<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Contemplative poetry, Ron - Carl's and yours. Thank you!</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: rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 6/27/24 8:01 AM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </div><div>Cc: rnadeau <rnadeau@mcn.org> </div><div>Subject: [Thespiritexpress] This morning of Highs and in-betweens ~~~ Poem titled Apogee ~~~~~ </div><div><br></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" dir="auto"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" dir="auto"><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="height: auto;">The poem below by </span>Carl Sonnen reminds me of high points in my life ~ </i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>but there is more to it than that ~ thinking about high points in my life, I notice I hang there, suspended </i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>like what happens the moment after the sun goes below the horizon and I am still peering into the glow </i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i> in a suspended moment between thoughts…</i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>and then</i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>a transition into the unknown opportunity to experience something new, perhaps much different… </i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>and then</i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>what appears may be curiosity or the next seductive thought enticing me to notice or think something new…</i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>when I am awake I notice these moments throughout the day ~ transition moment as subtle as the </i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><i>gap between each and every breath ~ life creating and recreating...</i></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="height: auto;"><i>💥Ron</i><br></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="height: auto;">+++++++++++++</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="height: auto;">Apogee</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">The inevitable weightlessness </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">that occurs at a point</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">where there is no more </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">upward progress.</p><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">And yet the downward journey </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">has yet to begin.</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">The inflection between up </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">and down.</p><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">The resolution of inertia </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">and gravity</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">held in equilibrium</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">theoretically lasting </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">no time at all.</p><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No right</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No wrong</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No good</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No bad</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No yours</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No mine</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No is</p><p style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">No was</p><div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 16px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">The absolute beauty </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">of nothingness</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">never more or less there.</p><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">And yet it happens every cycle of breath</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">every heartbeat</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">every moment before </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">a thought occurs</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">where there lies a chance </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">to behold the exquisite pause</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">of nothingness </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">where choice exists.</p><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">A chance to alter the equation</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">before something </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">besides love </p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">happens</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal">or doesn’t.</p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space: pre;" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>- Carl Sonnen</p></div></div><span style="text-align: start; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="text-align: start;" class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>