<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="">I enjoyed reading this again, so much!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 31, 2021, at 11:22 PM, cathy fantulin 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="auto" class="">Thank you for re-sharing!</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 5:14 PM Riantee Rand 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Smoking on the Equinox<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the silence of the forest<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">my smoke rises<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">blurring the edges<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">softening shapes, lines, colors,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">enticing the formless to remain undefined<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">unspoken, <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">unnamed.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is no grounding to the vision floating by,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I can load <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">whoever wants to go on this ride with me<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">without adding any heaviness<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">for in vision weight does not exist,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and in this lightness of being <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I breathe a sight of relief.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Equal night and day, <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">days and nights. . . <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Equanimity ascertained<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am free from comparing:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">every one<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">every thing <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">perfect for its own purpose,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no waste<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no sins<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no mistakes<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no more decision, <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no more opinion.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I leave no trace on anyone<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">or anything.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I go up in smoke.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Smoke is pleasure I have been told<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and pleasure is smoke,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">when I blow this smoke into my silence<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and offer it to the universes <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">as a blessing to our
deepest humanity<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">to my brothers and sisters,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">to all my relations,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">the ‘otherness’ is gone, <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I dissipate with the smoke.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am all pleasure.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">I am smoke. . .</span></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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