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I’m out celebrating my 75th birthday brunch. I’m so sorry to miss the meetup!!!! I’ve been looking forward to it for weeks. Have fun everyone!🤩

Duane Toops's avatar

YAY! MARTHA! That’s wonderful! I hope you have the best birthday possible! We missed you so much! But I’m so happy you had a good time! I love you with all my everything!

Jill McDougall's avatar

Happy Birthday Martha!!!

Erica A. Wheadon's avatar

I needed this. x

Duane Toops's avatar

I’m so glad it landed in a soft place for you! thank you Erica!

The Sea in Me's avatar

Always love your thoughtful posts Duane, enjoyed this yesterday from David Whyte. Nice background listening. Though her speaks of Poetry, it would land with artists, all forms I'd hazard. Have a great day!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5IAgXfykRfooT7295mY6To?si=3rDYXFQwSUKRn-B7FOTLyg

Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you so much Síodhna! I love David Whyte! Thanks so much for sharing this with me! can’t wait to listen!

Kay's avatar

Thank you for this, Duane.

The unknowing can be a good place to rest and wait.

Maybe the unknowing becomes the glass through which we see clearly.

Sometimes it is only after having rested and waited, time enough for truths to surface, that we may see that some of those things in the rearview were not really as we had thought and that now the path towards the future has opened.

Maybe resting quietly in the unknowing for a while is how true knowing is born.

Duane Toops's avatar

Thank you Kay! Rebecca Solnit says that “Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists.” Hope is most alive in places that are liminal. It’s teh unknowing that opens us boldly to possibility. Thanks again!

Kay's avatar

My thanks as always to you, Duane!

I hadn’t heard these words by Rebecca Solnit before. I like them.

Thank you.

Duane Toops's avatar

My pleasure! It’s from her book Hope in the Dark. It’s a wonderful read! i highly recommend it!

Kay's avatar

Many thanks, Duane. I will take a look.

Jill McDougall's avatar

"To uncover a melancholic joy in the unknowing" has to be one of my favorite sentences ever. Beautiful, bestie!

Duane Toops's avatar

Jill! I appreciate you so much! Love you with all my everything!

Kimberly Warner's avatar

Compactagility. 💛

Duane Toops's avatar

Kim! I love that you latched on to that! You’re fantastic!

Vanessa's avatar

Again, your timing with these posts !!! 🙏🙏👌👌👌- thank you a million thank yous and I concur!!! The present could just be the best place to be

Duane Toops's avatar

It always makes me smile so wide when you say this Vanessa! It means more to me than you! Thank you! I love you with all my everything!

Manuela Thames's avatar

Duane, you continue to amaze me.

Duane Toops's avatar

I could and will say the same thing about you! you’re ability to so tangibly capture mood and atmosphere always leaves me speechless. thanks for everything you do!

Manuela Thames's avatar

You are too kind!