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Retreats and Retreats

Audio Recordings / tagged Companionship, Hermit, Hiding, Searching, Solitude, Spirituality / April 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
One has chosen his hut to be closer to God One to be farther from man I hope the second has a dog so neither man will be alone
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Statues

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Faith, Symbols / April 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
There is a St. Francis in our garden with a squirrel at his marble feet and a small bird on his shoulder Under the big oak out front a stone Buddha holds firm his mudra calling for discourse equal balance of give and receive As a Christian in a Christian land it would be nice to have a Jesus too If only we could find one of him holding a fish and a loaf of bread in each outstretched unpierced hand
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What Would Francis Do

Audio Recordings / tagged Example, Funeral, Grief, Hope, Humility, Peace, Philosophy / April 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
For Jorge Mario Begoglio 1936 - 2025 Pope Francis the First 2013 - 2025 A papacy based on a monk's modest message closes with the destroying of the ring and a simple wooden casket A casket not to be carried aloft as of old but at the level of the people equal in God's eye The famous prayer of St. Francis of Assisi begins, Lord make me an instrument of your peace This is what Jorge asked and what he and we received

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Foothills Evening

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Appreciation, Beauty, Flowers, Mountains, Observation, Spring, Sunset, Wonder / April 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Purple crocus round your feet Mountains twenty miles away Sun 93 million and fading Can your eye be everywhere
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The Brevity of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Perspective / April 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It is spring here and, until the brain in its spoilsport way broke in It was spring everywhere
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Reasons to Remember Dreams

Audio Recordings / tagged Blooming, Dreams, Flowers, Spring / April 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
PtuP PtuP PtuP spit-pop sounds from blossom bush turning out to be buds to full flowers instantly
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Runoff

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Joy, Melting, Seasons, Spring, Water / April 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The children of spring are racing down the mountains eating dessert first
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Watching Limbs for Leaves

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Anticipation, Hope, Spring, Survival / April 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Watching limbs for leaves Which made it through cold winter Much joy some mourning
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The First Supper

Audio Recordings / tagged Choice, Christ, Christianity, Divinity, Easter, Faith, Jesus, Life, Sacrifice / April 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
As above so below In a life between lives I sit at a table of light Set like Da Vinci's Last Supper A table of light lined with people of light The one in the center the brightest of light Takes a knife all of light and cuts and arm all of light The slice of his flesh drips red with his blood (the only color in the picture of light) To each at this table he offers The gift of his flesh to the people of light (the only color in this picture of light) One by one they have a choice not a last supper, but a first By accepting the gift of hs flesh (the only color in the picture of light) They come to this earth their own gifts to give
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Winning the Three-Legged Race

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Cooperation, Reward, Sports, Teamwork / April 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
On sports day at the little school they tied two inboard legs together and set the pair on a hobbling chase for a colored ribbon at the end of the race Lessons for life are taught here early Running alone may seem swift and wise but winning together is the sweetest prize
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    Indeed!

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    Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!

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    Lovely!

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    Wow!

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