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OS friends,<br>
You have no idea how important it has been for me to read these poems
and feel the calling of Open Space at a time like this. Harrison Owen
met with me in January 2008 when I was transitioning out of my tight
narrow secretive job as an intelligence officer and resigned to become
a graphic recorder and go back to teaching Classics (Greek and Roman
stuff). <br>
We buried my sister-in-law on Monday April 27 (Google "Sausalito
homicide" for details - huge story in Marin). <br>
Her son, Max, 12, has been living with us for two years now. Below is
the poem he read (choked out) at the service which he wrote the morning
after I told him the news last Sunday (April 19). She was a complicated
person, and he got that. The funeral was a short 30 minute Jewish
service at the cemetery. <br>
Creating Open Space: I took on the responsibility of organizing the
funeral, buying the plot, arranging for her body to come to Maryland
from Petaluma, etc. But on Sunday before the Monday service the Rabbi
came to firm up the order of the service pick the psalms and readings
and I put the two brothers "in charge", the two brothers being my
husband and his 9 years younger brother, who loved and fought with
their sister. I gardened. <br>
The Rabbi comes over, sits down, and 3 hours later is still listening
to their stories. Marathon pastoral counseling session for the two
brothers. Finally they close the open space, he leaves, the little
brother leaves, and I ask my husband, "so, how was it"? and my husband
says to me, "It was wonderful, but I still don't get why the Rabbi
needed so much information about her when it is only a 30 minute
service?"<br>
Sigh...........................................<br>
<br>
Mom
<br>
By Max Clary
<br>
<br>
I remember your touch,
<br>
like the sun right after winter,
<br>
I remember your face,
<br>
wrinkled,
<br>
like a warn out road,
<br>
I remember your voice,
<br>
soft like a spring breeze,
<br>
but scratchy,
<br>
like a branch against a window,
<br>
I remember your love,
<br>
like a blanket wrapped,
<br>
around a new born,
<br>
I remember your hair,
<br>
golden,
<br>
like a butterflies wings,
<br>
curly,
<br>
like ribbons,
<br>
i remember your hands,
<br>
soft like and angel wing,
<br>
but bony like bark,
<br>
I remember your jewelry,
<br>
colorful like a meadow of wild flowers.
<br>
<span class="moz-txt-tag">-- </span><br>
Christy Lee-Engel wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:38e8612b0904302137p923f074r278d5287f650cf35@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Hi Michael,</span><br
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">That is indeed a lovely poem,
attending to the open "spaces in between"</span><br
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Today was "Put a Poem in Your
Pocket Day" here and the poem I carried around to read to people also
puts me somehow in mind of open space:</span><br>
<br>
<div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">One Heart</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Look at the
birds. Even flying<br>
is born</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">out of
nothing. The first sky<br>
is inside you, friend, open</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">at either end
of day.<br>
The work of wings</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">was always
freedom, fastening<br>
one heart to every falling thing. </font></div>
<div align="center"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><br>
~ Li-Young Lee ~</font></div>
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Christy</span><br
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Christy Lee-Engel, ND, LAc</span><br
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">206.399.0868</span><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://oneskywellness.com/"
target="_blank">http://oneskywellness.com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Michael
Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mjwood@admin.uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">mjwood@admin.uwa.edu.au</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-AU">
<div>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Check out
this lovely poem by Judy Brown,
called “Fire”</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.judysorumbrown.com/resources/poems.html"
target="_blank">http://www.judysorumbrown.com/resources/poems.html</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Michael Wood</span></font></p>
</div>
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</blockquote>
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