tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134060502024-03-07T18:16:44.493-06:00River-Tree Whispers...and sometimes chuckles. Poetry. The Creative Mind. Humor. Soul inspired.Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-76238500674117064532018-01-19T12:50:00.003-06:002018-01-19T12:50:31.789-06:00WarriorsCombat--the ultimate physical competition. Superiority for the winner, death to the looser.<br />
Attraction. Compulsion.<br />
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<br />
Warriors<br />
<br />
Warriors die on the battlefield<br />
if they don't walk off. <br />
Good warriors die before,<br />
knowing all things<br />
of the enemy.<br />
There.<br />
And within.<br />
The best die daily.<br />
To know.<br />
Soul is life.<br />
Is God.<br />
Is Love.<br />
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© 2018 Ardi Keim 10/11/15<br />
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(Another draft I found. Looks good to me. Why didn't I publish it?)Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-67535216891585926252018-01-19T12:45:00.002-06:002018-01-19T12:45:42.138-06:00cosmic seedin a moment of reality<br />
or an expanse of deleted memory<br />
<br />
time stops.<br />
<br />
a temporal explosion<br />
replaces a reality<br />
. and I start anew<br />
<br />
now I am.<br />
and now again…<br />
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<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. © 2018 Ardi Keim</span></span><br />
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(I came across the above in draft form. I wrote it months ago, maybe 2016. Hope to be more active blogging sometime soon. Life is full and rich. It all happens for the best. --ak)Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-54747045707434518312016-05-09T12:13:00.000-05:002016-05-09T12:13:32.632-05:00Awareness Strikes<span style="font-size: large;">Awareness Strikes</span><br />
--from my morning window:<br />
<br />
Sun-laid lace of maple shade<br />
. on neighbor's roof<br />
. a robin aware<br />
Green on white and blue<br />
. of morning sky behind<br />
This day already blest<br />
. by light and sound.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">© 2016 Ardi Keim</span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-3940606599290871622015-10-11T21:08:00.000-05:002015-10-12T06:33:28.964-05:00The Warrior<i>Combat--the ultimate physical competition. Superiority to the winner, death to the looser. </i><br />
<i>Attraction. Repulsion. War. My experience with the concept. May be complete. </i><br />
<i><br /></i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Warriors</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Warriors die on the battlefield </div>
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if they don't walk off. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Good warriors die before, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
knowing all things </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
of the enemy. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
There. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And within.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The best die daily.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
To know. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Soul is life. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Is God. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Is Love.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">© 2016 Ardi Keim 10/11/15</span><br />
<br />Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-67206088007768894892015-05-10T05:55:00.000-05:002015-05-10T06:35:42.773-05:00Boy. Dog. Woods.<b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On our twenty acres the back fence kept farmer Jones' turkeys on his place most of the time. Togo was the first dog I remember. He got old before I knew anywhere else besides home, school, church and cousins. Oh, there were trips to town shopping at Tipton's and a Christmas movie too.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friend at Nine</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cold nose, black</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Red tongue panting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Togo, brown Chow friend</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sticks and creek and woods we run</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkeys were too slow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Boy Dog Woods</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Douglas fir bark</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">moss on black dirt</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">kid Fort Flint in Fishback's woods</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Togo always with me.</span></div>
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</b> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/18.2px "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">© 2015 Ardi Keim</span></b><br />
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<br />Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-51645562419572309852015-03-05T21:54:00.001-06:002015-03-05T21:54:51.078-06:00
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<b>A Stretch of Peace</b></div>
<br />
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<em> (Don't think too hard on this one. I didn't.)<br />
</em></div>
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Starts with a mocking bird</div>
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hides in a willow still weeping.</div>
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Sun sets the table of inspiration.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes,</span><b>
March</b> … to horizons lost
</div>
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in thoughts
</div>
<br />
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on the thawing song</div>
<br />
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of last winter
</div>
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with its never-ending chorus of
another.</div>
<br />
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Yet <b>never mentions</b> poetic
stretch.</div>
<br />
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Like elastic--when rubber comes from
</div>
<br />
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the family tree of memory.</div>
<br />
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Or is it <b>a whippoorwill</b>?</div>
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Notta lotta money tree.</div>
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</div>
<br />
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<b>This</b> master checks off on all
particles
</div>
<br />
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lit and sonic.</div>
<br />
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<strong> </strong> <strong>Vibrating</strong> endlessly.
</div>
<br />
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Harmonic
</div>
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</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I live. I love. I write.
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Of love and life.
</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong> </strong> <strong> Is</strong> One.</div>
<br />
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</div>
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There is no end.
</div>
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I leave it <b>ALL</b> to you.
</div>
<br />
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Can't say <b>what else</b> my <u>M o t
h e r N a t u r e</u> calling.
</div>
<br />
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Wide mouth and holy.</div>
<br />
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Too <b>loud</b> this language of
secrets.
</div>
<br />
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We <b>have</b> none.
</div>
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Well being is never left
</div>
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without a mind lapse.</div>
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</div>
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Has <span style="font-style: normal;"><b>purpose</b></span>
in forgetting lets the head stuff off
</div>
<br />
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its chronic condition.
</div>
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<b>Feverish</b> before peace
</div>
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to the pace
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of a sun fish.</div>
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Luke warm and <b>perfect </b>
</div>
<br />
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with your smile.</div>
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Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-20726763481310189592015-02-19T21:31:00.000-06:002015-02-19T21:31:06.423-06:00A Convening of Feathers
<em>Long winters may shunt the creative, but a scene rich in symbol caught my eye last week. </em><br />
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
A Convening of Feathers</h3>
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</div>
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Three pheasants on snow and litter
under brush.</div>
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A crow squawks from their side a jump
or two away</div>
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with sisters above on lamp and bare
branch.</div>
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</div>
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Disturbed birds of china retreat by
quick feet</div>
<br />
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then with a call of oriental chime in
low flight west.</div>
<br />
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Black chatter hovers to chase in curious report.</div>
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</div>
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Was there any agreement on the nature
of late winter?</div>
<br />
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Or can birds of cross feather ever see
the others' light?</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I convene with my kind and hope<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
to</span></span> touch heart.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/18.2px "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">© 2015 Ardi Keim</span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0Chanhassen, MN, USA44.861964500000013 -93.532310344.771896000000012 -93.6936718 44.952033000000014 -93.370948800000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-14982477488464752372015-01-16T04:18:00.001-06:002015-01-16T04:18:21.394-06:00Song of Predawn Space
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<em>Mornings I come back. Choose my place and my day starting in sound before solid. Permeates my being, my space when the window is still open. You know? Like the life spirit of a new shore. When awakening is still silent. Listen.</em></div>
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<em></em> </div>
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<b></b> </div>
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<b>Song of Predawn Space</b><br />
</div>
<br />
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Slow the pull from speed in peace</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Retake and slip, and rake the sleep
</div>
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From bright to fog returning faint.</div>
<br />
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I muscle forth 'gainst limbs still
bound</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
From pallet down to love seat choose</div>
<br />
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The peel, the toll of other rules.</div>
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</div>
<br />
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Open book, yet half unwritten.</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Write a seed of peace decipher</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Between the lines then voice, a master</div>
<br />
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Clear till mind choose chapter pages
</div>
<br />
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Lines to x and white-out writing</div>
<br />
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What is the matter gray not wasted?</div>
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</div>
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Stop in halted thought and listen</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Sound the room and sing the inner</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Spring from deep and dream the race</div>
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Now heard the essence of this rest</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The song we sing in predawn space.</div>
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To bless this day as we awaken.</div>
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</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/18.2px "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">© 2015 Ardi Keim</span></div>
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Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-67681693679549264702014-11-20T23:11:00.000-06:002015-05-10T06:23:52.041-05:00Spirit Flight<b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em>Lone eagle above the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=911&bih=433&q=eckankar+art&oq=eckankar+art&gs_l=img.3..0.2311.6300.0.6569.12.8.0.4.4.0.459.1686.0j6j0j1j1.8.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.64.img..0.12.1863.ZHO6xbVFopA#imgrc=d1ybjP3Q_CvsKM%253A%3B_teXnT8XuoDt3M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.eckankar.org%252FArtGallery%252Fimages%252F0308mcd.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.eckankar.org%252FArtGallery%252Fpages%252F0308mcd.html%3B261%3B400" target="_blank">Temple</a>--not soaring, but with direction and purpose. </em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em>I join in the flight.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eagle racing winter wind</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prairie, rooftops, lake ice white</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lone spruce trail of autumn walkers</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Long wait for Spring.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Books and thought of inner measure</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Long the time and little space</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Till joining now in spirit flight</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">And leave these shoes to race.</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/18.2px "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">© 2014 Ardi Keim</span> </b><br />Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-58439839052476110482014-10-18T02:26:00.000-05:002014-10-18T02:26:46.565-05:00Acupuncture with Leah
<em>Next year, starting October 22 this year, 2014, is the Spiritual New Year of <a href="http://www.eckankar.org/whatis.html" target="_blank">Eckankar</a> and it is known as A Year of Spiritual Healing. I realized early this year that my health will be a priority. Because I am responsible for this body, and it is through this vehicle that I go about my mission while on earth, I will maintain it to the best of my ability. Besides regular checkups and conventional medicine for health care, I have found many alternative practices very beneficial as well. Homeopathy, naturopathy, and chiropractic are but a few. Acupuncture is another that has brought relief and healing. If you would like to improve your health I encourage you to check out alterative care.</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Acupuncture with
Leah</span></div>
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“Hi, Ardi. How are
you today?”</div>
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Her smile radiates a
light and loving heart.</div>
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“Hi, Leah.
Relaxed. And anxious.”</div>
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In the 15 minutes
since I entered this darkened room, reclined in a Lazy Boy, covered
myself with a soft throw to the hush of a sound machine and heavenly
music—I have started my descent into an alternate reality, perhaps
a slightly aberrant one.
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After hearing my
wife Marily's appropriate interjections at precise and pin-pointed
therapeutic events, I await my fourth session with the second and
sweetest acupuncturist I know.</div>
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“Oh? How are your
emotions today?” I had mentioned last time I seemed to be more
concerned than usual with some extreme acts of violence in today's
world.
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“Pretty good. I
think it's more what's about to happen on my body in the next few
minutes than in Iraq or Syria the past few weeks.”</div>
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She asks about the
pain in my knees and other concerns since last time while taking
notes on a tab. She'll start with my right hand and wrist. I know,
because that's where she is positioned on her rolling stool.
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I tense up.
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“Let's check your
pulses.” She gently palpates my wrist. Her touch is the kiss of an
angel. Again relaxed, even knowing I have about 10 seconds.
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Now another caress
to the base of my thumb, I close my eyes. I can do this. She strokes
the joint for exact positioning. I hear the rustle of a wrapper as
she removes the needle. Mental attention toggles from the peace of
her presence to the concept of torture by voodoo.</div>
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Owe! I thought I
felt, but not. No pain. Yes. I can do this.
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My mental state
calms again with her sweet touch. More rustling. A slight prick. Not
so bad. One or two more on that hand. A sting. I let my guard down.
Recover. Take control.
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I can do this.</div>
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Mind has yet to
grasp the subtle reality of rejuvenation almost missed in its racing.
Back and forth. Peace and pain. Yet the pain is less than its
intellectual hold.</div>
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She rolls to my
right foot. Tension. Rustle. Tension. She fondles my ankle. Thumbs
and fingers of both hands. Paper crinkles. I can do this. Not so bad.</div>
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It continues, the
rolling, the rustle, tension and touch. Relax or yelp under my
breath. Or twitch of toe. Some with pain, Others I barely notice.
Left foot. Left hand. Rigid, relax. Angel or ouch.
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She moves back to
the right of my head. I speak. “I have a question.”</div>
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“Yes?”
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How far do the
needles go in.</div>
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It depends. On the
hands the are not deep. Other areas like in the muscles or behind a
tendon, the can be about like this, as she meters out about an inch
or more between finger and thumb.</div>
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She shows me the
length of a needle and says it can go in all the way to where it is
held.
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<i>Damn!</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="docs-internal-guid-e567de1e-67fe-2039-60dd-d8b411457087"></a>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">One
in my crown and 2 in my ear. Now pricked, I can relax.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: none;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Have
a good rest.” </span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: none;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thank
you, Leah.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: none;">Yeh,
about as good as the last time I slept with a porcupine.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Not
so bad, really. Amazingly there is no pain. Just that damn itch on my
nose. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Okay.
I can lift my left hand. I see a few pins protruding. If I lift may
head to meet it my itch is relieved. Back down with my arm. Head
back. Ouch! The needle in the top of my head, set very shallow,
flopped back first. Ohh! Owe, owe… I turn it to the side a bit. But
in about10 minutes I have a kinked neck. Attempts at lifting and
flopping back in place not too successful, but I’ll live.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Okay.
Just relax. Think of someone I love. Something I love to do. Making
love to that someone.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Is
that her snoring in the recliner next to me? How can she sleep
through such agony?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">How
about a warm beach? To counteract the AC that just went on. Leah had
covered me again after properly protecting the needles in my knees
and feet with rolls of blankets. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">But
after visualizing, and praying and contemplating and love on the
beach. And flopping and re-flopping blankets and needles, again there
is peace and comfort.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
wonder about the phenomenon of healing. This kind of healing. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before,
I had asked how acupuncture works. A cerebral grasp of the process
would certainly help me control the mental battle. <i>The micro
irritation by the needle's point stimulating a response that
increases circulation and other chemical and electrical activity in
the area...</i> That's what I heard, or something like that. Kinda
makes sense. I love science. Biology. Human physiology. Have a degree
in electronics engineering technology. The needle as a conductor.
Electrolytes controlling fluid balance in the body. Makes sense.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
it is that <i>point of the needle</i>. Stabbing my flesh. Mind
switching from peace to pain. Let it go. Release the pain. Release
the mind. Reclaim the vision, the love. Peace of body and mind. It
works. Relax. Ahhh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none;">Until
my left foot feels restless. It wants to run. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i><b><span style="background: none;">I
</span></b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none;">wanted
to run. To keep it from jerking, I stretch and stiffen my foot. Feels
like a deep puncture wound. I recall the nail through a 2x4 I stepped
on as a kid. The flip-flops I wore afforded no protection. A piece of
blue foam rubber was implanted, but I didn't know it till it festered
out a few day later. I know these 4 or 5 needles protruding to the
center of my foot were goading my appendage to another agonizing
paralysis. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none;">Oh
God, please. where is Leah? When is the Angel</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none;">
</span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none;">returning?
The hour has got to be about up. I hear her talking to the client two
seats to my left, the other side of Marily. Talking, Talking.
Endlessly talking. Enough already. Move on to Marily. Pull her pins
and get over here. I may need 911.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">I
flop some pins and lift my head to turn and see her. Maybe I can
signal my urgency.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Not
there! I hear her, but she’s not there. Everyone in that direction
is sleeping. One is snoring. Am I loosing it? Flop. Relax. Ouch!.
Lift. Flop. Relax. Twitch. Damn. My altered state of mind and soul is
of a near-death experience, but not the peaceful one in which fear of
death is dissolved. No detachment here. Death does seem a better
option. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">So
many thousand milliseconds later, Leah speaks: “How was your rest?”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Distracted
from the pain by her presence and speaking with a surprising
calmness, I tell her of my concern/trauma. I wonder if my eyes show
the residual agony from the event. I remember the deer that totaled
our Nissan one dark and stormy night in Montana. We heard the
guttural last gasp of the doe as she slid up over the windshield. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">But
all traumas eventually pass, and life becomes normalized with time.
If time doesn't stop with death. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">Relaxed
again by Leah's presence. Her voice. Her smile. Her touch--that
painlessly removes the needles. Feet and knees. Hands and ears. And
the top of my head. Like a butterfly gathering nectar the bumble bees
forgot. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;"><i>Healing</i>.
A continuing process to forestall the eventual leaving of this body.
How much is our choices of body—physiological? Our activity or
lifestyle? What we consume? What aid we accept? What about the
practitioner or healer herself? What about the mind and the heart? </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">I
feel the demeanor and care and loving heart of Leah is responsible
for the effectiveness of the therapy, while I must take
responsibility for the mind switch. Isn't it the vibration of love
that true healers exchange with the patient that affects healing of
body and mind? Yes, an exchange. We must accept the healing with
gratitude and love. The mind can overcome conditions of the physical
entity, but it is the opening of the heart to love and re-radiating
that love that assures lasting health. The body heals itself, and love is the healer.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">I
smile. “Thank you, Leah.” Relaxed and grateful.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none;">As
she leaves my side, I gather my keys, my phone, my watch and other
pocket junk. Put on my sandals and head for the door. Like a
pincushion ready for dry-cleaning. “See you Saturday.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i><span style="background: none;">I
can’t wait</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: none;">.
We’ll see.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">©
2014 Ardi Keim</span></span></div>
Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-54620266700539799872014-07-10T22:28:00.000-05:002014-07-10T22:29:24.372-05:00Forest Secrets
<em>. (May not of understanding, but feeling tells--and Light.)</em><br />
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Sunlight dots the forest floor.<br />
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A leaf brightens to emerald and fades
in a wink.</div>
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The scent of wood reduced to earth
since my father was a thought.</div>
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Time stops ... by rest off the trail.</div>
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Flits quick, a phantom shadow gives
away the now-gone bird. Not seen, not heard.</div>
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Grasshoppers from the pasture for her
hatchlings somewhere west.</div>
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Or maybe a thought. No . . . Impressions
nuance so lightly.</div>
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The mind is no match for being here not
touching.</div>
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Heart's yearning still secret to words.
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: italic x-small/21px Arial; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">© </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: italic x-small/21px "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">2014 Ardi Keim 7/10/14</span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-69475044161916290352013-12-14T12:00:00.000-06:002014-01-16T21:52:27.253-06:00Together We Sup<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two bowls hot and fresh </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Chicken soup, salad green red and feta</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Tandoori, basil, and spice of savory love</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Simple. Satisfaction. Complete.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For you I am grateful,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">My love.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Last night's dinner was late, but worth the wait. And so much more.)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: italic x-small/21px Arial; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">© </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: italic x-small/21px "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">2013 Ardi Keim, 12/14/13</span></span></span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-52995409701631647702013-09-21T09:39:00.000-05:002013-09-22T22:01:04.619-05:00The Portrait<em>Seasons. Holidays. Work and Play. Life together. Love.</em><br />
<blockquote>
The Portrait<br />
<br />
Picture six souls<br />
One journey and call<br />
Yet a lonely path and long<br />
Marked by each -- a diamond<br />
The harvest, the battle, and school<br />
Family portrait living Light and Song.<br />
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.Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-86140505027363053522013-09-07T10:38:00.001-05:002013-09-07T10:41:23.410-05:00A Prayer, A MeditationSmile. Laugh. Say my name.<br />
. Glance. I gaze.<br />
. You open my heart.<br />
Your face. Your words.<br />
. Your gaze. Your voice.<br />
. You open my heart<br />
. and lead me to God.<br />
Your Song. Your Light.<br />
. Your Love.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">© </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">2013 Ardi Keim, 9/7/13</span></span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-13963473089807128472013-08-04T06:06:00.000-05:002013-09-07T11:03:38.265-05:00Why Three?<b id="docs-internal-guid-327d4047-4975-4707-43d5-8fb3e31bfc92" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>A
very good article in Business Insider is </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/using-the-power-of-three-to-your-marketing-advantage-2013-5"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marketers
Must Understand The Power Of Three</span></span></u></i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.
</span></span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>An
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Power+of+three"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>excerpt
from The Urban Dictionary</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>also
addresses the subject. And there is much in the metaphysical realm on
the power of three as well. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>My
own thoughts on why there is power in three are:</span></span></span></span></div>
<ol>
<li><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>Outward,
mental, intent, structure:</span></span></span></span></div>
<li><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>Within,
heartfelt, emotional involvement; and </span></span></span></span>
</div>
<li><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>Completion.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>a.
Spiritual and material united in action. Service. Actuality. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>b.
Ultimate. Conclusive. Soul connection. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 175%; margin-bottom: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.07in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>c.
The seat of truth. Eternal being.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</li>
</li>
</ol>
</b><b id="docs-internal-guid-327d4047-4975-4707-43d5-8fb3e31bfc92" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</b><br />Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-81787117145442414062013-07-14T11:34:00.001-05:002013-09-07T10:30:37.219-05:00Survival -- The Bombing<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lest I forget. Or should I? A man then, and now. How can I? Reach back to that lifetime. But now. It is in my bones. In my blood. It’s in my cloud atlas.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Survival -- The Bombing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The feeling -- response of emotion</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sudden recall the last flight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two bombers above, but slower now.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I feel it. Excitement. The power -- that flight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Four engines, doubled. Sensation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See. Feel. Hear. How it affects me</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">almost to tears so full.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So deep the response in my body</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">beyond the reason of mind</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">responding in every organ</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from eyes and ears</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">heart and gut</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to testicles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full, the drumbeat </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">somehow void of rationale. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reason. No. Why. But sure.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There for the love of shear power.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raw power. To fully experience the realization</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of potential. In danger. Of death. Repeated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continues to pull. To pound at the floor </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of my trunk. My gut. And pumping </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blood. Oh, Soul. I am. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How could I?</span></div>
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<em>Summer is airshow season. Whenever I hear a WWII bomber fly over, it is the drone of their engines that evoke the powerful emotion that begs release. I love it.</em><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid--2b6fa77-8e08-4d96-d29c-37eb30e553e1" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>Even dancing.)</em></span></b></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid--2b6fa77-8e08-4d96-d29c-37eb30e553e1" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try to see beyond my blindness.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caution to the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In gusts of hot air</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and white-wood fuzz.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing that words will fit.</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Membership in the life club: Savants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One word, idiot, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">comes to mind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I love me anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my impatience.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fingers dance in broken steps.</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mind penetrates the dance floor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of plastic and glass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not good -- till sunset.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh magic.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I can feel it now</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like Mom's silent prayers,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so loud, nothing else sounds,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but the absence of Dad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Payday. And The Outrigger.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He's home other nights.</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All is good, not thinking about it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So it is a dance of dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Commencement and light.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I made this, I made it with he</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To penetrate the dance floor.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or is it the ceiling? Translucent.</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Light breeze. White curtain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They are both there now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A visit after sunset.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The music we wrote</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not easy but sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These lessons of love.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">© </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">2013 Ardi Keim 6/28/13</span></span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-49186941949848771172013-06-16T17:55:00.000-05:002013-06-16T17:57:32.605-05:00Arbor Dancing<b id="docs-internal-guid-213e25a6-4f22-50e6-3f3a-8f17dbf4d221" style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Father‘s Day 2013</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am a happy dad. Thank you M for your love. And for bearing and birthing our daughters, and supporting my practice of fatherhood. Thank you J and S for agreeing to life with us as your parents in entering this world, and for your love everyday since birth. Family love is everlasting. It reflects the gift of love divine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today started with the inspiration of beingness in the serenity of this good life. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whirligig spins to its place among thousands</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">© </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">2013 Ardi Keim 6/16/13</span></span></div>
</b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-58375783888620234162013-06-12T22:27:00.001-05:002013-06-16T18:01:36.605-05:00Occupation<b id="docs-internal-guid-3bacb771-3b81-959a-d478-80bd115f19fd" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-3bacb771-3b81-959a-d478-80bd115f19fd" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a war of the worlds in progress. Because these are the worlds of opposites. There are but two sides. They are often called good and evil. But there is reality and illusion. There is confusion and certainty. There is occupation and resistance. Offence and defense. Awareness and ignorance. Freedom and enslavement. We have been occupied by a force. Things will never be the same. But the mirror still reflects a distortion to all but those who have seen both sides. </span></b></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transparent. Translucent. Darkness and Light. There are two ways to see it. But only one solution: the Practice of Love.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">© </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2013 Ardi Keim 6/13/13</span><br />
<br />Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-68657792060172164282013-06-10T14:57:00.000-05:002013-07-14T22:22:47.039-05:00Birdsong and Window Lace<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I like to write a preamble to my creative work. Usually done after writing the work itself and placed up front as an intro, this time -- a post-script instead. Just to say here: I love the creative freedom of vacation, and this good life.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Window cover in off-white lace</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with no hint of breeze to show it open</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to that possibility, this June day--still a.m. here.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But traffic on Avenue H says so: It's open. It's morning.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Birdsong only in my recall of yesterday a.m. </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And just a Robin and Sparrows collude.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But better than today in that way.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Where are they--that quartet?</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At home she has a Mourning Dove</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">resting in joy and delight at her words of love</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in vines green, and color. The light. But here, not even</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a Crow. Oh. Wait! As if my thought brought it to my morning.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A cooing. Gently. Lonely and afar. With traffic </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and chatter of House Sparrows. Perfectly</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">rendered from a different yesterday.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And mine. Not Crow, but</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a Mourning Dove.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And a gentle wave of lace.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rest of vacation. Or from it. Never perfect, but full and rich. I rest and write to Marily’s breathing after reading and relaxing to sleep again. Another good day ahead. Hopefully not too much play. R-n-R is what we make it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recalling thoughts of days ago in stress and schedule, and post on Facebook, the dove... Now birdsong. Each note or orchestration is really just for me -- each of us. I hear it differently than you or they. Direction. Deflection. Distance and ambient happening. All sound and events, all images in light--adjusted by aspect and attributes of heart. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s all a song unique to each soul. And healing and stretching and growing. Can even delete the past and paint a new beginning. Color and light. The song and dance of this moment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">She breathes. The traffic. Birdsong and window lace</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-87400283098654953552013-06-01T06:37:00.000-05:002013-07-14T22:28:44.005-05:00Breath Code<em>. Exercise. Of body, of mind, of spirit. We gain by practice. And then . . . Inspiration</em>.<br />
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When it comes. The voice. The song.<br />
Innovation. Inspiration.<br />
In breath. <br />
Inhale the Force.<br />
Exhale the Word.<br />
The word that calls. By secret code.<br />
Repeated endlessly of heart.<br />
To pause. Repeat. <br />
Repeat.<br />
The breath.<br />
In. Out. In. And in<br />
that pause does speak. <br />
Without the ears knowing.<br />
But listens. In silence.<br />
The quiet. To listen.<br />
A song. A voice.<br />
Is mine if claimed.<br />
But never tagged. Is free.<br />
Of words. Of thought.<br />
Is free.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 15px/20px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">© 2013 Ardi Keim<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-57200224956356329582013-05-25T22:03:00.000-05:002013-07-14T22:29:57.710-05:00The Presence<br />
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Listen.</div>
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It's better than advise or philosophy</div>
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for truth is not in the words,</div>
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but in the heart.</div>
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What I say</div>
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is little understood.</div>
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And usually wrong.</div>
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Speak only
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from the practiced presence
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of the Mahanta.</div>
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. © 2013 Ardi Keim (concept and draft
of 5/8/13)<br />
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Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-80092375103590787442013-05-09T23:11:00.000-05:002013-05-12T22:03:41.577-05:00Stone Soup<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<em>When almost awake it is so clear. But without some kind of hook or ladle, it's gone in a flash. Barely a hint of its nourishing savor.</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stone Soup</span><br />
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I live in both worlds now
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and my allegiance is fleeting.
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Dream Master, help me. I am spent.
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Truth shines like the sun</div>
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till it sets without a snapshot.
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Misplaced in mental obligation,
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habit and memory.
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I must write it down,
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or get enough rest and nourishment.
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The morning is fresh, but the canary is
free.
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No concept of one till another flies
through –
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like migrating birds to the mechanics
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of earth revolving.
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Truth I know is the anticipation
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of stone soup.
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Then, after many guests
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and hours of cooking,
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it's back to the heart
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till the words are not mine
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Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-52081951119624086972013-03-23T22:49:00.000-05:002013-03-23T22:49:26.237-05:00moonwash<em>Found this in my notebook. Written over a year ago, I sort of remember the images that inspired it. </em><em>The last line just sort of fit the picture in my mind's eye. </em><br />
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<em>But there is more. The "reality" was from the story written and read by a friend. </em><em>I love the power of language.</em>
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. winter treetops <br />
. point with long fingers
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. 'cross the white field
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. moonwash <br />
. this lonely night<br />
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.Ardi Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531943957899204042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13406050.post-86810107720075821222012-11-22T09:09:00.000-06:002012-11-22T09:28:07.964-06:00Thanksgiving for Love<i>I awoke from a dream with gratitude. But I thought I had forgotten to post anything of this occasion, Thanksgiving Day -- because it already happened in the dream and I was thankful. But I forgot to relay it to those I love. Now I am grateful that the day has just begun. And a good day it is.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For Love</span><br />
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I am grateful for Love, and the Dream of Love</div>
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Thank you, Dream Master.
I am filled with this love.</div>
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I love my family.
You fill my heart completely.</div>
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Yet, there is still room. It grows.</div>
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I love my friends.</div>
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You keep me on my toes.</div>
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Life is rich in this journey with you.</div>
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It really never ends.</div>
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I am grateful for the comfort</div>
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and your counsel.</div>
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I love you and I thank you.</div>
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The mirror shines more clearly now.</div>
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I am grateful for this opportunity to get it right,</div>
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to recognize the Source of Love in everyone,</div>
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to love all as I love myself,</div>
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I love myself and try to live it.</div>
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To love right.</div>
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And left.</div>
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It is never wrong.</div>
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Even in confrontations</div>
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with those I thought opposed.</div>
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Mind only thinks--but does it know?</div>
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I am Soul and still learning.</div>
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In Love. In gratitude.</div>
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I thank you.<br />
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