<div dir="ltr">How delicious, and how magic, just little facades... and the bech, oh heaven Robin, that is how it looks.<div>🧡<br></div><div>C</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 6:04 PM mariposa 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Mmmmmm. Me encanta tus poemas, siempre.<br>
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Joe and I are in La Manzanilla, staying not far from Nansee Littletree and Casa Luz. It is heaven.<br>
And today I went to the La Manzanilla writing group, and I wrote! Words, to my surprise, flowed out. The dam holding them back was just a facade. Ha ha.<br>
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Love you always,<br>
Pajarita <br>
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> On Mar 9, 2024, at 2:01 PM, Devreaux via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I wrote this poem quite a few years ago to Ron and Toni for providing<br>
> Spirit House for the community and thought I would share it again in<br>
> tandem with the Equinox invitation.<br>
> Devreaux<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Spirit House<br>
> <br>
> There are no maps to guide us on this journey<br>
> beyond the words<br>
> trust in the earth<br>
> <br>
> At night in the Spirit House<br>
> our ancestors gather around us<br>
> I wear a bracelet of 54 prayer beads<br>
> I whisper the prayers to greet our dead<br>
> <br>
> for the soul is a wanderer<br>
> with many hands and feet<br>
> <br>
> I feel my heart open to the figure<br>
> of a girl somewhere in the field of my past<br>
> She carries my Grandmother's face<br>
> hidden behind her eyes<br>
> so in this way she completes a circle<br>
> of all our people<br>
> opening like wings on either side of her<br>
> <br>
> At night in the Spirit House they come with prayer shawls<br>
> and beads to break bread with the living<br>
> There are no guide posts for this kind of journey<br>
> beyond opening ourselves to the power of the universe<br>
> <br>
> I sing the names of our dead<br>
> count the prayers wrapped around my wrist<br>
> watch the small circle of stars tremble a reflection<br>
> of all our faces<br>
> in the sacred circle<br>
> floating just above our heads.<br>
> <br>
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