{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"hearthis.at","provider_url":"https:\/\/hearthis.at","height":"150","width":"100%","title":"DeaneTR & Mike Mercker - Lone Wolf Circles - Gaia Bless","description":"See the full presentation here: http:\/\/armedwithvisions.com\/2012\/09\/14\/lone-wolf-circles-gaia-bless\/\r\n\r\nGaia Bless\r\nus each in our fleeting, mortal moment,\r\nour willingness to feel, our trying to make it real.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nall the sensitive souls among our blighted human kind,\r\nbless those who reject the distractions of our age\r\nto hear the cries of the sacred Mother.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nthose that hear and respond to Her Call\r\nwith struggle, even when struggle fails;\r\nwith healing, even when our healing proves less than adequate\r\nto stem the flow of precious Gaian blood;\r\nand with prayer, even as we ache to understand her answers\r\ncast in evolutionary code, in the rustling of den-bound snakes\r\nand the shaking of Her winter storms.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nthe old folks who talk to weeds, and kids who ask too many questions.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nthe tribes and the tribeless;\r\nthe happily married, those seeking and those contented alone;\r\nthose who forgive but never forget;\r\nand all the imperfect two-leggeds who serve the perfection of Nature.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nthose who oppose the bulldozers\r\nand those who instead plant flowers in the bulldozer's most recent tracks;\r\nthe teachers and the hermits, the first and the last.\r\nGaia Bless those of our kind instilled with patience,\r\nunwilling to deny Her the thousands of years of painful change\r\nthat is her timely rite of passage.\r\nAnd Gaia Bless\r\nthe impatient among us as well,\r\nunwilling and unable to accept the reality of temporary defeats,\r\nrisking drowning in the depths\r\nto assist even a little the height of her rising tides.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nHer warriors, who give up their freedom, their families,\r\ntheir homes and their lives\r\nfor something greater than our lonely, individual selves.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nthose bound to constant movement, winging through tornadoes,\r\nmigrating through the years;\r\nincluding those too busy to stop and smell the earth.\r\nAnd Gaia Bless\r\nthose remaining still enough through these storms of transition,\r\nwho bond their flesh to dirt,\r\nwho hear and record her instruction and song,\r\nwho touch her earthen skin just the way She likes and tend her willow hair.\r\nGaia Bless\r\nall those who try, succeed or fail,\r\nthose who always act decisively, but never out of hatred;\r\nyes... those whose every living breath\r\nasserts their pledge of Love.\r\nBy our hearts and our acts may we be Worthy.\r\nGaia Bless. Gaia Bless.\r\n\r\nJ. Wolf Hardin\r\nFeb.-Mar. 1999 Earth First!","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/img.hearthis.at\/7\/2\/0\/_\/uploads\/5139434\/image_track\/1047332\/w1200_h628_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_120b86bc536d6055167774bfae6fe1b8_1475186027.jpg","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":628,"html":"