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I just started the Glass Bead Game, cannot wait!!! Thank you!

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What an incredible treat! You make me happy...I loved the breeze!

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I could have gotten lost in that breeze. It was beautiful to watch.

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Ill bet the room acoustics were pretty interesting! Thanks for sharing🪐🤞🏾🪐

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Jul 16, 2022·edited Jul 16, 2022

You truly do see the beauty in everything💜

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how are you? hope you are on the up and up...

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Sending Patti good vibes strength and courage. Miss your posts but sometimes we all need to recharge. Hope all is well for those that see this. Peace and love to you all.

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Steve, stop deleting! I can’t get to your comments fast enough.

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Steve, what’s with the deleting? It feels like “Mission Impossible.”

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Dear Jim,

Ugh, I can’t find the thread where this communication appears, so am just writing, as it were, into thin air, hoping that this reaches your eyes.

I’m relieved to hear from you, sorry that you’re going through a rough patch, but grateful that you have good friends to see you through. Your haikus are lovely, and I hope that you are still writing them even as you are struggling.

My recovery has taken a detour, and that’s been disheartening. Not sure what’s wrong, but I have to - and I do - trust in the wisdom and dedication of my healthcare providers. This has been a particularly hard time because the procedure has already happened, so one can’t (anymore) look ahead to that as a cure. Nothing to do but carry on and have faith. And if not faith, then abundant gratitude for any kindness on any given day.

I wish you - and everyone in this warm community - ease of suffering, and hope for brighter days ahead. I’m sure I’ve quoted these lines from Keats’s poem “To Homer” before, but since I think of them every day, it can’t hurt to repeat them herein, for you, Jim, and for all our substack friends:

Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,

And precipices show untrodden green,

There is a budding morrow in midnight,

There is a triple sight in blindness keen

With warmth and the promise of the untrodden green,

Robin

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Thank you. Your room and garden are simple and wonderful. We haven’t heard from you since and miss you very much. ❤️

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single rose breeze!

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Thank you for the gift of the light breeze and a rose. Please take care of yourself in the heat... the singer Santana just passed out of heat stroke on stage in a performance. They rushed him to the hospital and it looks like he will be fine. getting over heated is a dangerous thing. PLEASE TAKE CARE. 😘💝🙏

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When One Is surrounded by the essential One Is full of himself and can perceive the world in the Way It Is not usually looked at.. if Life can be our artwork then simplicity and essential become art

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If only every room had a breath of simplicity, if only my consciousness would be as free of clutter asa simple room that is more empty space than things not needed, if only.....

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Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022

What a wonderful, mystical title! Of course, it is a mystical place. When I travelled to Florence, the pensione I stayed at was right across from Santa Maria de Novella, although that was 38 years ago! I never got to see this lovely inner courtyard with garden, though. Thank you for the detail and wonder you bring to your posts: it is so uplifting in these times of trouble. Buona notte, Patti, & grazie.

p.s. don't forget to grab a gelato for the heat.

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