<div dir="auto">Thank you 🙏 💚💕✨⭕️🔥✨✨🙏🙏🙏 </div><div dir="auto">No words can describe the feelings this invokes. Thank you.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><br id="m_7611808061042186514lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b style="font-family:Arial"><br>WAGE PEACE</b><br>
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</span><b style="font-family:Times"> Wage peace with your breath.<br>
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Breathe in firemen and rubble,<br>
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.<br>
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Breathe in terrorists <br>
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.<br>
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Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.<br>
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Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.<br>
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Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.<br>
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Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothespins, clean rivers.<br>
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Make soup.<br>
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Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.<br>
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Learn to knit, and make a hat.<br>
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Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,</b><b style="font-family:Times"></b></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b style="font-family:Times">imagine grief <br>
as the outbreath of beauty <br>
or the gesture of fish<br>
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Swim for the other side.<br>
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Wage peace.<br>
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Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:<br>
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Have a cup of tea …and rejoice.<br>
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Act as if armistice has already arrived.<br>
Celebrate today.</b><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><br>
 </span></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Judyth Hill ~  September 11, 2001</div><div style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:11px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:11px"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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