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Oh Riantee -- so full. So rich. So Beautiful.<br>
Thank you for taking us along your journey. <br>
Dani<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/3/25 9:15 AM, Riantee Rand via
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face="Times New Roman, serif">The Last Harvest</font></p>
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face="Times New Roman, serif">My lifelong love is slowly
dying.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">On my
early morning walk I come to a field of daisies</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">and I pick the brightest,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">plucking one petal at a timeless
time </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">to mark our way to the finish.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">“<font
face="Times New Roman, serif">What is this life about?” I ask
the daisy</font></p>
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<p
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face="Times New Roman, serif">Petals aflare as so many bodies
of experience,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">full of faces, events, places</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">full of people remembered </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">with the clarity of an
uncompromising now,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">experience-bodies with my name,
my many names,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">consciousness traveling with the
pulse of the moment </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">through roles assigned by
parents, teachers, friends, strangers,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">a flow of memories projected in
the aperture </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">through which the eternal
observes the manifested.</font></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Half way through I encounter an
obstruction,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">a commitment I made early on </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">to make something of myself, be
someone I could never be.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I tried very hard but I was
stuck and soon </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I did not try at all. </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I just went against the flow.</font></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Against the flow </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">bond</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ed </font>with those bold
Parisians </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">that
fame snatched in their early life.</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">Sagan,
Seberg, Bardot, Godard, Truffaut, </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">authors,
actors, film makers who captured the spirit of the time</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">and
released it on a consenting crowd</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">while
riding its energy to burst out of a corseted society. </p>
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style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br>
</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">The
existential track had opened my way </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">to
this new wave <font face="Times New Roman, serif">of taboo
breakers </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">and I responded to t</font>he
lawless call</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">following
for a while the murmur of that crowd,</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">doing
as they did, trying to be as they were. </p>
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style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">B</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ut </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">when I </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">noticed a </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">new </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">window </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">of </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">opportun</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ity</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><span class="Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre"> </span>I jumped.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">The
spirit of the time landed me in the New World</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">among
those singing in a newfound tongue, </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">adventurers
who drank the magic potion </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">carr</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ying</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">them </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">to other dimentio</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">n</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">s</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">.</font></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">When </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I came to the </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">last </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">few </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">petals</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">the </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">fragrance of each decade was </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">disclosed</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">so
pure it could be received</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">and
given away in the same instant.</p>
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style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">One
more petal <font face="Times New Roman, serif">as </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I listened to </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">the language of </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">my </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">heart</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">bringing </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">back to myself the power I had
given other</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">s,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">and
as the reminiscences faded away</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I questioned the daisy in my
hand:</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">“what
do I truly want at the crepuscule of my life</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">when
my lover is dying?”</p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">It’s
all there, inside, all there with such clarity,</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">the
world, the friends, the events, the settings,</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">a
full 3D color movie with all flavor, all movements of soul.</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><span class="Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre"> </span>Don’t you see? </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Y</font>ou have been handed the
key that opens the passage </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">to
every body of experience until the last. </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Don’t you
see? </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">The
being in all beings is the same being,</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">so hear all the voices </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">without the judgment of your
thinking mind,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">d</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">on’t shrin</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">k</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"> in fear </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">but expand in love</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><span class="Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre"> </span>a</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">s you j</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ump into old ag</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">e.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">It’s the last harvest, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">surveying </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">experiences </font>while
divesting your self of experiences</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">in </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">a</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">l</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">a</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ndscape </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">that is </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">the mind of go</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">d.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Your </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">l</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ong</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">i</font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">ng </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">for the past </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">is love itself </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">filtering through the veil and
glowing</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">like a memory of eternity you
long to return to.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Remember, the self of every self
is god infinite,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">so
jump, </p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">die
before you die,</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;">die
with your loved one. </p>
<p
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class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>*****</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I pluck the </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">very </font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">last petal, </font></p>
<p
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face="Times New Roman, serif">I thank the naked daisy,</font></p>
<p
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face="Times New Roman, serif">I lay it down, I turn around:</font></p>
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