<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much for that poem. She was definitely one of my heroines!<div>I've been crying a lot. That poem is really wonderful!</div><div><br></div><div>Love,</div><div>Joan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 10:16 AM Roz via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> Oh thank you Ron! This says it all. I am so sad about the passing of<br>
this heroic woman. May peace prevail<br>
<br>
Love, Roz<br>
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> Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg<br>
> (she left us in body but not in Spirit)<br>
><br>
> When Great Trees Fall<br>
><br>
> When great trees fall,<br>
> rocks on distant hills shudder,<br>
> lions hunker down<br>
> in tall grasses,<br>
> and even elephants<br>
> lumber after safety.<br>
> When great trees fall<br>
> in forests,<br>
> small things recoil into silence,<br>
> their senses<br>
> eroded beyond fear.<br>
> When great souls die,<br>
> the air around us becomes<br>
> light, rare, sterile.<br>
> We breathe, briefly.<br>
> Our eyes, briefly,<br>
> see with<br>
> a hurtful clarity.<br>
> Our memory, suddenly sharpened,<br>
> examines,<br>
> gnaws on kind words<br>
> unsaid,<br>
> promised walks<br>
> never taken.<br>
> Great souls die and<br>
> our reality, bound to<br>
> them, takes leave of us.<br>
> Our souls,<br>
> dependent upon their<br>
> nurture,<br>
> now shrink, wizened.<br>
> Our minds, formed<br>
> and informed by their<br>
> radiance,<br>
> fall away.<br>
> We are not so much maddened<br>
> as reduced to the unutterable ignorance<br>
> of<br>
> dark, cold<br>
> caves.<br>
> And when great souls die,<br>
> after a period peace blooms,<br>
> slowly and always<br>
> irregularly. Spaces fill<br>
> with a kind of<br>
> soothing electric vibration.<br>
> Our senses, restored, never<br>
> to be the same, whisper to us.<br>
> They existed. They existed.<br>
> We can be. Be and be<br>
> better. For they existed.<br>
><br>
> - Maya Angelou<br>
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