<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;">Thank you. I got so much from reading it again.<div>Can you please remind me of the date for the breathing session at your house and how to get there.</div><div>Somehow I can’t find the poster.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 3, 2024, at 13:06, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">This is the poem I read during Tuesday's Pathwork class today: <div><br><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size:18pt">Origin</span></u></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">Long ago you and I
struggled to be born</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">among the standing stones,
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">underground fire, mineral
rain, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">furrows of imagination
yellowed by the sun. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">Our immobile blood burned
blue</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">even as the wind shaped </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">our serene
incarnation. We deciphered </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">the doors of the earth,
found the one to open</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">on who we would become. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">Our still-closed eyes
strived to name oneness, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">to behold the mystery of
our bodies</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">falling in a rage of
flame, in the rhythms</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">and textures of our
appetites. We tuned ourselves</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">to sow and reap, shepherd
and slaughter, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">to be true to many selves </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">and the singularity</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">from which we came. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">Forging weapons that turn
night to day</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">we meditated on the clouds
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">littered with the psalms
of migrating birds. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">We mourned the wild
horses, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">the range stripped of
native forage. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">The prayer wheel spun us
at our core</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">as we labored to learn
that how </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">we live is what we leave
behind. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">Returning to the solace of
not seeking, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">we need no face or
syllable or seed,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">as we come to know in our
hearts</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">what we cannot know any
other way. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt"> ~ William O’Daly</span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></p></div></div></div>
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