<html aria-label="message body"><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;">There is simplicity in this touching poem Scotty<div>and I cry with you</div><div>and with all the souls that hear you.</div><div>With all my love</div><div>Riantee</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 21, 2026, at 17:02, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Greetings and Blessings to All ~ </font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I was moved by some remarks by Rabbi Yasskin in our Recognition Sutras class today which lead to this observational poem I wrote from notes and other remarks made today. </font><span style="font-size:large">It's my intention to read it in class next Tuesday in the yurt. </span></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Peace and harmony to all, </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">~ Ed </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size:18pt">Simplicity In Tears</span></u></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14pt">There’s a sutra class</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on Tuesday in a yurt.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Do I recognize it? </div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There are feelings of love.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There are feelings that hurt. </div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is one soul </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">woven so close together </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">it can’t tell itself from </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the thread of itself </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in an integrated garment</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ever wanting to be shed.
</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is one moment</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">for each breath.</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is relief with </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">every kind touch. </div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is simplicity </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in rice and tea – </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and I cry.*</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Edgar
Z. Balldinger </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva""> April 21, 2026</span> </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">
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