[OSList] Chris Weaver

[Chris Corrigan via OSList]

Love this Christy. I'm at a loss. Chris was dear to me in those years as well sharing poems and beautiful images and mutual friends. And I too never got to meet him in person. 

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
www.chriscorrigan.com


> On Sep 21, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Christy Lee-Engel via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Birgitt.
> 
> I am so deeply sad to hear about Chris. It will be a regret of a lifetime that I never got to meet him in person.
> 
> Years ago, Chris and Ashley Cooper and Eiwor and Jeff Aitken and I spent some exquisite months together touching minds and hearts from our different parts of the world, in the Open Space of Chris' long gone blog, Metaphorest Walk.
> 
> Here is a poem he sent me when he decided to spend less time online and close his blog. So many blessings. So so sad.
> 
> candlemas 
> for christy
> Feb 3 2005
> 
> The project of building is the project of ten thousand lifetimes.
> but looking deeply, we see it has already been realized.
> The wonderful wheel of transformation is always leading us ahead.
> Take my hand and you will see that we have been present together
> for a long time in this wonderful existence — Thich Nhat Hanh
> 
> placing in your hands a message
> not sealed like an envelope, but open
> like a flower:
> 
> i have arrived
> i am home
> 
> home safe, home free
> 
> journeys there are
> on the cliff-edge above the sea
> that require leaving home,
> that require their own ending
> 
> through my smoldering thickets i returned
> to these exquisite ruddy stone garden walls,
> stepped through the archway
> 
> beloved eyes met, beloved hands touched,
> an ancient branch of seed pods was given me,
> each pod the keeper of a fierce
> & delicate rainbow flame.
> did you not know, she asked,
> that this is yours,
> that each flames’ life breath
> arrives through you?
> 
> this anxiety today
> moment of candlemas
> home safe, home free
> each breath a prayer
> alight in gratitude
> in transformation
> a blessing sent
> a blessing
> received
> 
> 
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>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>> Ah very sad. Thank you for posting the news Birgitt. Chris shared his remarkable creative soul with us and this was such a gift. Blessings on all touched by him.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> San Francisco
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 21, 2017 4:23 PM, "Birgitt Williams via OSList" <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>> dear friends and colleagues,
>>> I have not seen posts about the passing of our good friend Chris Weaver and so with deep respect and love for Chris, I note his passing here. Funeral will be Sunday in Asheville, North Carolina for this truly beautiful man who contributed so much to humanity, especially the youth....and to all of us who knew him.
>>> 
>>> Feeling such profound sadness,
>>> Birgitt
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