<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Great soup kitchen minglings here, good people! <div><br></div><div>Thanks for showing me a soul kitchen that I've not identified with for some time. <div><br></div><div>Ladle up! These are good eats! </div></div><div><br></div><div>~ Ed </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:33 PM Riantee Rand <<a href="mailto:riantee@mcn.org" target="_blank">riantee@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Oh Ed -<div>I am still here <span style="font-size:15px">–– with you!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><i>Very good soup!</i><br></span><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 22, 2022, at 13:43, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">I was so happy to have our grandson, Jayden, join us for Shaking Yoga and Meditation this morning before his buddies came and picked him up for some time in the park. He did real good! <div><br></div><div>This is a poem that meditation and Pathwork of Self-Transformation class inspired in me today. Always a pleasure studying with you all. </div><div><br></div><div>Blessings, </div><div><br></div><div>~ Ed </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size:16pt">Still Here</span></u></div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – scratching on the walls of yesterday. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – knocking on the doors of tomorrow. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – embracing so many moments now. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – like I always thought I was before. </div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This shift in my steady reflection leaves </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">my acceptance tipped in favor of staying. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Here, hold my soul in your hands and warm </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">it from within before it freezes in time, help me.</div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This shift in my idealized self is a walk through </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the kitchen pantry looking to pull some of my own </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">imperfection off the shelf of unknowing and whip up </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">a new batch of humble pie to serve myself freely.</div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Yes, I’m still here – tasting each expectation. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – lathering every dirty spot to wash. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – in contemplative instigation.</div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I’m still here – cradling the infancy of my true self. </div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The more I look into this melding mirror, </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the more I become one with <i>mirror living</i>. </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The more I dissolve this image, the more </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">it becomes its own deflected reflection.</div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">When I recognize impossibility in its full dress, </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I wanna head back to the kitchen of my soul, </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">stir the pot on the stove top, tasting implicitly </div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the spices of truth, space and being here now.</div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>Soup’s on!! </i></div><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a name="m_-5878848287452327701_m_-2710504329821424631__Hlk37055206"><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Edgar Z. Balldinger </span></a></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">November
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