Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Reprinted from a Traveler to the Amazon. ` "And I was reminded: Perhaps this is one of the deepest illnesses       Of our time: disconnection.       From Earth.       From one another.       From touch.       From trust.       From belonging.       In the forest, prayer becomes song.       Song becomes movement.       Movement becomes community.       And community becomes medicine.       A medicine of joy--a phrase I hear       Again and again from the Yawanawk:       So alegria!! (Only joy!!) I came home asking:       What would it look like to remember             this way of living?       To build communities rooted in care.       To live less guarded.       To trust one another more deeply.       To remember that healing does not             happen alone." (From: Love Thy Nature.) Frank Maurer 30 June 2026 1815 Hours.