<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">WOW Too!<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dennis</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 7, 2024, at 10:03 AM, lee michel alley 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 http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I was cleaning rabbit hutches at the local animal shelter in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, and missed this feast of word-play! Glad you shared it here!<div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Love,Lee<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 6, 2024, at 6:00 AM, Paloma Carmona 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 http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="font-size:-apple-system-body" class="">🤩 WoW! </span><div class="">Absolutely stunning!🥰</div><div class=""><span style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large" class="">💛P </span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Love long and prosper </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 6, 2024, at 1:26 AM, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class="">Here is the entire prosaic poem of which I read most parts this morning in Pathwork. </font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Blessings of connection to all, through all, and in all... </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">~ Ed <br class=""></font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="4" class="">P.S. this is the <i class="">"getting close to finished"</i> version of the poem I read today in Pathwork. I seem to change parts every week to this poem as I find changes in myself changing... </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size:18pt" class="">Endings, Beginnings and
a Few Things In Between</span></u></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="gmail-long-line"><i class=""> </i></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="gmail-long-line"><i class="">And beside the grassy banks of a slow,
transparent stream,</i></span><i class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="gmail-long-line"><i class="">You seemed to contemplate an unforgiving
history,</i></span><i class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="gmail-long-line"><i class="">and the difference between clouds and their
reflection.</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="gmail-long-line"><i class=""> </i></span><span class="gmail-long-line" style="font-size:12pt"><i class=""> </i></span><span class="gmail-long-line" style="font-size:12pt">~ N. Scott Momaday</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Another new opportunity blows
across this thinly veiled life of mine.</span><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">It
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">clutches my
eternal fabric as if all my garments have been left unworn.</span><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">My other suit </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">(not the
one from my birthday)</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> awaits a good wear this year. Although it continuously alters itself, I’m
aware that it will be worn, torn, and sworn to some salient secrecy </span>in
mystery’s<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> midst. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">That with which I
identify is clearly obscured by my own plain view with far greater frequency
than it once was. From context to content,
in a constant array, presence plays in silence where nothing is left unsaid. Where words stir friction in a slurry of
ritual’s need, perfect incineration prevails.
</span><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><br class="">
<br class="">
<span style="" class="">That which
triggers happiness is an unloaded, disassembled gun. I move toward its mouth with ease. A
friend inquires, <i class="">"Is that a trigger for you?"</i> I holster
my inadequate response momentarily – spilling favor in turn – a
transformational skill I picked up in high-school watching Cheech & Chong
educational films. There were other
trickery bits I learned along the way. I’m
not sure that anyone was aware of what I absorbed, but it all worked out in the
end as far as I’m concerned. </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Then I reply in repose
to my friend, <i class="">“No, I don’t feel
triggered so much as I feel bludgeoned by public opinion pulverizing my pineal perception
with a common misuse of language without revealing how each one of us are so
uniquely connected to our collective disconnection.”</i> My friend kicks the dirt in circles as I go on,
“<i class="">I still learn from some sense of history – his, hers, theirs, my own – that
we </i>(a repetitious lot)<i class=""> are often misinformed by our own factually elaborate
gaps, milking soft truths from the core of all cores, whipping our own
withering tit to the tata-tat-tat of a synaptic trap wrapped in this society’s great
misinterpretation.”</i> </span><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><br class="">
<br class="">
<span style="" class="">Jesus told
me once, </span><i class=""><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">“Three drops of
purple reigns a fistful of rock.</span><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)" class=""> A grain of sand, possibly once a mountain, is
on the move again.”</span></i> <span style="" class="">I’m not certain
why he told me so, and now there’s an overflow of suspicious redemption layered
in a clairvoyant residue beside me. I
pack lightly for the next trip. “<i class="">No
choice but to choose</i>,” or so I’ve heard it said. Some of these sand granules remain unshifted
in listless winds of wonder. I came to find
grooves askew in chasmic dispensations, lain low in the super flow of lava lamp
transfusions; an hourglass built on concurrent half hours, one hour at a time
when time devours its own identifiable transmutation. </span><br class="">
<br class="">
<span style="" class="">Matches
strike tinsel lips on mercury kisses stuck to uneven bricks out of reach from
finger’s tip to slow-down devolution done, and there is no union dissolved in
the <i class="">“un-one.”</i> This new unity no
longer disavows. It reaches through various
clarities yet to be unseen where sacred bread assimilation begins in line;
a millennial shift in radical disbeliefs roughly goes pervasive, and a rickety,
rocky fella scores rations in a can. No
land left unturned. No turnkey turns out
so low. No last rite reads its own ceremonial
farewell. And for none of that, there
shall be one guarantee. </span><br class="">
<br class="">
<span style="" class="">All this to
say that each adventure unties itself at the base, letting loose its own choiceless
choosing of a traceless trace soothing the beast within, without...</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">hesitation… </span><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">hunger…
</span><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 1in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">emptiness…</span><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 1in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> despair. </span><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><br class="">
<br class="">
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""></span></span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a name="_Hlk37055206" class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> </span></a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">Edgar Z.
Balldinger </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> January 3 – March 5, 2024</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> ©
Nublin’s Pub, 202</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">4</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> </span></i></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div></div>
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