<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="">Dear Riantee ~~~ yes I remember this so well! ~ thank you for this poem~ our walks/talks ~ so profoundly delightful ~ so delightfully profound.~ !! ~~~~~ So much FUN w/you ~ thank you dear friend for all our wonderful times together ~ laughing at all the profundities from that deep down place of a complete and delightful sense of surrender to the vastness of our Un-knowing. ~ the journey into Nothing ~ rolling around in it together! ~ in those flames that need no fuel.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> We are forever arriving ~ ~~~~~~~~~~ into a deepening mystery.</div><div class="">And only love knows where it goes,</div><div class="">~m.🌟💕<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 15, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Lydia Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Such a delight to be taken along your morning Ron. I am right here with you!<div class="">Talking of delight, I want to share a poem I wrote for Marc when, after a walk on the ocean, we played with the question:</div><div class="">Was it profoundly delightful</div><div class="">or</div><div class="">delightfully profound?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<!--EndFragment--></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 15, 2020, at 11:14, D. Sangraal via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Such a blessing to be 'inside' your morning Ron and your<div class="">deep, intimate sharing. I'm very inspired and know</div><div class="">"something wonderful IS happening".</div><div class="">D.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:36 AM cathy fantulin via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Listen to Toni! I know, I know..the mask thing. <div dir="auto" class="">Love it like you love ALL things.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 8:50 AM Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="text-align:center" class="">Early Morning </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">5:37a.m.</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">(in between time)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class="">I like to rise early in the morning ~ there is a sense of stillness in the World ~ a place I feel in my heart that knows most people are safely tucked-in warm </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">with pillow and blanket~. A sense that I’ve got the World to myself, along with the first morning birds, </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">the fish, the last lingering ever so quiet nocturnal creatures like foxes and owls, the flowers yet to fragile to open in the chilly morning dew~.</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""> I’m able to feel the gap between night and day in the still silence and distinct sounds that are like those high funky notes at the end of a piano that you rarely hear played in the body of a composition but you know they are there for a purpose ~ the still silent transition between the dark and the light. Together they are one day ~ my morning catch that is the flavor of both, as the sun is subtlety becoming more luminescent as though some Angel has Her fingers on the dimmer bringing up a presence that stirs and blends </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">my thoughts and perceptions into the alchemy of this day's unfolding~. </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">I meet this day and everyday since I was 26 years old with a bit of</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">wisdom spoken by the Master to his student in one of Og Mandino’s books: </div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><i class="">“I greet this day with love in my heart”</i> </div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class="">This has helped to set the tone of the day like a cathedral bell to help unite in my thinking mind with my feeling heart~. </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">Lately I’ve gone to bed with a sore throat and I’ve awakened with a sore throat ~ Toni says it is because I’ve been spending too much time outside in the smoke</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">without a mask, breathing in too much smoke~. Of course she is correct ~ and later in an e-mail to someone I write jokingly: </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">~"Today I smoked three fir trees, with a hint of manzanita and oak along with a faint nose of an old barn, parts of condo and…” …and I <u class="">stop</u> to </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">consider what other ashes am I taking in from this funeral pyre carried in the winds~.</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class="">…and I <u class="">stop</u> to feel within ~ I <u class="">stop</u> in this moment with love in my heart to take-in something else — the over 3 million acres ablaze and as yet to be </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">counted thousands of homes, businesses and lives that have been consumed~.</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">I’ve talked with a friend who barely got out when the phone rang at 2:00 a.m. “get out now!" - they barely made it~. </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">Their newly built home and all their personal and prized collections went up in the consuming dance of Mother Nature's inferno who shows us a thing or two about consumption~. </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">They, along with others in Oregon went to work double time rescuing others - moving those who have been trapped in Covid isolation in Convalescent Care facilities </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">away from loved one’s, smoke and burning towns ~ imagine these challenges…</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class="">~I finally spoke with a man I tried connecting with for two days as the cell tower was out ~ the fire only 45 mins. away ~ he was gathering what he could~. I talked with a mother, her two children (one with asthma) and their dog in a traffic caravan of smoke and ash soaked cars, trucks and trailers driving toward the promise of a lower air index - Arizona… Last night they found themselves in a roadside motel in the outskirts of Reno </div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class="">~As the days shorten and seemingly shrink in the space between the dark time, the still silent moment between each breath, the fraction of a second between each heart beat and as each thought dissolves from one to another ~ see if you can <u class="">stop</u> thinking, <u class="">look</u> within and <u class="">listen</u> deeper for the whisper of your Soul that is saying</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">something wonderful to you ~ enjoy the day as there is a faint but yet perceivable message in the stillness and in each photon capsule of every ray of light ~~~ </div><div style="text-align:center" class="">and in the seeming darkness of each night and every day waiting to be received…</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">“It” is in every ever present precious moment of Now~.</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><i class="">“I greet this day with Love in my heart”</i></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><i class="">This Breath</i></div><div style="text-align:center" class="">~Ron</div><div style="text-align:center" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#0000ff" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><span class="">Do not forget that the ashes falling from the sky are all that remains of the pine and grass and thistle; they are also someones loved ones, cherished belongings, un-replaceable items, beloved animals, wild animals, bears, coyotes, deer, and mice & sooo many other creatures that could not escape. Scoop some up in a sacred manner. Take it to your altar. Offer prayers for these beings. Honor their death. Pray for life. Call in rain. Remind Fire that it is full, has gobbled enough, and can rest. May all beings be safe. May all beings be loved. May all beings be remembered. May all beings be mourned. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:large" class="">- Source unknown</span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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