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  • 1 Stuart Barden:

    Throwing caution to the wind, Joe decides, with the aid of the ladder, to reach the heavens for guidance

  • 2 Leslie:

    Colleen, Colleen, come back down here! I’ve got a ladder but it’s too short!

  • 3 colleen:

    Can you hear me laughing from here to Meadows of Dan?

  • 4 joeyk:

    try as we may
    we barely hold our ground
    as the winds of change
    flow between heaven and earth
    can we deal with the most vital matters
    by letting things take their course
    can we step back from our own minds
    and thus standunder all things

  • 5 Gerry Redman:

    Ya, God, I’ve got one of your missing angles here…I tried to put her back, but I think I need a taller ladder!

  • 6 colleen:

    You guys are good! Hi Gerry!!

  • 7 SandyCarlson:

    I’m thinking this is really what St. Peter looks like!

  • 8 Sherry:

    I’m praying that the ladder will work for just a minute while I check out heaven.

  • 9 Steven Schwartz:

    Angel prays for a mate for Bill and gets a ladder Bill questions if god has been drinking

  • 10 colleen:

    Here’s the scene. Joe was doing his Martial Arts in the yard. The papers are for the new routine he’s learning. He had them on the table but they blew off. The ladder is there because he was preparing to take down a tree in our yard to bring more light into the cabin, which happened later that day. But I like some of your answers bette

  • 11 rumi:

    The Endless Ocean.
    From the moment you were born
    a ladder was placed before you that you might escape
    From the earth you became a plant
    from plant you became animal
    afterwards you became a human being
    endowed with knowledge, intellect and faith
    behold the body born of dust
    how perfect it has become
    why should you fear its ending?
    for when were you ever made less by dying
    when you pass from this earthly realm
    no doubt you will become an angel and soar about the heavens
    but do not stop there
    for even heavenly bodies grow old
    pass again from the realm of heaven
    and plunge into the vast ocean of consciosness
    let the drop of water that you are
    become a hundred mighty seas
    but do not think that the drop of water
    alone becomes the ocean
    for the ocean too
    becomes the drop.
    This is the endless ocean.

  • 12 Patry francis:

    Was the photo meant to illustrate the Rumi poem? If not, it’s a happy coincidence. Both contain intimations of bliss. Love to you, “cousin.”

  • 13 colleen:

    The photo was completely organic, not set up. But from the moment I saw it, I thought of that Rumi passage. It’s one that I have used in meditation. Joe knows it too, which is why he wrote it here and signed his name Rumi. xo

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