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<div>Dearest Riantee ~ </div>
<div>Your timing reciting your poem is amazing.</div>
<div>Yesterday, reading Rupert in the Yurt, this passage inspired me to remember these two poems ~</div>
<div>All my Love</div>
<div>Abe</div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Thank you Jenna for sharing Baldwin with the Kin of Mer.</span></div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jan 22, 2025, at 6:02 AM, Devreaux via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>Dear Riantee,</span><br>
<span>I was so touched by your beautiful poem this morning...."....I find myself in the eternal immensity of the place that never changes"....so helpful to read this ...sending love thoughts prayers on the journey. Devreaux</span><br>
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<span>On 2025-01-21 8:37 pm, Lydia Rand via Thespiritexpress wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear sisters and brothers.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>We wanted to thank all of you for your support and love during this</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>difficult transition, not so difficult in fact because it has forced</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>me to be totally and only ‘in the moment’ with no possible way to</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>step out of it. And in the moment there is only bliss, everything else</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>that comes through is so unreal, it just passes. . . And I believe</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>that this elevated state is a direct result of the prayers and healing</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>energy you all sent us.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Charles had one night in the hospital when he believed he was dying,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>and so did we all.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>The whole family and friends regrouped and by morning Charles revived,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>ready to get out of the hospital and come home to our house to make</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>the journey to his true home.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>But with the succor of morphine he has no pain, and he has been</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>surrounded by so much love, his needs so well taken care by many</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>devoted people in the help professions that it looks like he has</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>decided to take his time leaving the planet. He is very conscious that</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>this reprieve is a gift for us all to be able to have a loving</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>closure, With humor he adds that he hopes, for the sake of the ones</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>helping him, that it won’t take too long. He is ready to take the</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>next step if it proves to be needed.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>With love from our whole family.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Riantee</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Below is the poem that I read last Tuesday, written just before the</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Change.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_Change_, you tell me,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_the __only__ constant you can __always__ count on._</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Change.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>moving, cleansing, purifying</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>transforming, transmuting,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>obliterating.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>A brief rest, a deep breath.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I settle down, look around, find my footing, reassess,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>and then</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>another run,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>change, movement, transformation, purification, annihilation. . .</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_Can anything else go wrong?_</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_ I need to stop this!_</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Tension, stress,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>then fear, panic, despair:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_Why me?_</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_Wait a minute_ I tell myself! _Wait!_</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_ Don’t totally lose it, stay calm, keep control,_</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_ You can put things back in order._</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_Not to worry, _you console me, _you know one thing for sure, _</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>_it will change, everything always changes!_”</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Where do I find solidity then,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>a place where to put my foot down,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>settle on stable ground, be safe?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>When the fear demon opens its mouth wide to devour me</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>who do I turn to?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>When the beast crushes me down and tramples me</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>until I have no more strength for resistance</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>how can I possibly control anything?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I can’t even find my breath!</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>So,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I give up, I surrender, accept what is,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>what else can I do?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>And suddenly. . . a deep silence.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Like a gentle mist, serenity settles upon the earth.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I find myself in the eternal immensity</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>of the place that never changes,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>that blissful place that has always been</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>and will always be,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>that place without attributes,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>that place where I can only exist</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>in the one reality that no word can describe,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>the only reality that will ever be,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>love.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>As there is no beginning to my being</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>there is no end to my becoming,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>and that</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>will never change.</span><br>
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