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David Dalton wrote:
We have just passed the fall equinox, known as Mabon to
pagans, after Mabon ap Modron (Son, Son of Mother).

Also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(mother_of_the_Buddha)
the BuddharCOs mother died not long after he was born, a pattern that
is said to be followed in the births of all Buddhas.

And today (Sept. 26) is the 60th anniversary of the death of my
mother in front of me when I was a bit more than 1.6 years old.

Related to that are the following two poems by my sister Mary:

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1.

G R A C E
_i.m. E.J.D._

She is at home
In a room
Or a poem. In alcoves
Angling a fuschia
For last rays of sun.
Gauging the heft
Of image and vowel.

In her house,
Chairs welcome
Space, form to pour in,
And windows, wordless, widen,
Avenues,
Allowing the light.

2.

the priest

was plump
belly like a soft-boiled egg
face of salt beef
red with fat and indignation--
Humpty Dumpty with a white collar

large in pulpits.
after John's love, or Mark's,
raved of money
named who gave--
how much--
shamed men with broken nails,
calluses
born of net, axe, and shovel;
women bowed over
child-bearing and buckets and bread

thinking, perhaps, of him
the women died on Sundays,
after child-birth and rosaries
after Mass and Sunday dinner

one alder-red Sunday
one more woman
missed the blueberry-picking, the picnic,
slid to the canvas floor
unhanding
the enamel wash pan,
the seventh surviving baby
wriggling in its suds

he was soon on the spot--
a bad apple--
to settle the issue
his Christly way
his coin-temple cool:
"oh yes she's dead all right--rCL
might've been an insect,
a plant, a boat,
some amoeba

two-bit Jeremiah,
didn't know his doings--
did God's work--
vicious, he freed us
from institution's yoke
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(I am the seventh surviving child.)

I have begun one more attempt at my global new age onset
magickal workings at 1652 UTC/GMT September 26, 2025
as reported on the thread rCLFirst We Take ManhattanrCY on
alt.religion.druid (and The UN General Assembly is still in progress).

--
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) rCLEarly morning, jubilators, up to no good, instigators... Sons of long forgotten races, that the darkest night embracesrCY (Ron Hynes & D.OrCOD)

Good morning again, David, and again, good find.

EfyA


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