<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear everyone ~ my heart is so filled with light this morning ~ with so much love and gratitude for everyone and everything coming out of our recent back and forths ~ and now with Toni’s sweet and beautiful inspiring response to it all and Ron’s amazing morning reflections/ruminations/revelations I’m feeling an impulse to come back in here for just a moment feeling a slight responsibility nudging me onward since kicking this off w/BRTS idea, etc. </div></div></blockquote>So I want to offer this poem that Toni sent to me fairly recently ~ I think it expresses most of what I want to say. </div><div>~ Personally I think it could have been written by her. ~ If we were all in our sacred circle together I would love to read this with my drum. ~~~~it feels to me almost like a beat-jazz poem? ~~~~~ ( M. Eckhart was from the 13th cent.)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Only love,</div><div>~m.🙏🌟<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">The All of Ever Only Love</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">We name the world</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">of things and feelings,</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">of this and that,</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">of yes and no,</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">of dark and light</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">And in all this</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">turn from the source of our being</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">which has no name we can know</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and is beyond</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">every feeling </div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and cannot be other than yes,</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and when I give myself to</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">the inflow of</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">me into You</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">I find that this origin is the way</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">and this way is the end and</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">this end is the all of</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">ever only love.</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">(from Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Roz <<a href="mailto:roz@mcn.org" class="">roz@mcn.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Latest pics</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">September 14, 2020 at 6:54:37 PM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Carolyn King <<a href="mailto:cdking@mindspring.com" class="">cdking@mindspring.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:8B2D6E0C-4C44-4F67-A149-CF4E90E6F86C" class=""><Screen Shot 2020-08-24 at 8.27.23 PM.PNG></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:81AB93DF-435A-4948-AAE3-BFEF52C293EF" class=""><Screen Shot 2020-08-24 at 8.38.07 PM.PNG></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:B3EEF480-6802-4328-8D5E-9E4A185DFC76" class=""><Screen Shot 2020-08-24 at 8.41.35 PM.PNG></span><br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPad</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>