<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Thank you for this poem Leah. It reflects so wonderfully on this community of love. I never had the privilege of meeting Gracee and Raven, but I am certain they are both love-light extensions of this beautiful community I so dearly embrace. Thank you all for accepting me and my family with such pure authenticity.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peace, love, and joy to all who are both here and have transitioned...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lovingly, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Ed</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:14px;color:#909090" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Leah ‘lei’ Angela Sahagun via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 7/13/25 9:07 AM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </div><div>Cc: Leah ‘lei’ Angela Sahagun <leahsahagun@gmail.com>, thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [Thespiritexpress] Raven </div><div><br></div></div><div>Raven, thank you 🙏🏾</div><div><br></div><div>— found in my archives of poems & beautiful exchanges in our community…a poem written by Raven when Gracee transitioned</div><div><br></div><div>lovelight & tenderness to all beings~~*</div><div>lei 🤍</div><div><br></div><div>{ also including the energetic transitions of my aunt, Tita Glo and colleague Rolando ~ may I swim with you again }</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class="" dir="auto"><blockquote class="" type="cite"><div class="" dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Gracee</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">As you fly through the crack in the universe</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We send some wisps of words with you</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">like a comet's tail</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">following your angel wings</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We met in circle and </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">you described us each in turn</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">As if you somehow knew us very well</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">even though we had just met</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You caught our essence </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We remember in unity </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">the beauty and truth of each </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">member of our community</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">and you reside among us still </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">in the heart space </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">of truth, love and forgiveness</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">And now it's our turn to pay tribute to you</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Gracee</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You Graced the world </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">walking with vulnerable strength </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Your laughter and tears </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">did our hearts ignite </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">larger and bigger </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">counting each breath </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">receiving every serving of life </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">into the bowl of your generous heart </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You nursed us with light and love</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">from the soul of your being</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You were a traveler, singer,</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">and most of all a giver</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Risking your own life</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">while saving another's</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">and never regretting it, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">not even in your last day</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Never, ever, becoming a victim</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You stayed in the center of the universe </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">as a sovereign queen of existence </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">even when facing physical death</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Even in your battle with illness </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You were impregnated with gratitude</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Passionate caregiver in the career you loved</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Considerate, caring, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">compassionatly vivacious </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Vulnerably strong, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">volumes of loving light,</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Your very presence </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">exudes strength and mystery,</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">empathy and kindness cast over your face </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">creating a feeling we will forever embrace</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You referred to your house as Graceland</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">flocks of origami peace cranes </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">a pantry full of healing and celebration ingredients</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Your wardrobe of wraparound garments </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">of Sunrise colors and sunset fuchias and purples </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">A home that the deer surround</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">An enclosed garden, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">and a folly (the nude pure white statue )</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">for all to see </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Gracee</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">The metamorphosis as you transformed youself </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">From Kathy into Gracee,</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">the graceful and free flying butterfly </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Your expansive exuberance, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">your love for life</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">And love for beauty of all creation </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">your smile, your softness, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">your acceptance and </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">your transcendence </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You liked to say, "One breath at a time"</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">whenever asked how you were doing </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">One breath at a time</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">The living in your dying</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">sought transformation</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">and became</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">the world you were seeking</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Your radient inclusive expansive Chi </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">extends out into the universe</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We hold you in our eternal embrace, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We love and at once omniscient, </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">unlimited, indivisible,</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">we all love.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Lovely lady of light singing songs of love</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font class="" face="Chalkboard SE"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">You will be missed</span></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br>On Jul 13, 2025, at 10:40 AM, Roz via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">May Raven have a blessed and peaceful journey and experience the Love <div>Thanks Ron for letting us know.<br><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large">🩷🙏🏼💐</span></div><div><font size="-apple-system-body">Roz</font><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 13, 2025, at 12:21 AM, Giovanna Pagano via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:-apple-system-body">All love </span></div><span style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large">❤️🪽🦋</span><div><font size="7"><br></font><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 12, 2025, at 9:55 PM, Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><b>RAVEN</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~Thank You for You</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">Departed from her body in the early hours of today</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">Love to you Raven on your journey to where you never left</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">Only Love </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div><james-webb-telescope-photos-2023-04.webp></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>