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Donna McArthur's avatar

Blessings to you Dearest Renee. I love this poem so much and will carry it with me on the tides of this uncertain year. I hope to join you on Sunday and will touch base as soon as I figure out if it will work. xo

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dearest Donna, I'm so glad to read this poem will be with you in the days ahead. We carry this poem together "on the tides of this uncertain year." Know that I would love for you to join me on Sunday.

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Kaitlyn Rightmyer's avatar

Happy 2025 to you! What a beautiful poem to bless this day with. 🤍✨

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Kaitlyn, thank you. May these words bless us all year through. Wishing you a Happy 2025!

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Mark Malinak's avatar

Happy New Year, Renée. Tender and gentle lines for this changing year to come. Warmed my soul before the sleep was rubbed from my eyes.

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Mark, I'm so glad to read these words warmed your soul at the first whisper of morning. Happy New Year.

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Thaissa Lara's avatar

Oh, Renée—how I adore Lucille Clifton. Simply beautiful! 💫

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Thank you, Thaissa. I'm so glad to know this poem touched you, too.

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Brenda Sistrom's avatar

I love the poem. There's something very John O'Donohue about it--the feel, the connecting of inner being to outer world. Thank you, Renee, and thank you for all your gifts of the past year. You have provided an anchor of beauty and grace in the chaos that surrounds us. May we all find a strength and peace --and joy! in 2025.

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dear Brenda, I thank you for seeing John O'Donohue's always attunement of the inner with the outer and the outer with the inner in this poem. Now I can almost hear his lilt in the whispering echo of Clifton. And thank you for your kind words. They touch me. May we all find a strength and peace -- and joy! in 2025, nourished, I sense, by heartfelt connection and sea-depths of care for one another and our belonging in this, our beautiful world.

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Erma Cooke's avatar

As with a lot of your posts that I find myself reading, I have to ponder this one and hold it close as it seeps into my soul. Thank you.

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dearest Erma, "hold it close as it seeps into my soul": I echo you and wonder how the poem, read daily, might become the tenor of 2025. Thank you for sharing.

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Fifi's avatar

•and may you in your innocence, sail through this to that• offers untold hope, and so we are blessed by this your offering, for which thank you, may you receive your due blessings in full throughout the year ahead, it has been ushered in well.

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dear Fifi, thank you. 🙏 May we sail through this to that on these whispers of untold hope.

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Susie Kaufman's avatar

Thank you for everything, Renee. This new year has more intentionality tin it han any I have experienced before. Everyone seems to be paying attention.

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dearest Susie,

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I echo you about this new year, which brings a sense of promise. May we fortify and find solace in one another.

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Emily Conway's avatar

I love this poem Renée. Thank you!

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Emily, I'm so glad. Thank you for sharing this with me.

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Doreen  Tanenbaum's avatar

Thank you Renée for bringing in the New Year with a gentle flow within and without. Lucille Clifton, “blessing the boats,” was a perfect way to open the portal for 2025 it touched my soul.

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dear Doreen, thank you for sharing that this poem touched your soul. I'm so very glad.

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Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Happy New Year, Renée. So glad our paths have crossed here. 💚

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Julie, I echo you: I, too, am so glad our paths have crossed here. Now that they have (with thanks to Kimberly Warner for connecting us), I look forward to connecting more. Happy New Year to you!

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Susie Mawhinney's avatar

Dearest Renée, I join you in the quietness of this bright new day, the first of a new year of gifted days, in the hope that the tide lapping gently at our understanding brings with it peace and love and light and, with it, my blessings to you and all those you love.

I wish you Happy New Days beautiful soul 🕊xx

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Renée Eli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Dearest Susie, thank you. Word from you never ceases to touch my heart. Thank you. I wish you Happy New Days beautiful soul.

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