tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74924731911761292782024-02-19T01:58:00.667-08:00In The Moment - Poetry, Stories and PhotographsLu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-53435924824931705522020-11-17T10:42:00.000-08:002020-11-17T10:42:22.811-08:00Healing Prayer<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Choose healing for
yourself and for your nation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Choose wellness.
Choose peace.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Deep within your
heart, you have all the healing</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Potential that you
need at this time.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As you choose healing,
as you breathe it in,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Go into your heart –
focus there.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A vast well of healing
is available to you.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This changes
everything, this move to heal.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Healing hurt and wrong
means letting go of the pain of it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It means forgiveness.
It means release.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is profoundly
transforming.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It makes the
impossible, possible.</span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It rights centuries of
wrongs and liberates</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You and your loved
ones from suffering.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For, of course, those
who love you and care for you suffer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As you suffer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This call to release,
to forgive, to accept the healing</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Energies that well up
from the very ground under your feet</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Is sounding in Nature
now.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Go into your heart.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Turn to Nature,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Even a city park or
tree will give you this</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Healing potential now.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This transforms our
world. This remakes us – if we allow it,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">If we can let go of
the pain we feel, the fear, the guilt, the anger.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Choose peace. You
shall have it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You will feel better.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">You will heal yourself
and your world.</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-33307203236525645652020-08-29T09:51:00.023-07:002020-08-29T10:03:29.639-07:00I Find<p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This morning, reading online,</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I find</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Inspiring speeches</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">intelligence</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">wisdom</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and soaring rhetoric</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">coming not from some well-known politician</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">or member of the cultural elite</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">but from the mother and sister of a man</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">shot</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in the back</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">by police officers.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More and more now,</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">this is what I find:</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That we lead ourselves</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">are not led,</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">are sovereign</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">able</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">aligned.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"America, your reality is not real. We will not pretend. We will not be your docile slave. We will not be a footstool to oppression... You must fight, but not with violence and chaos - with self-love... Black men, stand up. Stand up, Black men, and educate yourselves." Letetra Widman, sister of Jacob Blake</span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"As I have prayed for my son's healing, physically, emotionally and spiritually, I also have been praying, even before this, for the healing of our country... We are the United States. Have we been united? Do you understand what's going to happen when we fall? Because a house that is against each other cannot stand. To all of the police officers, I'm praying for you and your families. To all of the citizens, my Black and brown sisters and brothers, I'm praying for you. I believe that you are an intelligent being just like the rest of us. Everybody, let's use our hearts, our love, and our intelligence to work together to show the rest of the world how humans are supposed to treat each other. America <i>is</i> great when we behave <i>greatly</i>." Julia Jackson, mother of Jacob Blake</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-79451620518712932632020-08-18T10:14:00.005-07:002020-08-18T10:14:55.893-07:00Strange and ...<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I saw a scorpion this
morning. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Improbably, on the
pipeline path in the low light of dawn, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I saw a shape that looked
like a scorpion and <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Wondered and took a stem
of grass <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Growing there and poked <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">At the shape and <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Watched it move, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Rear up, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Hold that position as a
palpably living thing, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">As a brave and tested
warrior takes up a stance to strike. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I breathed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I wondered. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">I carefully stepped over
the threat of something strange and dangerous. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I moved on.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></o:p></span></p>Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-6523813301623822642020-08-07T07:20:00.010-07:002020-08-07T07:23:17.658-07:00As Breath<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I was forced to slow this
morning <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">and was aided in this by
the hermit thrush and its <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">solemn studied song. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I was forced to slow by
the exigencies of berry picking amid the brambles, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">By the tangle of wild
clematis and the fierce <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Blockade of blackberry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Canes almost an inch thick
and deeply, dangerously armed with thorns. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I was forced to slow by
the steep and treacherous loose rock path up the pipeline. I slowed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">For the careful search for
black and red raspberries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">As a consequence <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Of all of this, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I am now <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Slow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Almost to stillness and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Quiet <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Unto silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-67063865294805501062020-08-07T07:20:00.008-07:002020-08-07T07:22:22.833-07:00May's Emergence<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I’ve been <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">intensely focused <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">on the beauty of the
season, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">on the gardens, the
plants, the soil, leaves, old stems, emerging tenderness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">what needs to be done<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">what can’t wait. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In all of this, I have
neglected my interior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I love <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">the echoes of allusion and
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I feel <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">the deep love for me
inherent in them.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In neglecting my interior,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I neglected to call forth
from within me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">the higher vibrational
being that I am – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">pure love incarnate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">which, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">even as I sit here saying
it, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">writing it, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">thinking it, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span face="" lang="" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">comes forth on little cat
feet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="color: #cccccc;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-5425225976603363282020-01-17T11:03:00.003-08:002020-01-17T11:04:16.837-08:00Expanded Now<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Out at dawn in April snow,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feet sliding on the hill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Legs, lungs and beating
heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Become aware of a larger
beating rhythmic step <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In sync, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">With a season, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">A process, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">A weather system’s sweep;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">The vast wrap-around
Newfoundland and then back down to where I stand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is where I find
myself much larger than first thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Clouds and snow moving in
service to a greater imperative <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Than my step by step
impatient climb – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">That we are as big as
continents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In our containment of
large mysteries,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">That we reflect the wheel
and spin of star systems,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">That stepping stones can
be the size of decades;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">You can open yourself up <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">To this <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In the movement of your <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mind’s eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-66026220080273160602020-01-17T11:01:00.002-08:002020-01-17T11:02:52.755-08:00What You Thought<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">What you thought was solid
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">ground <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">is not solid ground, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">you feel a sickening slide
of subsidence <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">where you expected
strength enough to hold <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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Like strands of yarn or bits of fabric,</div>
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We gather now all the various bits and pieces of ourselves into a bundle of being.</div>
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We bundle them up, gather them together, hold them within our clumsy embrace.</div>
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Clumsy because we are new at this.</div>
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Clumsy because our hands are now so full, our sense of ourselves is so volatile,</div>
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Changing from one day to the next.</div>
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Clumsy because our gathering up continues even when we think</div>
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That perhaps we have got it all gathered in,</div>
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So busy holding all of these bits and pieces and</div>
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Strands interwoven</div>
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While at the same time</div>
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We continue to come upon more bits, more strands,</div>
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And gather them in as well.</div>
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And all of this is done in love, so that we become thick with it,</div>
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Our eyes moist and our hearts open.<br />
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This is done in a quiet imperative of pressures</div>
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Unseen, undefined,</div>
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But none the less real for us.<br />
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We do not slow ourselves in this work of gathering at this time.</div>
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If anything, we increase our pace, become ever more aware</div>
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Of even the smallest strands and pieces which have not yet been touched,</div>
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Gathered in,</div>
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Embraced,</div>
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Included in the wholeness of our bundled selfhood.</div>
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Why? Why do we do this? Why now?</div>
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Like peripatetic families we learn to carry all that we</div>
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Have and all that we are</div>
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More easily with us,</div>
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For we are preparing ourselves for a journey.</div>
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We will travel swiftly and travel far and we know</div>
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And we must prepare for the journeying, prepare for the swiftness</div>
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And the distance and the unknowns</div>
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Of our becoming.</div>
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So we gather all of our parts and pieces, all of our strands and strains of selfhood,</div>
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All of our love and all of that which is not yet love which still we have within us</div>
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And we bundle it all into a more or less unified selfhood,</div>
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A more or less streamlined package,</div>
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So that we can go the distance</div>
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At a pace</div>
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That will</div>
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Find us</div>
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Where we should be</div>
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At the dawning</div>
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Of a new Age.</div>
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-65508120315158507322016-05-02T10:57:00.002-07:002016-05-02T10:57:23.902-07:00Water and LightHere are photographs of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.<br />
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These are a celebration of the exceptionally clear and clean, almost silken water of the pond and the beautiful sunset that presented itself to me when I was there. These are presented to you in the order in which they were taken as the light changed and the night came in.<br />
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And here are three more. Two were taken at a Wildlife Refuge near Concord, Massachusetts.<br />
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The third one was taken at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts.<br />
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-28013670261979218092016-03-29T07:30:00.002-07:002016-03-29T07:30:17.745-07:00Another offering of Words and PhotographsBack in 2005, I read a book by a woman named Diane Stein. It was called Earth Changes and was talking about the possibility of catastrophic events on our planet at or around the year 2012.<br />
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The year 2012 has come and gone and we are still here shining our radiance.<br />
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One small part of that book really spoke to me though. She mentioned that when we walk out of doors and have love for the world in our hearts, we send that energy to the Earth and it helps the Earth to be well and to heal in the places where it is damaged.<br />
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Over the years since I read that, I have kept it in mind and in heart and have explored it.<br />
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I recently created a YouTube project called 'Walking This Sacred Earth' that explores this idea and expands on it.<br />
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So far, there are four parts to the YouTube series. I plan to create a fifth part, Walking This Sacred Earth Off Road sometime in 2016.<br />
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For the first four parts of the series, which I really enjoyed creating and I am sure you will enjoy as well, click on these links:<br />
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Part 2 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ab16zP8N0Y" target="_blank">Walking in the City</a><br />
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Part 3 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4tgpkvtj0" target="_blank">Walking in the Suburb</a><br />
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If you have read Annie Dillards' <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2280883-pilgrim-at-tinker-creek" target="_blank">Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</a> </i>and enjoyed it, you might like to try reading Thoreau's <i>Walden</i>.<br />
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I read<i> Walden</i> when I was in high school and fell in love with the book. I bought a copy that contained images of Walden Pond and have had the intention to visit the place for many years.<br />
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So, on a hot, buggy, muggy afternoon, after long hours of driving, I arrived at Walden Pond and was instantly struck by the feel of the place. I suddenly didn't mind the bugs or the threat of rain. I didn't mind that the place was thronged with people. I didn't mind that lingering there would delay my dinner hour. I was suddenly filled with a strange and wonderful feeling of peace and quiet joy.<br />
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My travelling companion noticed it too and remarked upon how the 'energy' felt wonderful there. I agreed with her wholeheartedly.<br />
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It is no wonder to me now why Thoreau chose to live there. There is no visible outlet or inlet for the water of this very deep pond (over eighty feet deep). The water is crystal clear and feels silky to the touch. It is of an exceptional quality.<br />
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The pond has been made a <a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-north/walden-pond-state-reservation.html" target="_blank">state park</a> and is protected from development. It has naturally sandy shores and a sandy bottom and is popular as a place to swim.<br />
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I have never seen a pond with such crystal clear and clean water in it. I am definitely going back to Walden Pond!<br />
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Here are some photographs, although they don't do justice to the place.<br />
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A forest of pine, oak and maple surrounds the pond on all sides.<br />
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Its banks are naturally sandy and it has a feel to it that bring peace into my heart.<br />
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This photograph is my attempt to show how clear and clean the water is. Looking down into about 10 centimeters of water.<br />
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The hillside is steep above the pond on this side. We climbed up until I was breathless, which didn't take long because of my asthma. Still, you can see how high we are as I looked down onto the pond to take this photograph.<br />
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Walden Pond sits in a natural bowl of wooded hills. It is very close to a major highway, but we heard only the sound of cars passing more slowly through the state park as a two lane road brings visitors to the pond.<br />
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-46218317644339774382015-05-30T12:38:00.003-07:002015-05-30T13:09:29.027-07:00Garden in the WoodsIn Framingham, Massachusetts, USA there is a botanical garden specializing in species native to the northeast of North America. It is maintained by the <a href="http://www.newenglandwild.org/" target="_blank">New England Wild Flower Society</a>.<br />
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I spent a few hours there recently. Here are some photographs that I took while I was there.<br />
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This is a celandine poppy, or wood celandine. It's not a rare species, but it's cheerful and has medicinal properties, so I like this plant. Its sap is yellow and is said to heal warts.<br />
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This is a double flowering trillium at the peak of its bloom and this little inch worm seems quite taken by it.<br />
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These are yellow lady slipper orchids at the peak of their blooming. Here in southern Quebec we have a pink lady slipper which is perhaps not quite as showy as these.<br />
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These are simple white trilliums, one of my favourite spring flowers and the provincial flower of Ontario.<br />
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These are spring phlox and after years of wanting to have this plant in my garden I was able to find and plant some just this year.<br />
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This is the flower of an azalea bush and I just happen to have caught it from a particularly pleasing angle. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.<br />
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-77727105288295148572015-05-30T12:24:00.003-07:002015-05-30T13:15:42.094-07:00The Ocean at DawnI stayed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockport,_Massachusetts" target="_blank">Rockport, Massachusetts</a> after spending the afternoon at Sandy Point (see previous post). The next morning I brought out my camera for more images of the northeast coast of the United States.<br />
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The sound of the waves was hypnotizing. I only left this spot because I was getting hungry.<br />
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I watched swallows as I sat on a rock in this cove.<br />
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I couldn't resist taking a photo of this heavenly light shining onto the horizon.<br />
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-9385890115737559922015-05-30T12:16:00.003-07:002015-05-30T13:19:35.513-07:00At the Sea ShoreIn mid-May, I went to <a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-north/sandy-point-state-reservation.html" target="_blank">Sandy Point State Reservation</a> in Massachusetts, USA. This is the very tip of a long outer bank - basically a 10 kilometer long sand bank. Most of this area is called <a href="http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Parker_River/about.html" target="_blank">Parker River</a> Wildlife Refuge and is a place for migrating birds to rest and for other species of birds and wildlife to nest and raise their young.<br />
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Here are some images from the afternoon that I spent there.<br />
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The rocks were such beautiful colours!<br />
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The sand was purple.<br />
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This beach is a place where nature litters. This is a wild place where people's activities are very limited. Mostly people watch for birds and enjoy the view.<br />
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I enjoyed the expanse of sky on this cloudy afternoon. The sound of the waves was so soothing as I walked barefoot in the sand.<br />
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-51036487514032831132015-03-16T06:40:00.001-07:002015-03-16T06:40:14.610-07:00Another OfferingI would like to announce here that I have created an ode to the beauty of trees on youtube.<br />
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I hope you enjoy it. I like to display photographs on youtube because you can fill your screen with the image. I like to bring words and images together, so I may do more projects like this one and if I do, I'll mention them here and provide a link.<br />
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Blessings of Earth's beauty be yours.<br />
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<br />Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-38031046261392763042014-04-30T10:02:00.001-07:002014-04-30T10:02:29.620-07:00Joy Dance<div class="MsoNormal">
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Lu Emanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930580594649536721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492473191176129278.post-86947741087062132852014-04-23T07:56:00.001-07:002014-04-23T07:56:13.999-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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