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Jamie Millard's avatar

Ahh the brilliance of The Bond Effect! Summing up the wisdom of sages in only a few phrases! Thats healing to my eyes! Poetic inquiry at its best here Josh! Emotional Intelligence on display if we can say it. How about “heartfulness”?

You breathe in life and breathe out poetry!

Thank you! 🙏❤️

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Mr Bond sitting here after a late Sunday lunch (well the clocks did go forward last night, and we 'lost' and hour) says thank you kindly for your comment. He shall note that bit about breathing too; he always tells himself he fails to breathe deep enough.

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Veronika Bond's avatar

oh, that THING...

where a hint of thin

in a git with a nit

sounds a ti in a ghi,

with a hit of gin?

or a ting at night

in a tin heavy as hin

when the nth is nigh?

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Joshua Bond's avatar

You took the words right out of my mouth 💜

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Veronika Bond's avatar

🤭

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Deborah Gregory's avatar

I love how time transforms “the thing” from burden to balance, revealing its transient nature and inviting us to embrace life's ebb and flow. After all, a thing about "the thing" is that it's never just one thing!

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you. That's so true how, if we give something time and space without trying to impose an agenda on it, how 'the thing' reveals it is different from our initial perception. And that's how we alter our experience of life.

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Perry J. Greenbaum 🇨🇦 🦜's avatar

Give it some time and our perceptions can change. From fear to acceptance. The point of seeing "the thing" in others speaks of shared experiences and community. And normalization. We are not meant to live alone, isolated.

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Yes, "from fear to acceptance" hits the nail on the head, Perry, thank you. It one sits with a question, holding the question, then the situation that triggered the question in the first place can sometimes (often?) resolve itself.

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

These things rise and rise and then fall and fall only for us to realise they were really nothing at all :) Love it Joshua

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you. The 'big deals' of yesterday (or yesteryear) so often turn out to be so much piffle. Perhaps that's a marker of growing up, I hope.

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Philip Harris's avatar

Good rhythm, a day a time. After all it is one thing after another😊

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you. Yep, 'sufficient unto the day are the 'things' thereof'. 😊

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