and stretched us apart. We still are.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That winter I attended the noonday Eucharist several times. One
time, Phil was serving at the altar as acolyte. He was standing under a
long narrow window through which sunlight was pouring in and dancing
around him. At one point the priest celebrant was carrying the paten
with the consecrated Host (a circular disc of unleavened bread) on it
for Holy Communion. He forgot something and turned around to go back to
the altar. Phil was right there, praying or daydreaming and not paying
attention. The priest suddenly put the paten in Phil's hands.
Phil was startled into full consciousness . . . and a look between
awkward dismay and wonderment came over him as the light played on the
silver plate, the paten, so that it glistened and reflected back onto
Phil's face. That's when the poem, "Host," was born. It describes how I experience Phil's essence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Host</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>for Phil</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Standing at
Christ-Table</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Servant of Joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Into your hands is
given the Body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Splendid and holy,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You standing holding
Love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As if It were fragile</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or as if you were
with Its weight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In only your two
hands.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The window dances
noonlight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Down over your
shoulders</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the silver paten
cradling God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shines Christ-Sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on your smiling body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christ-Sun on your
worshipping face.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>This is My Body--</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Praying for Earth,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Prayers from the Heart</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>iUniverse 2004<b> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phil's Ordination to the priesthood</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">March 25, 1974</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Deacons Phil and Alla after his ordination to the diaconate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Flight</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“What is happening </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in the universe?”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“People are dying.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“Why???”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“In order to become
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>intimate with the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Turning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when Earth faces</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">among those stones</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flying through space</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Only bodily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I a bird</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">passed through flame</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the first not-time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a living crystal </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of our love.</span></span></div>
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<b id="yiv8584222011yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1523150873112_33284"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and the shining stars streaming you through</span></b></div>
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<b id="yiv8584222011yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1523150873112_33287"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the whole map of heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b id="yiv8584222011yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1523150873112_33296"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">proud and free with the sun’s golden blessing,</span></b></div>
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<b id="yiv8584222011yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1523150873112_33299"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and carry you, safe and well</span></b></div>
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<b id="yiv8584222011yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1523150873112_33302"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and all the way home.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And nearly 40 years later~</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think of my Beloved now, with me and beyond me, always both, as the
Holy One is both within and beyond all that is, in the language of
those encompassing theological words, both Immanent and Transcendent
Mystery. I experienced Phil's transfiguration and the return of the
elements he borrowed from Earth's body for his own as his natural
spiritual evolution, culminating in spacetime as the birth of a
full-grown star into an expansive and transforming supernova event. <i>And
we, with unveiled faces, reflecting as in a mirror the glory of the
Holy One, are being transformed into God's image from glory to Glory. </i>2 Corinthians 3:18</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>Love After Death</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i> </i></b><i>for Phil</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marrying you was the best thing I ever did in all my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You were that embodied star, that celestial sparkle </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">seen only once </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">in a lifetime, and the moment I looked, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">I saw and claimed you for my own.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You gave music to my dance, you taught me your song, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you gave me my own true self, you showed me </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the essence of two, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">you gave me the natural world, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">you gave me to life </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">and all future history and time </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">to live it clear through.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People think you left that day when </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">suddenly </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">your physical breath stopped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I alone know how deeply and truly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you are here, more present than before,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even as I go on missing the parts of you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that are no more accessible to my senses.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You became the best husband on Earth,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and we both fought hard to make it so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now you are the best husband in Heaven,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Heaven is within all that is, streaming light </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through all our awareness, giving us voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to raise our thanksgivings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I feel you beyond the temporal touch of the body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">see you without its eyes, hear you most strongly</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without ears, taste your honeyed spirit lifting from tears,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">smell the scent of your pleasure without an olfactory nerve,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">love you in your everywhere, know you loving me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into eternity while still in my skin and right here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are not vague. You are precise, but still moving so</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">quickly, as when I first saw you, that comet streak,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that glint of fire through glass, that gleam in the mind of God.</span></span></div>
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<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_13388" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Conversation with My Husband<br />an Hour after His So-called Death</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_13388" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_13388" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874">Can we talk, or will it distract you<br />from your first day (so to speak)<br />of Heaven School? I know you have<br />other people to visit, too . . . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i>Sure, we can talk!<br />I can do it all at the same <br />time ("so to speak").</i><br /><br />How is that?<br /><br /><i>Well, you know how<br />we critters are created in God's image?</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i> </i><br />Yes. At least I know <b><span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> </b>we are.<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i>And you know how God is Spirit,<br />and so are we, as well as body, mind and soul?</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i> </i><br />Yes. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><br /><i>And you know how God's Spirit can be<br />everywhere at once?</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i> </i><br />Yes . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><br /><i>Well?</i><br />Oh!<span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_147" style="font-style: italic;"> <br /><b>That's</b></span><b> </b>how~</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Okay. Then tell me~<br />What's it like?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><br /><i>I can't tell you</i></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_10232"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_10231">—</span></span> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span>As you said in your talk, </span></i></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span>“Dance
for Me When I Die,” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i>you have no frame<span> </span>of reference.</i><br /><br />Bother. Then give me an <b><span style="font-style: italic;">as if</span></b></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_10232"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_10231">—</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><i>It's <span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_9000" style="font-style: italic;">as if</span> all the best is <br />happening<span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_92" style="font-style: italic;"> now </span>~</i><br /><br /><i>And you have the feeling<br />that there's always more</i></span></span></span><i><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5903"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5902">— </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_62" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><i><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_62" style="font-style: italic;">And there is </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">!</span><br /> </span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><i><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874">You're gonna love it, Honey~<br />It's <span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_13178" style="font-weight: bold;">Cosmic Wow</span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_13949" style="font-weight: bold;">!</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><i><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_5874"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_13949" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></i><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><br />Oooo~ </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293">Tell me <i>another <b>as if</b></i></span></span></span></span><i><b><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32">—</span></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293">What are our new bodies like?<br /><br /><i>This is hardly close, but the best I can do<br />to help you get a feel for it is to tell you<br />to imagine that your body and mine<br />are made of light and color and music,<br />and a kind of radiant wind <br />that moves through them.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><br /><i>They are not limited to time and place<br />but can be in many and anywhere at once.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><br />And how can it be? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><br /><i>These bodies are spirit bodies, </i></span></span></span></span></span><i><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><i><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293">which sounds contradictory but isn't,<br />for isn't that what the bodies of angels<br />and the Holy One are, outside of space and time? <br /><br />As God is infinite, incomprehensible, indescribable<br />Beauty past beauty, Motion past motion, Light past light,<br />and as we go back into God and God enters us wholly,</span></span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><i><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293">as bubble opens to take in the iridescent sea</span></span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"> — </span><br />so do we open and become such Beauty, Motion and Light</span></span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_32"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_294"><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_293"><span>S</span>o do we . . . <br /><br /><i>And when those bodies of light and color and music<br />embrace, yours even now by mine in our souls' bond, <br />we are in the depths of Beauty and Mystery and Peace. <br />All ways.</i><br /><br /><i>Because you can imagine a little of this reality even now,<br />since all creation is constantly embraced by the Larger Life <br />and is in the process of Waking Up to it~</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><i><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_138"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2925" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_136"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_10234">you must take your
time</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_7_1383456248761_584">,</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span><span><i><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_10233"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2928" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_10232"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and plenty of it, because </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><i><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_10231"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2931" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_10230"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">you were right about this~ </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span><i><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128" style="font-style: italic;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44">You have to practice for Paradise.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128" style="font-style: italic;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128" style="font-style: italic;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128" style="font-style: italic;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> Alla Renée </i>Bozarth</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><b id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_108"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_107">The Frequency of Light</span></b><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104"> </span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104">Copyright 201<span>5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104">Below~ <b>Butterfly Nebula and Butterfly Nebula </b></span><b><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104">Wings </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span><span><span><span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104">(or m<span>y name for them: </span><i>Cosmic Wow Kisses</i>!)<span>~ from the</span> </span><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_10_1383300119274_104">Hubble Space Camera</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Love Poem to My Husband on His 61<sup>st</sup>
Birthday<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">When the Eye of Osiris fell from the heavens, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the earth sang and the mountains danced.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Eye of Osiris </b>by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>R.
Austin Freeman </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the sunlight was
born in my soul</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">a new galaxy was
born in the heavens</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">humanity was born
all over again,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">and God came into
the world with a song</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the planet increased
in soul growth</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">by exponential
splendor</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the promise of peace
quivered</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">with new
possibilities</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Life and Love and
Wellness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">were newborn in my
world </span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">a fragile secret
became</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">an astonishing gift</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">my life was made
perfect</span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">the Face of God wore</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> a supernova
smile<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">On the day you were
born</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">our wedding was set
and our marriage </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">was sealed in the
stars</span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128" style="font-style: italic;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44"><i>Alla Renée </i>Bozarth</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44">The Frequency of Light</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7252"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2934" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_7251"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383449396762_11595"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_8_1383449396762_16"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_5164"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1383456248761_2936" id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_1_1383452822991_11175"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_128"><span id="yiv5663337550yui_3_13_0_7_1383452822991_44">Copyright 2015 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Have to Practice for </b><b>Paradise</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">You have to practice</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">for </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Paradise</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The music of sweet </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">forgiveness,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">the colors of love,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">the poetry of gratitude, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">the dance of pure bliss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">And the food! the food </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">that needs your soul’s </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">palate at its highest </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">pitch of receptivity </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to be sensitive to such </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">delicate, deep flavors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">You can’t keep postponing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">your real life.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">You can’t keep renting </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">your experience,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">giving yourself only </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">in half doses,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">a provisional presence, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">a bit player</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">in your own existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Give it all you’ve got </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">You must empty and cleanse</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">your glass each time</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to be able to fill it again</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">with everything fresh </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Let go of attachment</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and no longer identify</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">with merely your ego, your body.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Don’t dismiss Reality</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">just because it’s too weird </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to be true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Go deeper to where the meaning is,
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">where the mystery lives. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">You can only describe it </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">in <i>as ifs</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Real bears don’t speak English. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Real angels don’t have feathers or
faces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">But we draw them </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">by our own lines of connection </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to be able to relate beyond
ourselves </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and understand ourselves and them </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">through them and with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">A fairy tale almost always </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">has the facts wrong, but </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">if you insist</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">on just the facts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">you may miss the truth.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Listen to the Mystery</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">call your name. It will be</span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I went walking through your mind again today.</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I’ve been walking there a lot lately.</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(Have you heard me tiptoe past your consciousness?)</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Down the hallway of your contemplation</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I walk ~softly~ sharing in the image—</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the garden of your joy</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I dance ~rejoicing~ with the Light of God. </b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the cathedral of your dreams</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I stand ~awed~ overcome by their beauty.</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the sanctuary of your love</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I kneel ~humbly~ and see God smiling</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">At us.</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And then ~through your eyes</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I see myself</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And through my eyes ~which I see through yours~</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I see you.</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And our eyes and our images</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And our love</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Melt into eternity</b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv4552684270" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In each other.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Mt. Hood Wedding at Mt. Resurrection September 12, 1971</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The bride's mother Alvina deGolikov Bozarth, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my Goddaughter Veronica Smith,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Alla, Phil, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the groom's mother and father Betty and Doug Campbell </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phil's father and my mother held the traditional Russian Wedding Crowns over our heads as we said our vows to each other. Traditionally the crowns are made of precious jewels, but Phil's handiwork the night before crafted Nature's jewels into our wedding day rose crowns. Phil also designed our </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rings, etching a fish which the goldsmith copied~ the symbol used by early Christians to identify themselves because the Greek letters comprising it were an anagram for <i>Jesus Christ ~ God</i>. Our wedding fish, however, was comprised of the Roman letters <b>ALLELUIA</b>,<b> </b>which was the theme of our </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">marriage. The root of the word is the ancient word for what in English we call God. Al, El, Allah, Elohim, all mean the Essence, the One Who Is, the Great Mystery, or more literally, the Great Mysterious. Alleluia means Praise to the One Who Is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My father, René Malcolm Bozarth, officiated. Here he has wrapped the stole around our hands and is blessing our marriage. This custom gives the expression, "tying the knot." It was a Sunday afternoon. Three years later Phil and I would wear the same vestment at our ordinations to the priesthood, his on March 25, mine on July 29, 1974.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My mother painstakingly designed and created our wedding clothes and her own,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>making full use of her professional training as a designer and tailor in Russia which<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>allowed her to come to Canada and the United States with a worker's visa in 1928.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My gown is a 17th century Russian costume worn by the Boyars, a class of the ruling<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>nobility. Phil's wedding shirt is likewise of that period. Though she was unwell, my</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">devoted mother also made a full trousseau of beautiful dresses for all occasions for me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our mothers threw rose petals at us as we drove off to the Coast for some rest and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>quiet rejoicing and a little guitar music with singing and dancing on the beach<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>among the seagulls. . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phil's parents drove from Minneapolis to Sandy, Oregon for our September wedding,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and we did it all over again (but without the crowns) in Phil's maternal grandmother's</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">classical living room overlooking Lake Harriet and the Rose Gardens in Minneapolis<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>in December. No half-day spent in the beauty parlor for back-combing this time,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I did my own hair. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The retired bishop of Minnesota, Hamilton Kellogg, was famous for his speaking<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>voice which sounded so much like W. C. Fields it was difficult to wait for the punch<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>line before laughing when he told me a story at the reception which began with a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>rhetorical question: "Do you like preaching? I hear you were ordained a few days<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>before your wedding, so I wondered if you liked preaching. I like it, myself. . . .<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Was on an airplane recently when the flight attendant referred to me as Father.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>'Make that <i>Bishop</i>, m'Dear,' I told her. 'You're a bishop?' she asked. 'Where's your pectoral cross then?' " Here in his narrative he solemnly pulled open his jacket to reveal his original style which you will see by looking carefully in the lower portion of the photograph. "I patted my cross and said, 'Don't wear one, m'Dear. Wear a navel cross. Wear a navel cross.' "</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is saying those words and just about to pat it again when a guest took this picture.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Phil's only sister Betsy is laughing beside us, though whether from overhearing the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>conversation between the bishop and the bride or engaged in a funny one of her own I do not know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phil and I were very grateful to our families and friends, among them especially to Phil's close friend John<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>McLaughlin and my close friend Thea Brown for singing at our wedding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And us, singing "Follow Me"~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After my ordination to the diaconate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the Cathedral of St. Stephen four days before the wedding</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We were very happy. Later we would go through the dramas and comedies<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>that most married people need to experience in order to create depth and breadth<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and all that goes into a marriage achieved. In the end I knew for certain that<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>marrying<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Phil was the best thing I ever did, for countless reasons. We helped each other grow<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>into our true and best selves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through the years ahead, sorrows shared were sorrows halved and joys shared were joys doubled . . .<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>as we created our life together~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We read out loud to each other every night before bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We fought, we cried, mostly, we laughed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Always there was music. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was the honeymoon of the ocean</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the land where mountains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">leaped forward to say I do</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the ring of fire at once</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lit up beneath</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sea, where otters lay</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on their opulent backs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sunbathed their bellies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while casually breaking open</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a shell of freshness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for breakfast</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the fellow on the beach</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was singing to his bride</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and strumming his guitar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to which she danced circles</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around him, the sand quivering</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beneath her toes and seagulls</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">descended in neat even rows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to listen, transfixed, but when</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the groom stopped and the bride</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stopped also, the gulls rustled and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">squawked their disapproval~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for they had discovered how to make light</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">come up from the inside of earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the same way that it came</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of song</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and they did not want it to stop,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not ever, ever</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to stop</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through their feet </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the sheets of air</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around them ~ </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for they were a chorus </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">themselves and knew</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that the secret of life </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">repeat, repeat ourselves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but with great or small important variations </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">summer month at Camp Van Vac </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> on Burntside Lake near Ely, Minnesota.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The bride behind him in red would give birth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Rev. Phil Bozarth-Campbell</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Rector of St. George's Episcopal Church</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> St. Louis Park, Minnesota 1975-1985</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at St. George's Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and now on my study door at Wisdom House, Sandy, Oregon. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below, my father, René Malcolm Bozarth, Phil Bozarth-Campbell and me</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Twenty-four years after my father died</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I found a letter he’d written to me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when I was away at university, going on</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forty years ago. Here is my elaboration</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of the sense of it:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I was in a store, one of those kitchen boutique</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>places, two stories deep with one sealed window</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>high up in a corner. A hummingbird flew in</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>through the door, and, frantic and disoriented, attempted</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to escape by means of that unopening window.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>People panicked in helpless sympathy for the bird.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I began to coo to it, moved slowly and held out my hand.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Miraculously, the creature came down and allowed me</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to rescue it. I felt its terrified heart beating in my palm</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>with such creature kinship as we two moved slowly</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>toward the open door, and I released it, joyful, triumphant</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as it flew toward the sun. . . </i><i>I felt quite Franciscan . . .</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How long it takes to wait for the hummingbird to hover in front</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of one’s lens, luminous purple and shimmering fuchsia blooming</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around it. Unless one is a bear, how long it takes to pick enough</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blackberries for a substantial cobbler, all morning to walk the roadside</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or out to the middle of the pasture where the foxes live, and ask</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">permission to take one after another carefully from the bush,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so as not to mix in blood with berry juice, or take away </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a painful, thorny memento. A bear could take all morning, too,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">filling her furry oven until she falls into the grass in a drunken noonday</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">slumber, while sweet, dark purple pearls of fruit inside her turn</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from berries into bear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To become composed as that dozing creature, to become composed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a Turner seascape with turbulent light in the sky, churning energy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from within made visible in heart-raising color, yet whole, complete</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to itself. To become. Finally, something like color, something like music, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">something like wind— something like light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From birth we are told to become something else, or less, or more—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">become calm, little baby, become composed, young man or young lady.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Become more disciplined. Become more tidy. Become less anxious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Become yourself. Become your best self! Become all you can be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Become— and this is the soul-killing one— become punctual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the quick trip through time, I do not want to be distressed by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tyranny of calendars and clocks, but unmolested by haste, free. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>kind</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to watch the weather become better </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">after a week of heaviness and heat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to notice how a poem or painting </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or music becomes<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>a composite, while its human </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">conduit is taking a shower, walking uphill</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in rain, reading the paper, visiting a friend. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to be immersed in living,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">drench myself in life, become aware </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of its detail, like the awesome precision</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a classical painting or polyphonic fugue, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or a blue morph butterfly wing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to become alert to the distinct voices </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the late afternoon concert—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the cricket, the frog, the goat and the dog, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the crow and the goldfinch,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with bright water falling over rock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to become tuned to them, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">join them with my own mammalian noises</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sounds, sighs and laughter, even with singing. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to hear deeply<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>when it’s time to become </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">light again, return like the sated bear to the earth,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dissolve back into the Great Mother womb of creation, become that original thing, that hiding photon, that </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wisp of air across the skin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then my friends can inhale my presence,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">find me in what they see when they open their eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the day, to the night, when our beings mingle, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">light to light. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>How Dying Works</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It takes different </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">degrees of time </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for each soul </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to ripen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When it is ready </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to drop from one </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dimension into another, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sac of matter </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dies away from it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to release it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spinning or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">throwing forth or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flowing or sliding </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">away, the sac returns </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to earth, air, fire </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and water, and when </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earth herself dies </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everything here </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will go back </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into stars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, the individual </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soul being born into </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a new form becomes </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a kind of supernova </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">star, gigantic, beautiful, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">devastatingly bright, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hot with Godfire </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as it explodes into </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other souls who vibrate </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to this light’s same music </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through love or likeness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">become opened, and by </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">magnetic resonance and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">attraction, shards </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the dying person’s </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">soulfire pierce the souls </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So we say our hearts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are broken and we do not </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">know ourselves for a time, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while we incorporate these </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">piercings of the beloved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is why it hurts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and this is how we become </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">opened and larger and lighter </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">these shards within us </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The more we lose, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the more open, large and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bright we become.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we explode </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the Infinite </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are more than ourselves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">already. We are many. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are all who have become </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a part of us in love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all who will become. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heaven is not a <i>there</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heaven is not <i>somewhere</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">streaming through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>This Mortal Marriage: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Poems of Love, Lament and Praise</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Going to Heaven Like a Bee, </b><b>Like a Fish, Like a Bird<span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Learning to track ground lightning</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of the soul.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">of change with elegant ease—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">to all the Unknown: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Earth to Water, Water to Fire, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Fire to Air, Air to the divine Body.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and do the completely ordinary </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">impossible thing —</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">take off, dive in, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">to fly through deep waters </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">and swim in the sky—</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"> From <b>This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love,</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: black;"> Lament and Praise</span></b><span style="color: black;">, iUniverse 2003.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May you be launched in fair weather,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the shining stars streaming you through</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and carry you, safe and well </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all the way home.<i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, Lament and Praise</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iUniverse 2003, and <b>Postcards from Paradise</b>,<b> </b>copyright 2011 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fall comes </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you remember—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Winter comes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you remember—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spring comes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you remember—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The thousand moments</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of sharing the same</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dimensions, meanings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and memories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The heart beats</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the seasons,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each one in rhythm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with the Beloved’s Name, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because you know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that to remember is to honor </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and to continue to live and be able </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to pass love forward in your own name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You do not need to get over the loss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the meaning of loss into your ongoing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">life and the love you live out— until </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">memory will no longer be needed, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because you are together again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and healed of the need for memory </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all at once everywhere Now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Love’s Alchemy</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eleven months after Phil's death I made a pilgrimage to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the Holy Land, went out in a small boat to give some of Phil's ashes to the Sea of Galilee<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and then went up to the Mount ofBeatitudes of leave some of his small bone fragments</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beneath a eucalyptus tree. The next day in Jerusalem I was alone in this room of<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>a thousand year old mosque where the Last Supper is commemorated, above a room where King David's Tomb is said to be. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I went home to the ocean, ancient forests, Columbia River Gorge waterfalls and Mt. Hood in the Cascade Mountains to pray and dance<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>in those holy places and let the Grace of Nature heal me. </span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lacey shadows of light at Hay Stack Rock,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Cannon Beach, Oregon two days before my<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>50th birthday~ receiving the blessing of<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Heaven<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and Earth~ in Water, Wind and Light. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today I went into the
archival vault of my closet and found the perfect dress<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>to wear tomorrow for my
birthday party at the Black Rabbit Restaurant<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>with friends, Constance and
Carol.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sticking material placed
on the hanger by the dry cleaners had disintegrated<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>completely, but the dress
was perfect. Flowing black crepe with an elegant ankle flare at the side seams
and an overlay of transparent chiffon,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>pink rose clusters with
leaves. After fifteen years since last wearing, all it needed was ironing.
Also, I pulled out the black suede pumps so elegantly designed,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>an antique gold wreath at the
toe with a shiny black stone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And what earrings? Antique
gold to integrate with the shoes?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No, my face needs more
brightness. The bright brass dangling sagaris!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>They dance when I move and
talk, and twirl when I laugh<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span>But they need to be polished.
Brass polishing is hard. It takes muscles and time. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>While I’m at it, I’ll
polish these other brass things that have bothered me—<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>A plate stand spattered with
hard water spots that have tarnished,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>from boiling water being
poured nearby for coffee or tea.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>And Papa’s chiming clock on
the bookcase.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carrying the clock to the
kitchen I realize I’ve never before polished it.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I remember how the clock
maker who worked on it for a year had wanted<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>to buy it and offered me a
good price, but I refused saying, “Would you sell<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>a clock that had belonged to
your father and was all you had left of him?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brass polishing is a
meditative job. I see now why altar guild ladies<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>emphasize<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the spiritual
practice of polishing brass candlesticks<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and Gospel stands, and with
what love they polish the wood railing and pews.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Suddenly I see my husband at
the altar St. George’s Church, leading worship<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>on Easter Eve, light the
Paschal Fire at the back of the dark church<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>in a brass bowl, touching his
candle to the fire to light the paschal candle,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>then beginning the long,
solemn procession up the center aisle, leading<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the chant sung antiphonally,
first on low notes, then progressively higher,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>“Light of Christ!” and the
congregational response on the same notes,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>"Thanks be to God!” All of
the candles were lit from the paschal fire,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>stopping at each pew so that
the worshipper on the ends could step out<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and dip his or her wick into
the paschal candle, then light the candle<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>of the next person in his or
her pew and passing the flame this way<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>until everyone present was
holding the Light of Christ ~ Thanks be to God!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>After all the Scripture
readings had been voiced beginning with the Story<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>of Creation and ending with
the Burial of Christ, everything was illuminated<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and the music began, the
movement hastened, the Full Eucharist began,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and the Gospel reading
brought us to the empty tomb at dawn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All day on Holy Saturday,
after the altar had been stripped following<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the Last Supper and foot
washing service on Holy Thursday, the ladies, and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>by then, also gentlemen of
the altar guild worked hard to prepare everything—<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>cleaning, polishing,
renewing, pressing hard on tarnish as I am now.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>How handsome and satisfied
with life and all that was holy Phil was<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>on the Holy Day of Days,
standing taller than ever at the altar<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>with arms uplifted in
welcome, praise and thanksgiving. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The heavy gold, white and red
vestments hung well on his tall slender body.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>He twinkled all over with the
glory of God, a man fully alive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In those last years he wore
the purple leather jacket I’d given him<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>for Christmas on high holy
days, his personal celebratory vestment,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and he wore his best black
leather dress shoes under his formal vestments<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>instead of the cowboy boots
he was known for. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remember how lovingly Phil
would undertake his own polishing ritual, bringing out the multitude of leather
boots and shoes of all sorts from the floor of his double closet, how he
caressed and smelled the leather before he’d begin to work on each pair, how
excited he was to go into a leather store and stand at the door, close his eyes
and inhale appreciatively before going in to browse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After over a quarter century
of being without him, I do these small rituals<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>of thankful reverence, and
delight in the sensual beauties of creation for him,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>aware with him of the life
exchange between creatures, wood that is the body<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>of trees, the cows and other
animals whose lovely skin continues to cover<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the bodies of human animals
after the original owner’s spirit has left its bones. This is Divine Home
Economics: nothing is wasted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ve kept Phil’s purple
jacket. It is a muted, masculine color, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">elegantly cut as everything
he chose and he himself was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From time to time, I open the
closet, stroke the leather arms, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lay my chin against its soft
cool skin and inhale it with thanks </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the animal who once made
and lived in it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and for the man who later
wore it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recently, a friend asked me
playfully, “How’d you get to be so adorable?”<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I answered her quite
seriously, “I married Phil. He rubbed off on me,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and I know I rubbed off
positively on him somehow as well, because<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>he said so. . . . But from
where I live, he gave me more than I could ever give.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>If I’m adorable, it’s because
he helped me become a real person.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“He gave me the big push for
all the years of our life together</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that turned me into my best
self. Everyday, Phil is right here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hug me, there’s a big angel
man spirit hugging you back,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>right along with the small me
that you feel and see.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Love makes everyone
adorable.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I found this line in the same poetry</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">collection, <b>The Frequencies of Sound,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It fits Christ in the Easter garden and Phil, too,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on Earth in past tense and from Heaven in the present:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>You sang down heaven and gave
us the sound of resurrection.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This piece is below the title, <i>Dance for Me When I Die </i>on the Interview, Books and Reviews entry</b>. <b>Not everyone<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>who reads this blog will see it there, so I'm posting it here as well.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/2011/11/alla-interview-books-and-reviews.html">http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/2011/11/alla-interview-books-and-reviews.html</a><span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Dance for Me When I Die: Death as a Rite of Passage</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is the title of Alla’s address to the Minnesota Coalition </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on Terminal Care, November 1985, three weeks before </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her own husband Phil’s sudden death. The following story </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is of course not on the tape, but explains its significance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were about 500 professional people in the room—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oncologists, surgeons, nurses and nurse practitioners, hospice<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>workers,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>therapists, grief counselors, funeral directors and clergy.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>At the end of the talk, I led a guided imagery meditation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I invited the individuals present to close their eyes and visualize<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>something or someone they were ready to and needed to let go of,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and to bathe the image in gold light. . . . Then I asked them to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>visualize the image diminishing and finally dissolving into the light<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>while they said, “I bless you, I release you— I set you free, I set<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>me free— I let you be, I let me be.” Then I asked them to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>imagine that they themselves were being bathed in soothing pink<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>light flecked with gold. The gold was meant to represent Divine<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Grace and the pink to represent Divine Compassion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phil was sitting on a center aisle seat toward my right from the podium<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and about three rows back, and the co-keynote speaker, Comparative Religions scholar Huston Smith, was directly behind him. During my talk,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>both of them, Huston much older than Phil, had radiant smiles on their<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>faces as they leaned forward from time to time, as if it was all they could do to keep from saying “Yes!” or “Oh!” out loud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the way home in the car I asked Phil if he would feel all right<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>about telling me what he let go of during the meditation. He said,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>“I let go of the last vestige of my lack of self-acceptance.” Phil also<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>told me that I had been his priest and a source of spiritual counsel and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>wisdom throughout our marriage, as of course he had been for me, which<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I told him in turn. Then Phil said,“It's because of your relentless acceptance of me that I've finally been able to accept myself.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unknown to us, in this way we had experienced our own workshop for his departure from space and time three weeks later. What more healing and beautiful preparation could one have than complete self-acceptance?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On December 8, Phil called me. We'd been talking so much on then<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>expensive long distance that we'd agreed to wait four days until Wednesday for our next visit, but Phil called the next day, Sunday,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the First Sunday of Advent. He was too excited and happy to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>wait. He wanted to tell me all about the Advent service that morning.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Everything was gorgeous~ the altar, the flowers, the music. He sang<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and played his guitar with the choir. His sermon was called, "What<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>are You Waiting For," and he was very pleased with it. I delighted<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>in hearing and imagining all this. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I said, "I'm so glad you called because I wanted more than anything to call you and tell you something. I read in the Sunday<i> Parade </i>magazine this morning. Toward the end of Franklin's life, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote him a love note and tucked it in his coat pocket for him to carry around. It said, 'You are the best husband in the world.' I wanted to say that to you, Phil. For all our years together you've worked hard and you gave me the courage to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>work hard with you so that we could truly achieve marriage together. Now I can say it to you with all my heart, Phil. You Are the Best Husband on Earth." I could hear him purr . . </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When he had proposed to me on February 27, 1971, after a kiss good night in the front seat of my 1968 Plymouth Valiant, heasked rather casually, "Will you marry me some day, Hon?" And I even more casually grinned and said, "Uh huh," and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>kissed him again. Nearly fifteen years later on the telephone<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I playfully said, "Will you marry me someday, Hon?" and he<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>said, "Uh huh." Then in turn he asked, "Will you marry me?"<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and I exclaimed, "<b>YES!</b>" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While in Oregon I had gone Christmas shopping and wrapped presents for the family on December 6, St. Nicholas Day. They were in big canvas shopping bags and ready for my return trip around the 20th.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But on December 9, I was awakened from sleep by the telephone.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>It was Phil’s mom calling from the hospital to tell me that Phil had<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>just died. I had been dreaming. I dreamed that a man in a United<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Parcel Service uniform had asked me to witness and bless his saying<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Goodbye to the woman he loved. It was like a wedding, and later<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I realized that I was both priest and bride, and the groom was Phil,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>declaring his eternal love. And then the phone rang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was still half-asleep when I heard the words. I fell out of bed onto<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>my knees and wailed the single word, “NO!!” My mother-in-love said,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>“Call your neighbor right now.” My dear neighbor came and wept with me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then she called two other friends. Soon, three women were with me.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>One called our friends around the country, one packed and one drove me to the airport. I lay across three seats on the plane and quietly sobbed myself half asleep again. How else could I endure those horrible hours? The family and our friends Bob (our bishop) and Mary Anderson met me at the airport where less than two weeks earlier Phil’s bright loving eyes looked into mine and we blessed and kissed each other for the last time on Earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">next day and that Northwest Airlines had changed his Customs entry<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>city from Denver to Minneapolis. We accepted his invitation to meet<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>him at the airport and spend an hour with him at the gate before his<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>final flight home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phil had to leave for a meeting, and as we walked down the corridor<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>from the gate I said, “I forgot to tell Papa that I’m proud of him.”<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Phil said, “Call him tomorrow and tell him.” I turned and Papa was<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>watching us, so we smiled warmly and waved to each other. I let him<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>rest the next day and planned to call him the day after. That night,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>he died in his sleep. When I arrived at his place I saw my new book,<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello</i> on his nightstand. I’d inscribed an advance<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>copy for him and mailed it so it would be there when he got home.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>It said, “Thank you for all you have given, all you have taught me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Knowing that he’d read it as was his custom before sleep, I felt like<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>he’d hugged me from Heaven. I vowed never again to delay saying<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>words of praise when I felt them. And yes, I found the roll of film<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>still in his pocket and had it developed immediately. I enlarged and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>framed the picture he’d described in an antiqued gold frame. It was<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>on my wall for many years, an icon of his la<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s</span>t deep vision, one which<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>he experienced with the eyes of his soul and passed on to me as a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>beautiful legacy. I am so glad that we got to hear him describe it in<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>his own voice. . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The night of Phil’s death I sat in his big leather chair and remembered<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>that he had made his own recording of my talk three weeks earlier<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I put his tape recorder on my lap and played the closing meditation<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>as I visualized him lying on the beautiful emerald green carpet of our<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>living room, but I hadn’t anticipated what would happen when I pressed<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the “Play” button. Since the recorder had been in Phil’s lap during the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>meditation, his voice was the primary sound when those 500 people said,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>“I bless you, I release you— I set you free, I set me free— I let you be,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I let me be.” In that way, transcending time and space and death itself,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Phil and I said Goodbye to his body together. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
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</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and breathed each other’s breath—</span></b></span></div>
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</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">This sounds like the opening</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">of a tragic long love story,</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">but it comes after the ending</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">when nothing more can be said </span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">but a prayer, nothing more can be done </span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">but to sway with the invisible partner </span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">in middle of the night moonlight,</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">still swaying in a visible/invisible dance </span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">toward the dawn.</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It is the burden of bereavement</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">to live and not to die, but loving</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and longing, go on—</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">To discover ways to transform</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">despair into service and loss into wisdom,</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">this is the new goal of maturity—</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">the hope of humanity—</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Until the soul</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">grows out of the body </span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and back into Oneness</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">with God.</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span> </b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Diamonds in a
Stony Field</b></div>
</b><div class="MsoNormal">
Copyright 2013.</div>
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</div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What Jesus Really Said</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not much.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here—</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now—</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with you.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I see you,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God-in-you.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need to touch you.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need you to touch me.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need to be alone sometimes.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will not leave you alone.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Respect all beings.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be compassionate.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take risks to help others</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and to become your whole self.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be present in every moment.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love as fully as life allows.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lives as fully as love allows.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love you.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let yourself be loved.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Accept acceptance.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember me.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><b>Wisdom and Wonderment</b> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b>and <b>The Book of Bliss</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>____________________</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">On Pilgrimage</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Eleven months after he
died, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I took my husband’s
ashes</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">to Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">That capital city of
the Holy Land<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">was too noisy, too
crowded with<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the usual nations and
religions<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">vying for a claim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wanted peace and
beauty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">for my Beloved’s
earthly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">remains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">I went north, into the
Galilee,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">surrounded by
tree-green mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Out on the water in a
boat, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">I poured our mortal
life together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">His ashes went straight
down,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">deep, toward the ground
beneath<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the holy lake where
Rabbi Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">once fished with his
friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I went up to the
Mount of Beatitudes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and planted a small
remaining handful <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">of his mortal part our
actual marriage <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">in front of the church,
under a graceful <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">eucalyptus tree
overlooking the lake,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">called the Sea of
Galilee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Upon returning to
Jerusalem, I visited King David’s Tomb <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and the Upper Room
above it where the Last Supper <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">may have taken place. I
prayed with others who sang <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">in many foreign
languages together. The world<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">comes here, I thought,
grieving and rejoicing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the others left I
stayed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">My sandals came off and
I danced my own<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">give-away dance of
thanksgiving<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background: rgb(240, 242, 245); color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on the cold stone floor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">A streak of sunlight
through a high window<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">blessed my give-away of
grief on that day,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">though it would come in
new forms on other days<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">throughout my life.
Here it was blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I left the room a
friend was there waiting<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">in the hallway. She
told me that after the others<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">left, she stayed,
wanting to be sure I was all right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">She peaked around the
edge of the doorway and<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">watched, unknown to me,
and took a picture,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">a memorial of what I
did that day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally we went to the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">in the Old City. It is
not where Jesus was actually<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">buried because it is
still inside the city. The graves<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">were outside the walls
in the Garden Tomb, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">where I had already
visited.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Church of the Holy
Sepulcher commemorates<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the death of Christ in
a special mausoleum within. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was raised a few
steps above the main body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">People took turns going
in. I remained outside,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">exhausted. Looking
around at the masses of souls<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">from everywhere, I
suddenly saw a tall young man<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">with dark hair and a
beard who looked and moved <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">exactly as my Beloved
had looked and moved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Garamond",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">I sat on the steps and
cried.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">A new poem for Phil, in memory, from Alla with Love.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><b><b>New Poem for an Old Love</b></b><br />
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</b></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I will fall in
love with your poetry.<br />
I will fall in love with your music.<br />
I will fall in love with your light.<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">And I will mistake them for you . . .</span><br />
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And then after
fifty years of our eternity <br />
I will realize that I did not mistake them for you.<br />
They are you.<br />
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<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i>
~ </span>The Frequencies of Sound © 2017</b></span></span></span></div>
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Through hard times and happy, we grew each other <br />
into our best, and complete, selves.</span></b><b> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span>took the picture of Phil sitting in a tree stump at Wildwood, Oregon, and he<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>took the picture of me that is at the top of this blog's heading. We also took the pictures of each other at the ocean at Cannon Beach, Oregon. I took the photo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>of Hay Stack Rock on the same beach a few decades later, and Robin Carey took<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the photo of me with parasol standing in front of its moss-covered flank. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Various people took the other photos of Phil and us together. I took the pictures of the roses in my garden. The white hummingbird images are by Marlin Shank from<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>the Internet. Supernova or cone nebula and red flower images before and after "Love After Death" are from the Internet. </i><b> </b></span></span></div>
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</div></div></div>Alla Renée Bozarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163511991184059081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935062402132074268.post-37567421929265946332011-11-01T21:25:00.000-07:002020-06-18T22:03:04.703-07:00Cosmology, Christ and Us~Poems New and Old, Beginning with Everything, then Joy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387663795471_14559"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387663795471_14558" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still
ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.</span></i></div>
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Galilei</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: small;">Glorious, Galileo! A perfect example of how scientists think like
artists~ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: small;">playful, original, creative, easily enchanted by the Real
Wonders </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: small;">within and around us~ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: small;">all moments of the Divine made visible, audible, delectable, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Deep Deep Faith of an Evolutionary Scientist</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the opening day of my astronomy class</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">at Northwestern University when Professor Hynek </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">leaped onto the lecture platform, opened his arms wide </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and said, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hydrogen!” he was speaking of the Voice of God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the first split second of Creation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a state of Pure Energy, God pushed, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and in the push came a breath, and God pushed again,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and from the breath out popped a single ion of hydrogen,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and God pushed again, and from the single ion of hydrogen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">out popped the Universe, and God breathed again, and the Universe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">began to radiate out like an egg cracked open and spilled, and God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">said, “I shall never stop breathing, for this breath becomes song</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the whole dance of creation, and it is a wonder, a beauty,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and I shall call it Beloved to Infinity, and as the parts die</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and others are born, I shall lovingly draw the old parts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">back into Myself and infuse the new parts with</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">blessings, and I shall grow more blessings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as everything blooms and becomes.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From that first effort of the Holy One to create</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Matter and Time from Divine Energy, to utter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the first note of the Canticle of Creation,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to conceive the Sacred Story of Everything, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to give birth to the Cosmic Drama, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">came forth the unimaginable wonder </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of the Mystical Body of Christ</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">made manifest in Being. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the Body of Christ grows ceaselessly into Itself,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for Divine Nature is illimitable, unimaginable, Infinite,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eternally More. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God is becoming More</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">through becoming creation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">both darkness and light and neither of these, nor no one thing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in isolation from any other, no stray atom, but all stray atoms,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">stray runaway children. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so the Breath of God breathes out to become </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the best and the worst days of your life,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the most outrageous happiness and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the depths of grief beyond words,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the working times and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the waiting times in between.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Word of God unfolds forever, enfolds all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Word of God is faithful and forever alive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Word of God sings the song of cosmos, one note unfolding</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">into the next, a chord changing itself into an arpeggio, a sonata,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a fugue, a symphony. As the evolution of a cantata into a choir,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a concerto into a symphony, with the emergence of soloists </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">suddenly appearing from the hiding wings of What If and How—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God brings forth constantly changing creatures by means </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of co-evolution, where everything adapts moment by moment,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">eon by eon, to everything else~ what came before, what is now,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">what shall be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Think of free-form dance during fair weather that turns </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">from darkness to blinding light, from soft rain to lightning and hail, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">from storm to birdsongs and caressing warmth of the sun,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for us to wake up and pay attention, to enter the story</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">fully, lively, ready . . . to become part of the wonder,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to feel and think through the miracle, to experience the gift</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of Being, to puzzle, experiment, explore and interact with, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to feel ourselves becoming, becoming with, always changing, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">others around us who are also changing, and the dance opens up </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">into a circle of many, then a pas de deux, a solo, a silence, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">then over again. Many, many layered, intersecting dances of life </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">all at once, each slowly evolving into new ones.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being human and afraid, we still remember the perfect time</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">before birth, before responsibility, before uncertainty,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and crave a return to a static universe where nothing is asked of us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but to be, where judgment does not exist, nor loss nor tragedy,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">where failure is a foreign word and anything difficult does not exist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But we are born, we somehow bear having been born, we make the best of it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This world full of beauty and also of random disorder, illness, injury,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ignorance and hate, the resentful rage of revenge against life </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for having been born— is still our place of becoming,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of choice, of adaptation and Grace, for God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">never stops being born in our lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s become something wonderful and new!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It can be done by a smile, by a breath,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by simple consent to be here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for a day or an hour,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for a year . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And from there, or wherever we are, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be surprised. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the moment we open our eyes, we are discovering wonders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our senses work with the brain’s powers of making sense, and from seeing, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, intuiting, thinking and feeling, the brain </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">creates perceptions, making sense, rightly or wrongly, of what we experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As exploration and discovery unfold, we correct and revise our perceptions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The integrative mind does not perceive conflict between complementary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dynamics, but how they cooperate in the Divine Mind, how God outers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the Word anew throughout space and time, continues to make all things </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">new, and that creation flows through streams of evolution, so that Christ</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dying and rising each moment, Grace can be free, in all things bound,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">always be free. Therefore, God’s preferred vehicle of Grace-full creation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is naturally evolution. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See Brian Swimme </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/">http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See Richard Attenborough </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/charles-darwin-tree-life/">http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/charles-darwin-tree-life/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> for Carl Sagan and J. Allen Hynek, Spiral Galaxy</i></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz3A26daxPw/VPUkeNKwzqI/AAAAAAAAEQA/BTy9RByX6ME/s1600/Spiral%2BGalaxy%2Bfrom%2BHubble%2BFamily%2BAlbum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz3A26daxPw/VPUkeNKwzqI/AAAAAAAAEQA/BTy9RByX6ME/s1600/Spiral%2BGalaxy%2Bfrom%2BHubble%2BFamily%2BAlbum.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> my astronomy professor</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">at the moment of death</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">there are no atheists</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the great astronomer </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">would have said~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the great astronomer had said~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">there is no god necessary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to this self-made miracle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of our spacetime universe,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and matter regenerates itself</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">without beginning or end</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to infinity</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">his colleague said,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the beginning was the word</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the word was . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">hydrogen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the great scientist said~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">there is no intelligent life beyond </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">our own, in or out of the universe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">his colleague said,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the beginning was the word</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the word was hydrogen,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and when that single ion </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the cosmos were born</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the great scientist said~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I believe in what I see</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and know, the billions</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and billions of stars,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and it is more </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">than enough</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that in secret, not to be discredited,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he knew there was intelligence beyond us~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he’d never studied, that he, a mere mortal man</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">an intelligent Being brought us forth and even</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that it loves us, that we are not alone</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in our knowing, perhaps not even</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">superior, I believe that god exists</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and soon I will learn the features </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of infinite Love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the beginning is the word</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the word is Love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the voyager left home today.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all packed up with cheap, old-fashioned</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">equipment, cameras, sound machines,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gadgets for sending messages back home,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the latest jet-pack style equivalent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">technology</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so no other fuel will be necessary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">first off there was a stop at the front gate</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where an irresistible Martian sunset was</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">holding court, and we had to watch</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the trine rise of Venus, Jupiter and Earth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lifting over the horizon~ God, it was gorgeous,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">three stunning pearls in a coral sea, and who could guess</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how different their size and composition were?
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all the other planets en route. turns out</span></span></div>
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Babe’s been out of the house for 40 years already.</div>
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word is, the final departure from our heliosphere happened </div>
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about a year ago. we got one garbled effort at Goodbye while
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our traveler was crossing the horizon field beyond our
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to hear anything further . . .</div>
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the voyager has two 30 foot long whip antennae extending
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so as not to miss anything . . . and using antique transmission,
they were able </div>
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to pick up enough from the surrounding density of space
plasma, and had </div>
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the great luck to be helped by two huge solar flares at that
moment<br />
which excited the plasma particles enough to let their vibrations
register<br />
on the voyager’s instruments, converting the energy into audio signals
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a lovely last little chirp of So Long that echoed back
briefly, and then </div>
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abruptly went out as Voyager entered interstellar space
forever.</div>
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the next thing Voyager will see will be the Oort Cloud on
the outer edge</div>
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of what we almost know, the gauzy sphere where so many comets
are born . . .<br />
that lovely cocoon-like nest, that filmy shell of light and
wonder. </div>
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Voyager I will reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud in
about 300 years,<br />
and could take another 30,000 years or so to leave it. lately,
our traveler<br />
has been bombarded with a force of cosmic rays, while the solar
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as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>expected.<br />
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observers focused on
watching the magnetic fields to tell them when Voyager<br />
left the solar winds’
domain, but they neglected the significance of plasma density.<br />
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this trip is surprising the scientists, defying many human presumptions . . .<br />
as reality will do.</div>
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our brave explorer is now 11.6 billion miles from home.</div>
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at the very least, it disorients, it dizzies, it boggles. </div>
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at most, it evokes wonder beyond words . . .</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Weeeeeeeeee YHHEW !</i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">Alla Renée Bozarth</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"> </span></i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“On the
electrodynamics of moving bodies”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Albert Einstein, June 1905</span></div>
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yes, solid, liquid or gaseous matter converts to raw energy—</div>
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fat becomes fuel and a game of tennis or a term paper—</div>
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petrol converts to raw energy and becomes a trip to the
islands</div>
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what seems most inert has greatest potential </div>
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for energy to work its wonders or mayhem</div>
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the trick is to find the most amount of energy </div>
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in the smallest amount of mass, and the most energy </div>
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in any union of particles is in the core bond. Think of the
single ion</div>
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that was the cosmic egg, still unfolding multiverses of new
beings—</div>
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convert that thought to poems, tears, kisses or laughter,</div>
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convert that thought to a new invention or a beautiful lunch</div>
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think of the diamond worth millions that must be cut with
precision </div>
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or shatters, the priceless power and beauty of love’s
energy, its radiance </div>
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revealed when worn as a gift from the Beloved to the
Beloved </div>
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in their adamantine bond.</div>
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if less than two ounces of mass was required</div>
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for the energy which destroyed two great cities,</div>
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brought tragedy to hundreds of thousands</div>
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of human families and other species also,</div>
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but ended a hideous war—</div>
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then what chance has any of us to avoid</div>
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being struck by lightning in one form or another?</div>
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the power is where the bond is strongest.</div>
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take care how we use it, people.</div>
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use it for nurture, not nuclear nightmare.</div>
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York City</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">has less energy than
the newspaper in your hand. </i>read it, you hold the whole world </div>
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in your hands and take in all its oceans of sorrow<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and rivers of light </div>
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with your eyes. read it with comprehension and change the
world for better </div>
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in your own small marvelous way, today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"> Alla Renée Bozarth</span></i></div>
<b>The Frequency of Light</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Copyright 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Create Joy </b><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><i>The pain passes, but the beauty remains.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i>Renoir to Matisse </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Suppose you have a chronic affliction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">{Who doesn’t?} Suppose it distracts you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">from your life and you don’t want it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in your life. You want to say, I am more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">than this misery, I am more than this body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go ahead, then. Live through the pain but</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">create around it, create so much that is beautiful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and wonderful and marvelous, so much that is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">meaningful and helpful to others and also to you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">create so that the pain will not have a chance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to tempt you. It will not be able to get a word or a groan in</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">long enough or deep enough to deceive you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">into giving it your identity. Instead, you will be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">what you create. And you will always be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">what you create. And what you create will be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for those you love, for the strangers who will meet you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">long after your pain has died forever with your recycled body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and they will find your clear, radiantly healthy spirit, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and they will say, Thanks. This is lovely. This is just what I needed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even if you are unable to create with your hands,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">create awareness with your mind, create insight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">create peace with your spirit by letting it be drawn out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and beyond the window pane into the fields and sky, the marketplace, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the festivals, across the oceans, to other planets and between the stars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember the world that needs more love and love it, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">love individual beings where you find them, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">move your mind out into it and travel through it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with tender eyes and an appetite for everything marvelous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let the pain melt away with your mind’s love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the form of self-transcending compassion, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">even when you cannot smile or speak or think. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In your deep meditation that happens by intention below the pain~ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">will your burdens to become blessings, like compost in the earth, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">like sooted snow in late winter, yielding to the sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One inner word is all it takes, as simple as, “Here,” or </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Help,” between breaths. It will be done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will have made your pain into something more, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a connection that keeps alive your bond with all living beings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And from below, their own soul roots will quiver</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with a feeling of having been strengthened and blessed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will have been part of everything, still contributing, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">reverberating that one intention throughout time and space </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">beyond your own body, mind and mortal life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And that will be your forever joy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even after there will be no more human beings to experience your spirit,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it will be part of the Song of the Universe to infinity, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">part of the Holy One forever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Learning to Dance in Limbo</b> and <b>Purgatory Papers</b>, copyright 2012. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dance Then To Everything </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Music is everywhere</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">music is in sound and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">music is in silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to silence I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to tears I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to laughter I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to groans and moans</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance to Rachmaninoff</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Bach, to Beethoven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Dylan, to Carole King</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Marvin Gay and to everything</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">composed, harmonious and played</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dance then to birdsong and waterfall,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to the spring scented forest and garden,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to snow and the rain, to river and ocean,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with desert or mountain, I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the dancing mind can dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">forward or backward in time and space also,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">indeed to outer and inner dimensions uncommonly known</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance with my eyes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance with one hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance clapping, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance with one foot </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">or one shoulder, my hair </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dances with wind </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance to poetry while hearing it, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I dance to poetry while reading it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">aloud to the tree for whom I wrote it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I dance around the lovely thing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with my hand or arm encircling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Rumi danced his grief</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and finally his joy around</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the cool, smooth, sacred stone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">until he warmed it with longing~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Rumi danced around the pillar of loss </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">when his beloved teacher and friend </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">called Shams, <i>The Sun</i>, had died—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He danced to call back the Light </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">from the belly of darkness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that had swallowed the sky,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as now the Sufi dance after him</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For Dance is the Song of the Body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Songs are the Dance of the Voice~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as both Move, Utter, Outer the Soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dance with your mind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dance with your soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">across great distances</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of space and time</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so no one will know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and let the Beloved </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I Am You</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My third eye sees from inside God with a God’s Eye view</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And your third eye sees from inside God with a God’s Eye view—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you look with your Third Eye into mine, You see your Self, holy, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and when I look with my Third Eye into yours, I see my Self, holy— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, as I walk the earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the tree, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the fruit on the tree, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the solitary shell, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the creature once living there, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the bear, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the bird, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the storm cloud, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to thunder, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the rain, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the waterfall, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the river, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the fire, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the mountain, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the desert, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the ocean, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the homeless person, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the millionaire, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the elegant poet on dialysis, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the caregiver, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the disabled person, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the ancient, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the city, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the student, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the teacher, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the farmer, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say to the newborn as to the dying, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marc Chagall, <b>The Blue Violinist</b>, 1947~ two images, one bri<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ght<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">er and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one truer, both bri<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lliant coloration as always with this extraordinary Russian J<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ewish artist who emigrat<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ed to Paris~</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Marc Chagall, The Blue Violinist, 1947</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> The Holy Agnostic </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If by God we mean that than which nothing greater can be conceived, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>then we cannot conceive of that entity except as existing.</i> <b> </b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He looked like he’d been on the rails all his days, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“That’s a complex question,” he ventured.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“If you mean do I give assent to the tenets</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You see, I have the same hunger for that so-called</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the hunger that gets us in so much trouble and leads us to </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“My hunger for the Holy Unknown is so achingly intense</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">absolutely open, knowing my own humanity too well). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to show Itself to me. I hope it will be some kind of intimately personal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">meeting, as overwhelming as falling in love. I hope it will have an intellectual</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">nor would I use them as weapons against myself or others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Now, you may say that I’m an arrogant so-and-so</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for not accepting someone else’s version of that Ultimate Being,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the acknowledgement that no human concepts or precepts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">could come near to describing the Awesome Reality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span>Probably most of the metaphors work in themselves,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God the Mother, God the Father, God the Child, God the Friend,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God the Lover, God the Light, God the Word, God the Silence, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God the Creator, God the Redeemer, God the Spirit, God the Pure Energy—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and so on. But they only work when applied as metaphors, in the context </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of the moment— and when they are made absolutes and become, any one </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of them, literal and dogmatic, then they are like the letter of the law</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that destroys the spirit, and instead of being life-giving, they stifle the soul</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and paralyze its ability to receive The Real Thing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I am going to let you listen to something that may surprise you—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">my agnostic prayer: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Whoever You Are, first I want to tell you this— I love not knowing, but feeling </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>closer to You than air to skin, in the freedom of being open to Whoever and </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whatever You Are, as exquisitely mysterious as any breathtakingly beautiful </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>painting or flower. Bless all beings by helping them to be aware of Your Sacred </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mystery, and to receive it with a gracious humility, and if You can, help us </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to love this astonishing life in all its sweet mysteries, and not lose faith in it </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>when it becomes difficult or horrifying. If I may, since it is my innate desire </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to do so, I offer You my total unknowing, and with it, my thanks</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>for the intelligence and self-awareness You’ve given me, through which I have </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>this wonderful sense of You and my own desire for You. Somehow there is more</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> peace and happiness for me there than in any secure-making ideas that could be </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>put into words, and would therefore be limited and wrong. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Yes, I know that even what I am saying now is too much, but I’m a talky animal</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>and have to start somewhere. I know You can’t interfere with free will, and You </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>allow chaos as the necessary destructive phase of the ongoing creative process.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I’m sure I don’t have to tell You that free will is difficult for us humans. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We’re mostly afraid of our freedom, terrified of making mistakes, and terrified </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>also that we have no idea what we want or need, but are being batted around </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>from illusion to delusion and back again.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“A sense of being is as hard to come by as a sense of self or soul— </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>as impossible for some as it is natural for others.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There must be a way for us insecure and immature human beings to relax</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>without needing to sink into fixed and closed notions and rules,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>other than the freeing rules of respect and kindness. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“And I don’t have to tell You that we hate chaos, though </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>we create plenty of it ourselves. We crave order and predictability, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>though we can’t achieve them in our own lives very well. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The scientists assure us that this is the way the universe works, though,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>and they tell us it’s trustworthy, so who are we to whine and complain?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I’m rambling, because I don’t have much else to say, so I’ll close for now</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>with another Thank You. I love being here, mosquitoes and hunger and all.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Logic dictates that, given chaos and free will, You can’t do much about suffering.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s up to us to alleviate it with our patience, kindness and intelligence.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You’re doing a great job, Whoever You Are, not that You need me to tell You,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>but I enjoy telling You and hope that You enjoy Being You. Amen.”</i><b><i> </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as this true openness to the Holy One/ness or simply Great Mystery, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">replacing exclusion and literalism with good will and wonderment, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Siddhartha Gautama, the once and future Buddha, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Saint Francis of Assisi were the same, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for each man set out from a sheltered room</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">within the walls of opulence in later youth, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">unwilling to be cut off by wealth from the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each rebelled in a holy rebellion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each went over the wall</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in a wide-eyed wonder of love for the world,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to take in all that was on the other side,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to marvel at all that lived—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with tears and cries and hunger,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with longing and surprise.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each became a troubadour</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and roamed the Earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">while singing souls awake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And each became at-one with all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">through holy renunciation, took on</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">voluntary empathic identity</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with every mortal entity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each in his raw humanity gave all,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">unbounded, unfettered, unshackled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">attention, self-blessed and a blessing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And later, each sat</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">upon sacred ground,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">stripped of everything</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">but the one song</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">each creature sings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with its living breath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That song is Oneness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That song is Yes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That song None Other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That song is God and not-God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That song is the soul’s outcrying sound.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And Saint Francis and Siddhartha</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sang it with a smile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> <i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My Passion for Art</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">She Loves It All</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when god was a girl she loved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to play dress up with hydrogen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and nitrogen, she wiggled her hips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blew kisses from her voluptuous</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lips and wiggled her fingers to toss the stars~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she juggled them and tied ribbons on them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when she wanted to create new dimensions, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to open all the directions she hurled them like a salad </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that no one told her not to play with, so she giggled </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and played until all the ingredients stuck on the ceiling of
sky, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but then she’d coax them back into action and let them
decide </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where to go and how far and when or if to land, and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she would go far out, way, way out to play </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with her dolls, the gaseous, luminous balls of delight, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hold them in her cool hands for a millennial minute</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to turn them into planets and things of that sort, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with what we call substance, solid stuff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but there was precious little of that compared</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the zillions of light years and miles of raw energy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she stores in those closets disguised as nothingness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dark matter if it’s just out there and going nowhere</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(we think), and dark energy if it seems to push</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the many verses ever outward from each other~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for epic cosmic poems gone lyrical and operatic wild</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> there is always music as silence and vice versa</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">going on in the movement between beings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and yes, she likes those comets, never lost</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her taste for new things, plays with galaxies and
constellations </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of beautiful toys and wears them like jewelry in living
colors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lots of necklaces and rings, baubles on Christmas trees,
then turns them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into mirrors of herself, better than hot melted many-colored
glass spinning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the fire~ though sometimes she is shy and covers them with
night invisible, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that brilliant dark country that covers the map of heaven, and
she does it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the better to show her curls, her graceful arms, her reach
into fire for love, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her laughter-made comets~ and sometimes she braids their
tails</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sometimes she says, you are simply gorgeous,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">delicious as roses on a birthday cake, scrumptious</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a coarse lemon poppy seed wedding cake with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thick passion fruit frosting, with gold leaves and silver </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bangles and pearls, with marionberries and cream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and she then gets distracted and remembers it’s lunch time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and she cooks up something new to serve variously </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here and there around the place~ and to her, the future </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is not in front or ahead or out there but inside, always </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">inside everything, where the past is pretending to govern </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what we call the present but she calls Beloved, and where </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">next week we’ll talk about when god was a mountain,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then how all the kinds of rocks became her feet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until she wanted to run again with a bird’s eye view</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and became a baby giraffe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and later, about how she tried on the whole zoo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then settled down for several millennia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as an entire evergreen forest, yes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the ancient sequoias, the redwoods mingling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with blue spruce, and then she became an etude,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a fantasie-impromptu, a symphony, a garland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of roses, a garden of petunias and pansies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and marigolds which she served in salads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to strengthen the blood of her mammals,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and dandelions, which doubled as tonic and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">oh~ maybe she’d like to be a mermaid</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and swim all the seas, yes, that would</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be fine, she says</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and about then god the old woman decides it’s time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to figure out what to do about all the beings who suffer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in pain, sorrow, confusion, anger or fear, which she knows </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from being all of them, and asks us please to pray for her .
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Frequencies of Sound</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, copyright 2013.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>“Do You Live Alone?”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Impossible!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Think of it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and joints of my house</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">are trillions of creatures,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">some so small the ant and mouse</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and solitary bee seem giants —</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">not to mention those who cuddle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">close for warmth and crumbs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">outside — thousands of species</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of birds and insects,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">rabbits, moles, creepy-crawlers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of all sorts, the neighbors’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">cats and dogs and cows and geese</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and sheep and horses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then inside are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the heavenly hosts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">who welcome me to my table,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and earth angels in food and flower,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so open to intimacy and even union</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with eye, nose, hand, lips,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">organs, words, dreams and poems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Besides these, all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">human colleagues</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">represented by each object:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the artists, laborers, crafters,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ancestors and friends behind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the presence of every beautiful</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">or useful or meaningful object</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the forest of trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that live on as furniture,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">picture frames, and the very</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">structure that is <i>home</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I share my tree house</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with millions of unmet mates</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">gratefully.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mealtime meditation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">brings in even more, transient</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">guests — those myriad beings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">who have been part of my food’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">journey here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I neither live alone nor eat alone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes I need to step outside</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to taste a moment of relative</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">solitude, and even then</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it’s an illusion: the stars are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as with me and alive</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as the sleeping bugs in the ground</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">beneath my feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can stretch in any direction</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and bless it, knowing a companion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is there within touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And because I know that every bush</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is a burning bush,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I ask the roses not to burn my lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">when I bend to kiss them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>portion of a larger oil painting on canvas by Carole Baker</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>for Emmaus Way, Durham, North Carolina.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Below, sunset with full moon at the North Pole. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Images are from the Hubble Space Telescope, Eucharistic Dance at the 25th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordinations at the Church of the Advocate, Chagall's Blue Violin, Dark Moon, Moon Tracks, Sunrise on Mt. St. Helens and Dawn at the North Pole. All but the dance are from the Internet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>The earth laughs in flowers.</b></i> Emerson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Notes from a Future
Fossil</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You who circumambulate the high crystal mountains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and come down to a glacier-fed riverbed to discover its
treasures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">as if at the center of the world, look for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I may be resting there, perpetually bathing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">in mountain blessed light and sleeping at night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">beneath the dark quilt of sky or a shimmering blanket of
stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If you find my bones tucked away in a river cave, half-turned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to stone, and you take my petrified skull into your hands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">look into the death-opened windows from where once eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">would have gazed out to greet you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There will be green algae clinging to the fissures,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and nests of blue feathers where ears once were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">By these signs you will know who I have become,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">distilled and transformed from what I once was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to green earth and blue wind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Do not try to imagine the person who once inhabited the
shrine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of the skull in your hands. The temple has closed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You will
not come close.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Instead, commend my freed spirit to the ocean, t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">o</span> red cedar trees </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and waterfalls,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>to white volcanoes whose sacred glacial<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>galleries </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">hold
histories,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>and mine among them. Soon perhaps, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and one day surely~ yours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Picture notes: Flower image above~ one of my Brigadoon camellias in the back yard. Petrified wood with rose quartz in a bench near the well in the front yard. Below, enlarged, are pictures of Mt. Hood over my pasture 30 years ago with a neighbor's horse in the field and blooms in the wildflower meadow; and further down, at sunset, framed by trees from the top of my hill, then coming
down into the heart place of mystery and up again to open pastures and
forest views with Mt. Hood over all, and rhododendron close-ups in between, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> a quail on the pyramid fountain in the backyard seen from the enclosed porch window, and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a deer </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">passing yellow Siberian irises on the way to </span>the pool for a drink</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nothing Anywhere Else Could be Better than
This</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freedom from
everything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now. You can see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">right through me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Skin thinned to a
mere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">clear wrapper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freedom to be
completely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">myself. Freedom from
travel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freedom from the
incessant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">melodrama of others’
lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freedom to be
exactly where</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to be, that
one place </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on earth that is
best suited </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to my inner
landscape, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the land of my
birth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freedom to do what I
most</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">want to do, which is to commune </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with
elder beings who live</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the garden around
me—</span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The water that falls</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from rock sculpture
and all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the shapes of
spirit-holding trees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the
shape-shifting clouds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that swim through
the sky.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the
ever-changing firebodies</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of stars. I could
not be so well </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">companioned by
running or flying</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">around the world at
my former speeds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could not be so
well taught</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">by the redundant and
less important</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">information that
assaulted my ears</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">through the
telephone or newspapers.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Going out like this</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in such
near-perfection </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">at the end of an
incarnation, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in natural cessation
of bodily function,
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I shall die a well
woman.</span></span></div>
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<i>Alla Renée Bozarth</i><br />
Part One in <b>Quartet~ </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Swinging Over the Edge of the World</b><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 2008 </span> </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tonight I followed my fingers to the creation keys for a blog, something I never imagined I'd do. This is mostly a result of having created an archival website but being unable to complete and post it for economic reasons. I'm going to try to make available some of the various resources I want made available, but right now have no idea how it all will work out, so I'm embarking on a new adventure in learning and discovery. Perhaps the archives will be a way to translate the topics so that they can be found.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's a generous reader's response: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"You draw on waters of a well you have dug and filled, with a lifetime
of spiritual reflections and
observations about the cosmos and the human condition within that
cosmos– emerging as truth dressed up in the magnificent language of
poetry. You minister to us with poetic soul-talk of the highest
order. Thank you for finding such a distinctive way to touch and teach
me ~ us ~ in so many remarkable ways with your
extraordinary spirit."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Love, blessings, and shalom, Rolf Menachem Gompertz"</span></span></div>
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<b>Tat Tvam Asi</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the divine is you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the divine is you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the divine is each you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the divine is every you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the divine is in you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you can’t know it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that you are a stand-in</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for God, that your neighbor</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and even your enemy </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are stand-ins for God ~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that the invisible neutrinos</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">part of the indescribable, incomprehensible Beauty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who you are, who I am, who we are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
<i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 2013.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MgAMXGc7l7c/UTVJR34W6HI/AAAAAAAAC4E/y8AaMrF8Iqo/s1600/May+2007+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MgAMXGc7l7c/UTVJR34W6HI/AAAAAAAAC4E/y8AaMrF8Iqo/s320/May+2007+016.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I Am You</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My third eye sees from inside God with a God’s Eye view</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And your third eye sees from inside God with a God’s Eye view—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When you look with your Third Eye into mine, You see your Self, holy, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and when I look with my Third Eye into yours, I see my Self, holy— </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, as I walk the earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the tree, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the fruit on the tree, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the solitary shell, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the bear, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the bird, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the bee, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the storm cloud, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to thunder, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the rain, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the waterfall, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the river, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the fire, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the mountain, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the desert, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the ocean, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the homeless person, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the millionaire, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the elegant poet on dialysis, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the caregiver, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the disabled person, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the ancient, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the city, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the teacher, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the farmer, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the prisoner, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the soldier, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the swimmer, I am You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to history, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to the newborn as to the dying, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I say to You, I am You</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i> Alla Renée Bozarth</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Copyright 2013.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UrFzebZRpjk/VU5jvvt9fNI/AAAAAAAAEUM/KLjEU3v8kfY/s1600/Quail%2Bking%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bfountain%2Bpyramid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UrFzebZRpjk/VU5jvvt9fNI/AAAAAAAAEUM/KLjEU3v8kfY/s640/Quail%2Bking%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bfountain%2Bpyramid.jpg" width="331" /></a></span></span> <br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Contribution~
In the Serv<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ice of</span> Creation</b> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In case you need</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to hear it again—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">though I am certain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that you know it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">very well—</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">life is short</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and uncertain.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You won’t have</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">many chances,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">maybe today’s are it,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so ask questions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and say what you mean.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Look up words and names</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and learn more about them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Say them out loud, and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">throw a party for the people</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who impress you by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thinking about them</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a visible smile.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leave a trail of poems and prayers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">behind you, scatter some randomly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around~ tell everyone, all the animals,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">plants and elements, tell all beings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about their incredible courage,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and introduce the world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to its own loveliness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a gift you’ll be</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">giving, what a magnificent</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">contribution!<i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frequencies of Sound</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Communion</b></span></span><br />
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North South East and West</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of my body, straight and fluid </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a magnet’s needle, drawing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all creation home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Me<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ssenger</span> blood bends down, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back, then side to side, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">balanced in space, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stretched in all directions,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">seeking the lively gift.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My body waits her journey </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into living things, deep </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down lying animals, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">incarnate little creatures</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">feasting on my bones.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the warm wet tingle </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of earth down under </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">creatures meet most dearly, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sleep and secrets shared </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in earth from cell to cell, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">decomposing to recompose,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">most real deep down incorporation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fire heats the inside planet </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">keeping all things going, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sacrament of changes, fire </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">burns to fulfill being itself, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">immaterial but loving matter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fire is the process</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of deep transformation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">North South East and West </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fire guided mercury moving me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up, down, from side to side </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a body wise with soul.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bury me under blue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">waterfall that my body </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may wash deep and straight </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into Earth’s heart </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in live green ground </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a silver arrow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">skin like broken glass </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">letting the billion particles </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of blood<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>spill out, surprised </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by air, flooding into </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">waiting pores.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is my body given for you, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heart having melted into sod. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is my blood.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sunsoaked arms springing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up green shoots newly </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for fruit trees </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may once again find light </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and warm electric shock </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of summer rain,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my legs be nests </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for small dark </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gentle beasts to</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">busily bed their eggs,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my eye-spaces cradle </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">doubly round wild iris bulbs, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my eyes see sky again </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the growing upward </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">faces of red, purple, electric blue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">O wildest new wild irises in green fields</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with singing roots where<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> others<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'</span> bodies</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">once hummed,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my nails and hair the hidden </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flow of seed from past nights </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">into days for future years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as nesting matter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hoping for life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a tangle of grasses, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my cradle arms outstretched </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">across oceans for opposite </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">once-joined lands </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but always aiming upward </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a joyous, awesome </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think I was inspired, on my way to taking an All Saints Evening Moonlight walk on my hilly country road, to stop at the computer en route and inquire, "How to start a blog." It had occurred to me moments before while thinking about my closeted website that a blog might be a way to bring some of its content to light. Then my feet and fingers pursued what I thought would be a moment of information. In response to my query, Google immediately gave me a page that said, "It's easy, quick, simple and free. Click here to begin and have your blog right away." Right away? I clicked. And here I am, ready to bring you poems, prayers, stories about inspiring people . . . </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> . . . Greeting Bishop Barbara Harris on her Consecration Day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. . . and Earth, Water and Sky images in living color. I hope that they will make your eyes happy, your mind gratified and your heart and soul glad.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grief Give-Away Dance to God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Upper Room, Jerusalem</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Dance Then To Everything </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Music is everywhere</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">music is in sound and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">music is in silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to silence I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to tears I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to laughter I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to groans and moans</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance to Rachmaninoff</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Bach, to Beethoven</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Dylan, to Carole King</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Marvin Gay and to everything</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">composed, harmonious and played</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dance then to birdsong and waterfall,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the spring scented forest and garden,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to snow and the rain, to river and ocean,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with desert or mountain, I dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the dancing mind can dance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forward or backward in time and space also,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">indeed to outer and inner dimensions uncommonly known</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance with my eyes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance with one hand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance clapping, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance with one foot </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or one shoulder, my hair </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dances with wind </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance to poetry while hearing it, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance to poetry while reading it </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">aloud to the tree for whom I wrote it</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I dance around the lovely thing </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with my hand or arm encircling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Rumi danced his grief</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and finally his joy around</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the cool, smooth, sacred stone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until he warmed it with longing~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Rumi danced around the pillar of loss </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when his beloved teacher and friend </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">called Shams, <i>The Sun</i>, had died—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He danced to call back the Light </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the belly of darkness </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that had swallowed the sky,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as now the Sufi dance after him</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Dance is the Song of the Body,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Songs are the Dance of the Voice~</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as both Move, Utter, Outer the Soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance to the gospels</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance to the psalms</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance to a friend</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dance mostly and always</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to God </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don’t let the limitations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your body deter you,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dance with your mind,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dance with your soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feel free to join me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">across great distances</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but you and the Beloved,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and let the Beloved </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dance with You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From the Cradle of Life . . .</span></span></div>
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. . . to the Mountain Source where fires glow beneath ice and snow</span></span><br />
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. . . and water and light grow beauty from a seed~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> on your own unique journey through space and time!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> On Being a Mammal</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Strawberry Moon </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to begin and end </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On Marmot Road</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tree I love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">asymmetrical</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like me opens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">its one good arm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in welcome.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The slow suffering </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">body wants to go back </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to Earth before </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the parts </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wear out and so </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it leans toward her </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">body deeply </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I do also:
I touch </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tree and remember </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a thrill of conviviality: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we are both made of the same </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">double helix molecular </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">quiver.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sitting still </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I become a life ladder — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">small birds climb </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over me on their way </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up or down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They take me</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the base of the tree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soon a red fox yawns </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the berry thicket, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beaver shift themselves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from work to play, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and cows lie down </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the sun, their copper </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bodies glimmering peace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A rabbit sniffs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the evening air </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">approaching and runs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the barn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Learning to be myself </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from them, I yawn, rest, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sniff and stretch </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">against the sun, listen </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the honey hunter </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to come out of her den </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and witness this session </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of summer school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A red dragonfly circles </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">circling a red wildflower.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nose to nose with a doe, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mammal to mammal we </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">quietly regard each other. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I tell her how glad I am </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to have followed my instincts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here — how doing that more and more </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cheers a girl right up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sunset moon rises full </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and pink over the pink </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wild rose and the rose </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">white mountain cuts a summit </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">triangle through the middle </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the moon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are beings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the edge of the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to love each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iUniverse 2000; and <b>This is My Body—</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Praying
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mouse the Neighbor Horse visiting my pasture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below: Precious the Young Goat </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> A friend who lives across the road.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below: the black walnut tree in my backyard.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<b>Blessing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blessed be the Creator </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all creative hands </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which plant and harvest, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pack and haul and hand </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over sustenance — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blessed be carrot and cow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">potato and mushroom, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tomato and bean, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">parsley and peas, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">onion and thyme, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">garlic and bay leaf, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pepper and water, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blessed be fire — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blessed be the enjoyment </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of nose and of eye,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blessed be color — </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blessed be the Creator</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the miracle of red potato,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the miracle of green bean,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the miracle of fawn mushrooms,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and blessed be God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the miracle of earth:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ancestors, grass, bird, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wild creatures </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">whose bodies become </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">give sustenance </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and soul of the dog </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the stove and the geese </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And blessed be God for all, all, all.</span></span></div>
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to the Edge of the World</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This is
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Prayers
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iUniverse 2004</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 6, 2011</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ve had so many thoughts, feelings, and reactions rattling around inside me since I read your stunning ALLA BOZARTH WORDS AND IMAGES WELCOMING LIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS blog including : “Consecration: The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde” and “Women, Trees and Sacred Earth,” that I feel truly overwhelmed and overjoyed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I feel like a pinball machine lighting up all over, as these thoughts and feelings race around inside me, knocking into each other and lighting up, at the speed of light. Since there is no way of capturing them in an orderly fashion, I shall just try to recall them as best I can and let them tumble out, as I go along.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thoughts and feelings, as you know, don’t present themselves at convenient times or convenient places. If I needed to be reminded of that, I was given such a reminder by reading these latest, marvelous outpourings of your heart, mind, body and soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have tried to find an umbrella title for them, in addition to the always telling descriptive titles you give your writings. You are priest-prophet-poet, you are witness and participant. You turn spirit into words, which become spirit again, as they touch my spirit, my soul, our spirit, our souls. As I experience this, I feel lifted up and, in that moment, I feel an encounter with holiness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is “Torah” in the truest sense. The translation for “Torah,” as you know, is “Teaching.” It refers, of course, to our sacred texts. Our rabbis, in wonderful rabbinic method and tradition, expand on this and declare that each human being is and can become a “torah, a teaching.” You are such a torah, such a teaching. Your life, your works, your words are such a torah, such a teaching – rare, extraordinary, sublime, and of the highest order.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I find you incomparable and in a class of your own. Your writings have the power of raising the spirit, elevating the soul, and providing comfort, guidance, strength, joy and love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s why I’m hoping and praying that your writings may not only be read by many, but studied also in schools and universities, and in academies secular and religious. You have devoted your life to exploring the human heart, its needs and longings, and its connection to what is eternal, sacred, and holy, which we call by many names but, most simply, God. You have left a most remarkable, detailed, virtually daily record and map of this journey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your blog is your Life Poem-Song-Dance; your books are its ramifications – its veins, arteries and tributaries. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“…it has no plot. My life and soul have no plot…only themes.” What a fascinating claim, statement and thought – which you then go on to explain. I have underlined every word of your “explanation” and placed five !!!!!! next to the paragraph, in the margin. The basic themes of a human life, the balancing act we must achieve to fulfill goals or be happy (and healthy) – your words. And more: “The soul has to learn how to respond when bad weather comes, as well as sudden bliss. I think all my books are about that one way or another, even in my scholarly book, <b><i>The Word’s Body</i></b>: <b><i>An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation, </i></b>which is about embodying the word~ whether in performance, simply reading aloud, or even as a silent reader, and how one interprets a text through one’s kinesthetic response to it.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What an amazing description/explanation. By the way, I still marvel at your scholarly book. I thought you might enjoy and be surprised to know that when I taught at UCLA Extension I always read a paragraph from this book, another from <b>Life is Good-Bye, Life is Hello</b>, and a poem. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, without telling them your name or anything about you, I asked who the writer was “professionally.” I got three answers: an academic, a psychologist/psychotherapist, and a poet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I informed them that the writer is one person who is all of the above. The moral of the story was that as writers, journalists, authors or whatever, they must always know the correct format to use for whatever they are writing and the correct language. Know which hat you are wearing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(BTW, I once had a student who was so way over the top that I could not tell her anything and she insisted on writing like a carnival hawker. I told her she would be better off writing fantasies or popular romances. She was literally out of control.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Loved what you answered re. what makes good poetry. Five more !!!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now we come to all the amazing historical events and their bearing on your life, the struggle for women’s rights, and the particular, heroic struggle for bringing about the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church. What an enormously valuable account this is. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your books follow, in impressive parade, with wonderful commentary, particularly <i>Life Is Goodbye/Life is Hello,</i> culminating with the magnificent poem,<i> “Dancing the Labyrinth” </i>from <i>Accidental Wisdom, </i>and its wonder-filled, wonder-full message<i> “to let your heart break open/so that you can hear/the first cry/of creation/ when God birthed/the universe,/and you can/become/large enough/to respond,/let your whole/life unfurl/in all /its magnificence /and purity, /and cry back to the Holy One/with the beauty /that will rise/within you.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Magnificent, indeed. Thank you, dearest Alla, for these holy words, and this holy blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love, blessings, and shalom,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rolf Menachem Gompertz </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Author of<i> To Life! To Love! In Poetry and Prose, a Spiritual Memoir; A Jewish Novel about Jesus </i><b> </b>(formerly, <i>My Jewish Brother Jesus</i>); and, in addition to many others, <i>Sparks of Spirit, How to Find Love and Meaning in Your Life 24 Hours a Day </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Novel-About-Jesus/dp/product-description/059528437X">http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Novel-About-Jesus/dp/product-description/059528437X</a></span></span><br />
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