<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body 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="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Devreaux via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 3/9/24 12:01 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Spirit House <Spirithouse@mcn.org>, thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </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>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br></body></html>