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The previous four posts were all from Coastal Connections held this morning.
Our next meetup will be on Wednesday 10th June at 10:00 via Zoom.
It will be facilitated by Lesley.
See you in two weeks!!
Closing words from the congregation of First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter (USA)![]()
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Go in peace.![]()
Speak truth.![]()
Give thanks each day.![]()
Respect the earth, and all creatures, for they are alive like you.![]()
Care for your body. It is a wondrous gift.![]()
Live simply.![]()
Be of service. ![]()
Be guided by your faith and not your fear.![]()
Go lightly on your way. ![]()
Walk in a sacred manner.![]()
❤️
To The Sea by Philip Larkin![]()
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To step over the low wall that divides![]()
Road from concrete walk above the shore![]()
Brings sharply back something known long before –![]()
The miniature gaiety of seasides.![]()
Everything crowds under the low horizon:![]()
Steep beach, blue water, towels, red bathing caps,![]()
The small hushed waves’ repeated fresh collapse![]()
Up the warm yellow sand, and further off![]()
A white steamer stuck in the afternoon –![]()
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Still going on, all of it, still going on!![]()
To lie, eat, sleep in hearing of the surf![]()
(Ears to transistors, that sound tame enough![]()
Under the sky), or gently up and down![]()
Lead the uncertain children, frilled in white![]()
And grasping at enormous air, or wheel![]()
The rigid old along for them to feel![]()
A final summer, plainly still occurs![]()
As half an annual pleasure, half a rite,![]()
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As when, happy at being on my own,![]()
I searched the sand for Famous Cricketers,![]()
Or, farther back, my parents, listeners![]()
To the same seaside quack, first became known.![]()
Strange to it now, I watch the cloudless scene:![]()
The same clear water over smoothed pebbles![]()
The distant bathers’ weak protesting trebles![]()
Down at its edge, and then the cheap cigars,![]()
The chocolate-papers, tea-leaves, and, between![]()
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The rocks, the rusting soup-tins, till the first![]()
Few families start the trek back to the cars.![]()
The white steamer has gone. Like breathed-on glass![]()
The sunlight has turned milky. If the worst![]()
Of flawless weather is our falling short,![]()
It may be that through habit these do best,![]()
Coming to water clumsily undressed![]()
Yearly; teaching their children by a sort![]()
Of clowning; helping the old, too, as they ought.