[Thespiritexpress] A word from the Wise

[Lavender at mcn.org]

Beautiful ❤️

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> On Aug 27, 2025, at 2:41 PM, Tom Burns via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Beautiful Poem, Toni!
> Love, Tom
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>> On Aug 27, 2025, at 3:32 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>> Katrina!  What a gorgeous poem!   Thank you for sharing your inspiration.  You might consider reading this at the open mic poetry gathering this
>> Sat. at the menco art center at 4:00 p,m.  Many of our Spirit House Family attend and often read…..its fun and another way to share our creative gifts!
>> w/love, T
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>>> On Aug 27, 2025, at 1:16 PM, Katrina Aschenbrenner via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>>> After the Kaballion group I felt inspired to write a poem.  A gift to this lovely cum-unity. Everyone who
>>> Shares, your poems inspire.  Thank you for that.  Sometimes speaking from this place is so soothing.
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>>> Presence
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>>> warm sand, stones & sticks
>>> beneath these bones
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>>> incites a deep, deep breath
>>> of recognition
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>>> blood murmurs through my veins
>>> like starlings
>>> dancing through the cosmic window
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>>> a wisp of knowing —
>>> my place
>>> in the grand symphony of life
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>>> a triangle player’s role
>>> subtle, yet consequential
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>>> as contemplation vies for attention,
>>> cirrus clouds curl around the mind
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>>> following the dark cacophony —
>>> awareness drifts
>>> into another sky,
>>> over aromatic cut fields
>>> back to childhood
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>>> sitting in wonder
>>> among strong, silent oaks
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>>> squirrels spiritedly dart
>>> behind, above, through,
>>> interrupting purposeful ants
>>> gathering their harvest
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>>> with wonder,
>>> my child self watches
>>> enraptured, curious, present
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>>> a big boom —
>>> jolted to the cumulonimbus giant above
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>>> sweet scent of wet, warm earth and straw
>>> starlings scattered,
>>> the cerulean scape hidden
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>>> a single frog sings its gratitude —
>>> and then,
>>> a grand chorus erupts
>>> 
>>> Katrina
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>>>> On Aug 27, 2025, at 6:54 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>>>> From the mouth of innocence!
>>>> Thanks Marc
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>>>>> On Aug 26, 2025, at 08:00, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>>>>> Good Morning Spirits 
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>>>>> ~ "WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, YOU GET WHAT YOU PRACTICE”~
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>>>>> Only Love
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>>>>> <Practice.MP4>
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