<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">How beautiful, Kate … and Jane and Claudia and Nanny-Co. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">When we have peace in our hearts, we are slowed down …</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">When we are slowed down, we are kinder to the planet, people and, most importantly, ourselves.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">In my water aerobics class, two thirds of the way through our exercises, we have a "moment of mindfulness".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Suspended in the water, we close our eyes and quiet our minds. Yesterday during our moment of mindfulness,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I thought about divine love, and wrapped the globe and all her people's in it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">As I was walking out of the Y after class, a dear 85 year old friend, who is also in the class, told me what she</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">recites to herself during our moment of mindfulness. I found it to be lovely, and asked her to send it to me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I have attached it below.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">With love … </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Debbie E</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:02 PM Katherine Chappell via oxford63 <<a href="mailto:oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com">oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<div>“Global Warning”</div>
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<div>“...we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.” </div>
<div>—<i>Pablo Neruda</i></div>
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<div>The violence we do to ourselves and the planet, the fraying of earth’s sustaining matrix- the very fabric of life torn beyond repair: these were in my mind when I made “Global Warning.” The poet Pablo Neruda imagines a moment when everyone stops speaking,
rushing, preparing “wars with gas, wars with fire,” a suspended moment when “fishermen in the cold sea/ would not harm whales”, when warriors “would put on clean clothes/ and walk about with their brothers...”*</div>
<div>May we find the ‘sudden strangeness’ of peace in our hearts, may we restore our relations with the earth and her creatures, may we ‘walk about’ with our brothers and sisters.</div>
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<div>*The Estate of Pablo Neruda, “Keeping Quiet,” from <i>Extravagaria, </i>translated by Alistair Reed, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1974.</div>
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<div id="gmail-m_4778946154243393840AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Kate Cheney Chappell
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