<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="">So touching, remembering Oasis, and then the poem from Khalil Gibran.<div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">with love, Lee<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2023, at 10:44 PM, rnadeau 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 charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">There are times when we swim in tears…</span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">~This from Paloma in Costa Rica (a well earned vacation):</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="xhkezso x1cpjm7i x1s928wv x193iq5w x13faqbe x1gmr53x x1943h6x x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1n0sxbx x1fgarty xo1l8bm xudqn12 xzsf02u xeuugli x6prxxf xvmahel x3x7a5m x1lliihq xlh3980 xvq8zen" dir="auto"><div class="x1mh8g0r x11i5rnm xat24cr xdj266r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" class="">It is said that before entering the sea</div><div dir="auto" class="">a river trembles with fear.</div><div dir="auto" class="">She looks back at the path she has traveled,</div><div dir="auto" class="">from the peaks of the mountains,</div><div dir="auto" class="">the long winding road crossing forests and villages.</div><div dir="auto" class="">And in front of her,</div><div dir="auto" class="">she sees an ocean so vast,</div><div dir="auto" class="">that to enter</div><div dir="auto" class="">there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.</div><div dir="auto" class="">But there is no other way.</div><div dir="auto" class="">The river cannot go back.</div><div dir="auto" class="">Nobody can go back.</div><div dir="auto" class="">To go back is impossible in existence.</div><div dir="auto" class="">The river needs to take the risk</div><div dir="auto" class="">of entering the ocean</div><div dir="auto" class="">because only then will fear disappear,</div><div dir="auto" class="">because that’s where the river will know</div><div dir="auto" class="">it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,</div><div dir="auto" class="">but of becoming the ocean.</div></div><div class="x1mh8g0r x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" class="">~ Khalil Gibran<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="x1kky2od xlup9mm xgzva0m xdj266r x1j61x8r x3nfvp2 x1fcty0u xhhsvwb xat24cr xxymvpz"><img alt="💚" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t94/1/16/1f49a.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span></div></div></span><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2023, at 7:02 PM, 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="">So kind of you to remember Marc. It's wondrous to be remembered, whether in form<div class="">or formless. Thank you. </div><div class="">D.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 6:34 PM Yasskin Marc 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-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span id="cid:186e30036c899e6150c1" class=""><hok-2b.jpg></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Be the water</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">that the pebble of your life</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">drops into.</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;">Oasis</div><br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br class=""></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>