[Thespiritexpress] Esteem Baths

[lee michel alley]

Yes, I really appreciate Ed’s sense of humor! Thanks for sharing your creativity and joy!
Love,Lee

> On Aug 20, 2023, at 8:21 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh Ed again the delighgful play on words, the playfulness with words, the whimsical onomatopoeias behind which is hidden the wisdom of purification.
> Please continue with the Esteem Baths and bathe us in your wit.
> And thanks to John Prine for the big old hearts  dancin' in our eyes
> 
> 
>  
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2023, at 12:21, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dearest Pathwork Lovers, 
>> 
>> It was so good to be in the Pathwork circle with everyone yesterday.  It's always such a pleasure to be in direct communion with everyone doing this work.  It's uplifting, encouraging, promising and hopeful.  I enjoyed reading my "esteem bath" poetry and am posting it here publicly for anybody who'd like to take a gander at 'em in tandem.  
>> 
>> (Warning:  Shower curtain NOT included...)
>> 
>> Blessings to everyone on your journey, 
>> 
>> ~ Ed Balldinger
>> 
>> Esteem Bath <>
>>  
>> It was an accidental time warp
>> that claimed our indentured adventure.
>> 
>> Somewhere in a silicone sky,
>> color whistles white clouds sideways 
>> 
>> winding winds of change around  
>> azure captions written in true teal script.
>> 
>> I wanna read your unwritten words
>> in some incomprehensible accent,
>>  
>> words that make angels whisper, 
>> “We’re not the only ones watching you…”
>>  
>> while you slip insistently into your
>> own self esteem bath to wash away
>>  
>> the distant dirt I made you crawl through
>> when I never realized how bad off I was. 
>>  
>> Edgar Z. Balldinger
>>    January 7, 2019
>>      © Nublin’s Pub, 2019
>>  
>> 
>> Another Esteem Bath
>>  
>>  
>> This bath couldn’t have come at
>> a more mystifying time in my life –
>>  
>> it opens my implorable pores to more
>> possible potentiality than I ever
>>  
>> considered before I came to these
>> crossroads in my crisscrossing life. 
>>  
>> I’m embracing new inevitabilities
>> with some of those long released
>>  
>> inklings and all of these vanquished
>> inabilities I’ve kept for so long on the table. 
>>  
>> Hell, if this just ain’t the best way to
>> soak in a tub as the Big Door Prize
>>  
>> plays in the background, then I don’t
>> know how we’re gonna see the big old
>> hearts dancin’ in our eyes.  
>>  
>>            (with a big nod to John Prine and Iris Dement)
>>  
>> Edgar Z. Balldinger
>>    August 8, 2023
>>      © Nublin’s Pub, 2023
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