Comments - THE SAPPHIRE REVELATION - Gaia Community2024-03-29T14:11:46Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A12932&xn_auth=noNEVER forgetting, of course,…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2015-04-23:5313775:Comment:187662015-04-23T05:30:53.888ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>NEVER forgetting, of course, that it was in the hills of India that the <strong>Rules of SNOOKER</strong>, were first</p>
<p>written down, in a place that gave relief to the British, from the d<em>ay to day workings of the</em> EMPIRE,</p>
<p>over which <strong>Queen Victoria</strong> ruled with an iron fist of discipline, forever committed to her own</p>
<p>soul-mate connection with <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" target="_blank">Prince Albert…</a></strong></p>
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<p>NEVER forgetting, of course, that it was in the hills of India that the <strong>Rules of SNOOKER</strong>, were first</p>
<p>written down, in a place that gave relief to the British, from the d<em>ay to day workings of the</em> EMPIRE,</p>
<p>over which <strong>Queen Victoria</strong> ruled with an iron fist of discipline, forever committed to her own</p>
<p>soul-mate connection with <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" target="_blank">Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha</a></strong>. Unfortunately that</p>
<p>'iron fist of discipline' precluded Victoria as Queen, from the inter-personal relationships with</p>
<p>others and particularly her children, which are best alluded to by <span>Muriel Rukeyser, in her <br/></span></p>
<p><span><strong>Speed of Darkness</strong> poems. As the <strong>Goodreads <em><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10604650-the-speed-of-darkness" target="_blank">synopsis states</a></em></strong> ... </span> In an essay on the poet</p>
<p>Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich writes that Rukeyser "<em><strong>was one of the great integrators, seeing</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>emotional repair.</strong></em>" <br/><br/><br/></p>
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<p></p> Soul-mates from the outse…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-02-23:5313775:Comment:129342013-02-23T18:12:33.838ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719201?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719201?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300"></img></a> <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=423501601011430&set=a.397880643573526.103336.100000547827652&type=1&theater" target="_blank">Soul-mates from the outset -</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span>"To construct peace, to make love,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span>to reconcile </span><span>waking with…</span></strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719201?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719201?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=423501601011430&set=a.397880643573526.103336.100000547827652&type=1&theater" target="_blank">Soul-mates from the outset -</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span>"To construct peace, to make love,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span>to reconcile </span><span>waking with sleeping,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span>ourselves with </span></strong><strong>each other,</strong></p>
<p><strong>ourselves with ourselves.</strong></p>
<p><strong>We would try by any means to reach</strong></p>
<p><strong>the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond</strong></p>
<p><strong>ourselves, to let go the means, to wake."</strong></p>
<p><strong><br/><em> <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Muriel+Rukeyser&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=tOUpUYC0E7ON0wWllICABQ" target="_blank">Muriel Rukeyser</a><br/></em></strong></p>
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