<div><div dir="auto">My friend!!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tara is unable to attend, yet I’ll be there with bells on!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I need my Circle.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Much love!</div></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 3:55 PM balldinger via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Beautiful poem! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><i>"...in the sacred circle..." </i> Yes!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have a wonderful Equinox event. I'll be there in without my spacesuit this time...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Love and blessings to all...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Ed</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="m_1993103248946014210m_9172120214315714717composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(87,87,87)" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Devreaux via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> </div><div>Date: 3/9/24 12:01 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Spirit House <<a href="mailto:Spirithouse@mcn.org" target="_blank">Spirithouse@mcn.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Thespiritexpress] EQUINOX INVITATION ~ 💥 </div><div><br></div></div>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>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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