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Fabulously expressed!!! Oh if only you were the reverend at my church growing up…I may have attended more often‼️ I agree that the acoustics & holy presence of grace were felt!!
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jun 16, 2023, at 11:00 AM, lee michel alley via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> Ditto what Ron said. I just love your sense of humor and spirited spirit!!!<br class="">
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ED~!!!!! This link is FANTASTIC ~~~~~ Wow~! Grace Cathedral no less~!
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<div class="">Thank you for your poetry, humor and all around shinning light of the Life </div>
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<div class="">On Jun 15, 2023, at 9:35 PM, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I'm including the poem I read earlier this week in Pathwork class, via Zoom, called "Give." Thanks for allowing me to read and that you actually listen to me read, even if it makes ya scratch your head and say, "HuH?!" It makes me do the same,
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So, it's a month later now than when Lyn & I participated in a 12-hour reading of Homer's Iliad at the Grace Cathedral on May 13th - what an event! I'm embedding a YouTube link of the second part I read/sang about Achilles and the River, and attaching the
part I read for you to follow along if you're interested.
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">What can I give the world today </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that would help it be a better place? </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">I wanna hear what others have to say. </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">I wanna say what others don’t have </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">to wear here on earth anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">My message is no longer clear – </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">In fact, it’s not my message at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">If spoken, I would tumble through it </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">like an elastic gymnast bouncing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">on padded mats in full extension. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Instead, I leave my clipboard intact back on
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">the tracks of some well-worn iron </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">forged like a truth rammed into the hair of
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">an Aries man in graphic spasms ground </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> down south through Tunisian </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">death-trap doors under sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">But I await an answer with more sense </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">than this, where terror is turned into bliss;
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">where simplicity pacifies a soul-saving </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">solution into a resolution of desire fulfilled,
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">and I go stumbling breathlessly into Nirvana –
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><i class="">not the grunge band from Seattle</i> – but a
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">bombastic bliss that I followed here from afar.
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">the parking garage attendant yells at me, </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">and I pay my parking fee, slip through the </span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">still wondering – </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt" class="">what can I give the world today </span></div>
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