[Thespiritexpress] Justice Ruth Bander Ginsburg ~~~~ Wow~!!!

[roz at mcn.org]

> Oh thank you Ron! This says it all. I am so sad about the passing of
this heroic woman.  May peace prevail

Love, Roz



> Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
> (she left us in body but not in Spirit)
>
> When Great Trees Fall
>
> When great trees fall,
> rocks on distant hills shudder,
> lions hunker down
> in tall grasses,
> and even elephants
> lumber after safety.
> When great trees fall
> in forests,
> small things recoil into silence,
> their senses
> eroded beyond fear.
> When great souls die,
> the air around us becomes
> light, rare, sterile.
> We breathe, briefly.
> Our eyes, briefly,
> see with
> a hurtful clarity.
> Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
> examines,
> gnaws on kind words
> unsaid,
> promised walks
> never taken.
> Great souls die and
> our reality, bound to
> them, takes leave of us.
> Our souls,
> dependent upon their
> nurture,
> now shrink, wizened.
> Our minds, formed
> and informed by their
> radiance,
> fall away.
> We are not so much maddened
> as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
> of
> dark, cold
> caves.
> And when great souls die,
> after a period peace blooms,
> slowly and always
> irregularly. Spaces fill
> with a kind of
> soothing electric vibration.
> Our senses, restored, never
> to be the same, whisper to us.
> They existed. They existed.
> We can be. Be and be
> better. For they existed.
>
> - Maya Angelou
>
>
>
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