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The last class that we had, the topic was working with anger and working with aggression,

how we can attend to this natural life energy

with wisdom. And two days later, there was a violent attack on Paris. And it just felt so

natural and compelling that we would continue our exploration of these energies, that it just

there's so much heartbreak and care and prayer that circles around. And I know for myself,

there's something about, you know, with yet another very obvious on the surface round of violence,

that prayer, that can we learn?

Can it teach us?

Is there some way that this can actually wake up our hearts and minds?

And I ended the last talk with a poem.

And the poem was written by a local boy here,

Maddie Stepanek.

I think I'm saying his name right, Steponic. So Maddie, 13 years old, a poet who has since died of muscular dystrophy,

and he wrote a poem the day after 9-11.

So it just felt so pertinent to us,

because I don't know how many of you are feeling the same thing,

but I just keep going back and forth, oh, 9-11, and here we are,

and what's happened in between.

There's all slants for what's happened in between,

but some of the elements that strike me

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