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On Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:02:39 PM PDT, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp1830acd6yiv1576118741"><div><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Thank you to those who requested the poem read at The Equinox to be posted……</p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">always and with</p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">only love, T</p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">SPRING</p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Look. </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Have you seen it?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Its beginning </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">sneaking up from the ground, out from the emptiness, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">peeking from the tips of tiny branches, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the plum blossoms are covering the trees like snow </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the rohdedemdrum is drumming with pink </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the lily’s….!</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">I had almost forgotten</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">their long emerald stems unfurling </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">caressing the dawn of new light -</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the tease of their white shoulders</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">revealing the curl of a promise</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Look ……</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the bursting bouquet of trumpets</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">blowing pearly notes of silent beauty</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">humming the daffodils awake</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">singing praises with the tulips</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Did you inhale</p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the miracle of fragrance?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Or were you too busy -</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">too hurried….</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">distracted by your list </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or your screen</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">maintaining what you think</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or defining who you are……</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">was it the news</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or the sound of other humans</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">brain washing each other, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">that eclipsed the chatter of the quail</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">and the soulful swoop of the raven’s</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">wings flying over with a message?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Did you miss it? </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the flash of inspiration</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the igniting of a creative idea</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">the directive to call that person</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">of finally forgive that other?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">were you hooked instead by commentaries </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">contradicting</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">and kid napping arguments</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">and the conditioned need</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">to justify a bad mood, there are endless</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">ways to kick the ground.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Look. </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">This is the time of tenderness.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">These are a rare and delicate few days</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">when the blossoms are so full</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">and the invitation to return to <i>your </i>true nature</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">is dotting the landscape like an impressionist painting</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Did you rsvp…..have you checked the in-box of your heart?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">There is a vulnerability calling you</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Have you dared to even notice</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">what is there through</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">this window of opportunity?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Catch it</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">before the wild wind of the world</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or the deluge of radical rain</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">rips the new petals from their stems</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">wilted and torn</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">littered and buried across the tall grass</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Take a moment -</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">don’t forget to look in the mirror </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">of your own mystery</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">shiny through the landscape </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">of each new dawn. </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">This is the time of awakening, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">taste the rain on your tongue, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">feel </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">yourself</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">as blossom,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">innocent as the presence of a newborn</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">open as the new light</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Don’t forget -</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">splash in the puddles</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">pick daisies, plant seeds, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">go barefoot and hug a tree.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">take down your trombone</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">follow the wild idea</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">budding in your heart</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">See how each</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">season informs the next</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">how important </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">it is to belong - </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">to be a part of the next possibility</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">to make love to this world</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">just as it is</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Inseminate your presence</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">into the dark cosmic egg</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">with the fertility of your vision</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">What do you want to begin?</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">What is your yearning </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">that only you can birth </p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">into this NEW WORLD</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">even </p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">AS IT IS GIVING BIRTH TO US. </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Don’t miss it</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Don’t let the judgements or opinions</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or the gossip</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or the fear, or the past, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or the anger or finger pointing</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">or the worst case scenario in your mind </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">make</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">you blind</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">Its spring</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">This has always been the season of promise and awakening </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">It's happening for us</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;">not to us, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;min-height:16px;"><br></p>
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