<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;"><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dear Toni and dear Community,</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Please accept my condolences, Ron and Toni. I am sad that the little, private, time away for you to attend the memorial turned out the way it did upon your return. You certainly didn't deserve coming home to what awaited you.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> I so enjoy reading the Spirit Express posts — its wisdom, intimacy and sharing. I probably ought to have written that the quoted speech of J.D. Vance in Europe is full of lies. Out of consideration for our community I stuffed it and expressed my preference to keep politics out of the Spirit Express. True, I often don't comprehend deep spiritual teachings or political viewpoints but ultimately tap into my heart or my understandings. May all downtrodden beings have the privilege of a life now, that I have. That's probably my cup of tea.</div><div id="Signature" class="elementToProof" style="font-size: 12px;"><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">With love,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Lydia</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> I believe that if we are to have freedom of speech on the Spirit Express, it was good for you to expressed your point of view, Lydia, as a response to the post about J.D. Vance in Europe. I also believe that expressing political views is often divisive and my preference would be not to have them on TheSpirit Express list.<div>But of course, I could always disregard them, pass them over or not open the Spirit List.</div><div>My choice! <div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 20, 2025, at 4:54 PM, lee michel alley via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dear Toni and dear Community,</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Please accept my condolences, Ron and Toni. I am sad that the little, private, time away for you to attend the memorial turned out the way it did upon your return. You certainly didn't deserve coming home to what awaited you.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> I so enjoy reading the Spirit Express posts — its wisdom, intimacy and sharing. I probably ought to have written that the quoted speech of J.D. Vance in Europe is full of lies. Out of consideration for our community I stuffed it and expressed my preference to keep politics out of the Spirit Express. True, I often don't comprehend deep spiritual teachings or political viewpoints but ultimately tap into my heart or my understandings. May all downtrodden beings have the privilege of a life now, that I have. That's probably my cup of tea.</div><div id="Signature" class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">With love,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Lydia</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>