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This is my Christmas card this year and below are some of my holiday decor and tree ornaments, mostly hand made. What a busy time of the year for all of us. I rush around, trying to do too much. I have to make myself stop, look around, take a few breaths, and quietly savor the beauty around me.
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Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
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Then a stretcher will come from grace
to gather us up.
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We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty.
If we say we can, we're lying.
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If we say No, we don't see it,
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That No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.
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So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Beside ourselves, and only that, so
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Miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
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We shall be saying finally,
With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
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When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
We shall be a mighty kindness.
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Zero Circle by RUMI
Happy holidays, prosperous new year and as always... peace please.