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Subject: The missing piece

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Cassie

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Date Posted: 22:38:46 09/16/01 Sun

Softly and slowly Being proudly takes Her place at the bow of the ship, facing forward into the wind, steady as a rock. Waves lift and drop the boat in a never ending rhythm, up and down, down and up as certain as the ocean itself. All is well. Even were the boat to capsize, Being would remain unperturbed and yet She rides those waves into the deepest troughs and experiences Herself as the deepest pain that humanity can hold. How can this be? I don�t know.

I didn�t mean to write an �up� piece here. Au contraire, I meant to honor the down, to dwell in the down, as I have been doing all week. Polarized from the �up� people, and all those in denial of the depth of this pain, I now see that my very polarization IS the context of pain. Even the �uppers� the �deniers� and all such, even these play their part and hold a piece of the work. I don�t know exactly how and sometimes I feel that a part of the pain I feel is theirs, unfelt. But how can I ask them to feel something that until this very week I have been unable to feel myself? I can�t.

And so I want to ask all parts of this piece, this dialogue, to join in here. Some of you have come and said your piece and found some relief in doing so. I am so grateful that this forum has served you in this way. I am sad that we have never heard from you again. We are like blind people here, sitting in a room where people come and go, never knowing whether they will return or even if they might still be here.

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