[Viva] Fwd: reaching out

[anne bonner]

thanks Peggy! 💐

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:42 PM shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hugs all. 🦋🦅❤️🐚. Peggy sent me this. 💖
>
>  Lockdown
>
> Yes there is fear.
>
> Yes there is isolation.
>
> Yes there is panic buying.
>
> Yes there is sickness.
>
> Yes there is even death.
>
> But,
>
> They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise
>
> You can hear the birds again.
>
> They say that after just a few weeks of quiet
>
> The sky is no longer thick with fumes
>
> But blue and grey and clear.
>
> They say that in the streets of Assisi
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> People are singing to each other
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> across the empty squares,
>
> keeping their windows open
>
> so that those who are alone
>
> may hear the sounds of family around them.
>
> They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland
>
> Is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound.
>
> Today a young woman I know
>
> is busy spreading fliers with her number
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> through the neighbourhood
>
> So that the elders may have someone to call on.
>
> Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples
>
> are preparing to welcome
>
> and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary
>
> All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting
>
> All over the world people are looking at their neighbours in a new way
>
> All over the world people are waking up to a new reality
>
> To how big we really are.
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> To how little control we really have.
>
> To what really matters.
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> To Love.
>
> So we pray and we remember that
>
> Yes there is fear.
>
> But there does not have to be hate.
>
> Yes there is isolation.
>
> But there does not have to be loneliness.
>
> Yes there is panic buying.
>
> But there does not have to be meanness.
>
> Yes there is sickness.
>
> But there does not have to be disease of the soul
>
> Yes there is even death.
>
> But there can always be a rebirth of love.
>
> Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now.
>
> Today, breathe.
>
> Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic
>
> The birds are singing again
>
> The sky is clearing,
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> Spring is coming,
>
> And we are always encompassed by Love.
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> Open the windows of your soul
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> And though you may not be able
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> to touch across the empty square,
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> Sing.
>
> Brother Richard Hendrick in Ireland
> Mar 13, 2020
>
>
>
> * A Song from the Patio*
>
> *I too sing to you across my patio where,*
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> *Oblivious to human fear and tragedy,*
>
> *The Camillias bloom.*
>
> *I sing across the isolation I feel, sending love to you,*
>
> *Perhaps not so isolated, on Prior street.*
> *Arbutus, though never a busy artery, is quieter than normal*
>
> *Its pulse beating to a slower, easier rhythm.*
> *But on its edge, my wild plum and cherries are busy blooming,*
>
> *Enticing bees and birds,  *
> *The brave birds, hummers and all, sing and soar along their paths in the
> sky,*
>
> *Heralding spring.*
> *They seem to say,*
>
> *We have survived the rigors of cruel winter,*
>
> *To sing and soar one season more.*
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> *This too shall pass.*
>
> *Locking down is not Nature’s way. *
>
> *In our frenzied life, chasing the glitter of wealth and success, we lock
> her out.*
>
>
> - Peggy Frank
>
> Now seeing the morning sun rise from 1103-139 Clarence
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/139+Clarence+St.,+Victoria,+BC+V8V2J1?entry=gmail&source=g>
>  St., Victoria, BC V8V2J1
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/139+Clarence+St.,+Victoria,+BC+V8V2J1?entry=gmail&source=g>
>
> “
>
> *I have been and still am a seeker,but I have ceased to question stars
> and books;I have begun to listen to the teachings*
> *My blood whispers to me.*”
> - Herman Hesse
>
>
>
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