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Moon-Kite Maker's avatar

Remarkable tribute to absence! I especially felt these lines:

“In the end, we wait to remember where we must go. I recite nothing. No gods attend me. My leaving is only, and finally, increased distance. / The mountains fade under irrelevant clouds. There is rain, or no rain; outside the tunnel weather signals flux to those stuck in world.”

How often do we find ourselves standing in weather, which is the emissary of a vast universe that neither knows nor cares about affairs of the human heart? Only to discover we ourselves may be part of infinity, if only we can admit some meaning beyond the everyday narcissism of narrow self-regard . . .

Rhea's Work's avatar

Thank you Joe. I saw your messages and smiled. I’m so glad you’ve taken the time to read and comment, I’ve missed your insightful and articulate remarks so much! You’re one of the main reasons this place matters to me.

It was suggested to me recently that near-death experience may be similar to disassociation as an emotional state; both leaving what one understands as the world only to watch it as it walks away, removed of the things that we have made matter so much in our busyness.

In The Bardo there are recitations to recite as we remove - but we must be trained in these, they say, to make our exit with greater chance of peace. My question was then, ‘What if we have not even these recitations to guide us’?

Thank you for reading. I’m beyond glad you’re here.

Eira Linden's avatar

Wow 🤩

Rhea's Work's avatar

Thank you very much indeed :).

Nora O’Dowd's avatar

So beautiful, Rhea! I love the colors walking past - and everything else.

Rhea's Work's avatar

Hi Nora — thanks for that :). And for reading and all else, as ever :).

Nora O’Dowd's avatar

My absolute pleasure!

Elizabeth Lamont's avatar

I agree! A wealth of riches here.

Rhea's Work's avatar

Thank you Elizabeth! :).

Ray Sweatman's avatar

Too many great lines to quote. Beautiful.

Rhea's Work's avatar

Thank you for reading, Ray. I appreciate it, and you :).