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Sun stops, rests on the ecliptic, the wind sings in our senses: a poem came to me 70 years ago among the whistling withered bents. The wind has a past, is here and goes hence. The hills we see here, our horizon has many old names. There is a pair, Yarnspath Law and Cushat Law, named for the wings of the Eagle and the Dove.

Thanks enormously for your poetry and wishing you and yours a restful pause on the sun's path and the moon high in your sky.

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Thanks Phillip! You breathe in life and you breathe out poetry. Wow. Happy Soulstice. Blessing you a pause to ponder those wings and may the wind whistle you a love song. Thanks for being here! All the best for a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Big hugs. 🙏❤️

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Winged blessings... thanks

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Beautiful. Your words have brought a stillness to me that feels different, fuller, deeper, like Winter Solstice. What a gift you have for weaving word-spells, expressing energy in word form. Thank you.

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Thanks so much Lizzie! I love your Tarot weaving! Happy Soulstice! Thanks for reaching out! 🙏❤️

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Oh Jamie, you always find such beautiful, extraordinary words for this ordinary world! I am so in awe of your process, your creations and your gifts as a wordsmith! I wish you the happiest Christmas time filled with laughter, warmth and joy! Thank you for always shining your light and igniting the flame of creativity in all of us with it! It's Christmas morning in my heart each day thanks to you! Lots of Love and Merry Christmas!

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Thanks Sadhbh. Like a child on Christmas morning. Blessings. Thanks for Being-Here. Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙏❤️

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A beautiful Christmas gift here from you Jamie. Thank you for your words and the soul connection you share with everyone.

May you have a wonderful Soulstice BEing in the dark and emerging into the light.

Holding both, balancing, just as I am while experiencing our longest day of the year here in New Zealand.

🌟🌑☀️🙏

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Thanks Jo! Happy Soulstice! Merry Christmas as you lean into Summer ☀️ ❤️ Thanks for BEing Here! Hope the house is humming love.

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Tears, Jamie. Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart through your words. Happy Soulstice, my brother. ❤️

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Thanks Jacqueline! Appreciate you. Happy Soulstice! Sing loudly in the Hammer. I can hear you 🙏❤️

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this is beautiful writing

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Thanks so much Elizabeth. Happy Soulstice 🙏❤️

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Hi Jamie, such beauty in your writing. Yes, we are infinite, eternal beings of love and light ... the shadows we bring to tangle a complication into darkness ... when we can feel into being. I am enjoying the Summer Soulstice. thank you 🙏🖤🌞

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Thanks Simone! Feeling into Being. Happy Soulstice! Enjoy Summer! Have a wonderful Christmas. 🙏❤️

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You have a fabulous one too Jamie ❤️🙏🏼🎄. My favourite season, Summer 🌺 🙌

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"The mother of existence always claims

what is

to give birth to

what is yet to come."

THIS has been on my mind today too.

Not verbatim in these words... but the fickleness of time... or her non-existence, really, when we think about how our stories and ourselves change (apparently) over time... until we realise that the change has nothing to do with time and everything to do with us.

All best wishes for a star studded song & dance to initiate a new cycle around the sun ✨💫 ⭐️

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Synchronicity! Have a blessed kiva season! Another widening circle ⭕️ around the sun. Ripples. See you in the spaces between the words. Thanks for Being-Here Veronika 🙏❤️

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Happy Solstice mate! Grateful for your commitment to keep showing up and sharing your words (and voice!) into this space. Much love to you and yours 🙏

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Thanks Will! Keep leaning into those Canadian Poets! Thanks for being you. Big hugs and blessings to you and yours! Hope to catch up soon! 🙏❤️

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I sure plan to! 😆

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I love the soulstice/solstice theme, and The Plot is gorgeous. Glad I found you here!

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Thanks Jeni! Nice to see you here too. Happy New Year! 🙏🙏

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Beautiful as always 🙏🏻

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Thanks Mo

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The Plot

Brewed mood and aura of times mythos, envelope of surrounding.

Rich in symbols and dense with meaning, a direct and clear message, bravo Jamie! You always surprise me with the evocative threads running through your verse.

May you enjoy a bountiful simplicity this Holly Holy Days and a Merry New year. Hang loose and sing for peace, your solsister, G

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Thanks Soul Sis! Singing loud with you. See you for another circle round the primordial. Blessings and thanks for Being-Here Geraldine! 🙏❤️

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Thank you my dear friend...so lovely to hear this today and to savor your words on the solstice. It has been a good day here in El Salvador which I learned is in the Northern Hemisphere today. It feels like an especially magical solstice. "No shadows in the darkness..." I spoke to a friend who did a retreat in darkness for five days. Your words remind me of that and how it is to come into the light. Both have such gifts.

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Thanks Terra! Happy magical Soul-stice to you. Thank you so much for sharing your journey. We are the light. Keep shining. We need you. 🙏❤️

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I can see you are sprinting to the 2024 finishing line on a high note with your current poetry. Nice work.

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Thanks Josh! I appreciate all the connecting in 2024. Blessings for a wonderful kiva season. 🙏❤️

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Happy soulstice, Jamie! How wonderful and poignant…and falling into the guts of forever…! I loved the thought of there being no shadow in darkness. Very beautiful, Jamie. Thank you so much for this gift. ❤️

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Thanks Jenn! Happy Soul-stice. Thanks for coming back and painting here with me all year. 🙏❤️

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Cheers to the next year’s paintings!

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Beautiful!!!! You have painted time as the bosom, where we suckle and nourish ourselves, where we are held closer than ever before and maybe ever again. How do we care for it, how do we let it care for us. "Embracing the darkness and living into the light....a Sacred convergence...A Soulstice." Thank you, dear Soul, Jamie, for lingering in those thresholds, asking the questions and patiently waiting for the responses. Perfection, my friend!! Mmm. Thank you. XO

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Thanks Danielle for showing up here and your kind words. Thanks for seeing those thresholds and living in to the verges. Blessings! Happy Soulstice 🙏❤️

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