<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Thank you for the privilege of studying, creating and reading together in Tuesday Pathwork class.  Between shaking yoga, meditation and class time, I'm often inspired to write what wells up within me and comes gushing out in what I sometimes call, "goulash poetry" - lots of many things baked into one dish! </font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I wrote most of this piece a few weeks ago during and after a Tuesday Pathwork session - thank you everyone for your delectable influences through experiences in our lives together.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Peace, love and blessings, </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">~ Ed </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> </font><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:18pt">For Those About To
Partake…</span></u></div>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Here, on this plate before
us – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">the dish, the cup, the
fern in the forest – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">and to Rosa Parks who said,
</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt">“I <u>will</u> <u>not</u>
move to the back of this bus,”</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">–
you stood so tall while remaining seated – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt">Thank you, Sister Rosa</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt">! </span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Here, at the feast of humanity’s
table – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">there are portions for the
ailing and the able; </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">we can share with the
young and the old;  </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">the tipping gypsy, the
impermanently stable – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">each<i>
</i>one of us bold enough to sing </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">in
our symphonically unified distorted voice – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt">one song</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt">.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">For those about to partake
–</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">each piece we cause to shake,
</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">creates a more full union
– </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">one
harmonic hum at a time –  </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">an abundant bliss of
eternal peace with every soul – </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">table
or not, <i>here we come</i>.   </span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">For those about to receive
this time –</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">stay…
give… go…  </span></p>

<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">now, wake up.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Evolution clears a murky
mind </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">this very moment, shifting
every universe </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">ever made manifest </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">into
one breath at a time.  </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">          <i>Huu…aayyy…iiii-aaayyy</i></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a name="_Hlk37055206"><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Edgar Z. Balldinger </span></a></p>

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Nublin’s Pub, 202</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">4</span></i></p>

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