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