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JUDITH

WA - Judith (Kema) Larsen (nee Rankin) crossed the threshold to the Great Beyond on August 11, 2025. Born in Butte, MT on December 5th, 1939, she was a Montana girl who loved her horse, Dagger. She moved with her family to Bainbridge Island, WA and at age 17 published her first poem. A year later she was accepted to the University of Washington where she studied poetry under Theodore Roethke and other major poets, and was quickly embraced by its creative community. Kema met her husband Paul in Yellowstone Park during the 1959 earthquake. Together, they had daughters Astrid in Anchorage and Heidi in Montreal. After a master's degree in Elizabethan literature at Columbia, she procured a law degree from Georgetown University. She practiced as a public defender in the juvenile courts in Washington DC and worked for the Environmental Protection Agency. She also contracted with the American Bar Association, advising on laws, educating judges, and writing the book, Foster Care Law: A Primer. Kema was the self-imposed anonymous editor of over 100 of her husband's journal articles on Air and Space Law and was the source of their engaging titles. After retiring, she moved back to Bainbridge Island to study philosophy, quantum physics, and esotericism. Kema was brilliant, enigmatic, and will be missed, especially by her Thursday group, Quaker friends and her beloved Bookies.                                  ___________________

A month before she passed away, Kema, Jason and I took the ferry to Seattle and visited her favorite bookstore and gelato shop. Our arms heavy with books and our bellies full of chocolate gelato, we took the ferry home, singing aloud all the songs we knew.  Some people on the ferry looked at us, because we were making so much noise. But I think they were happy for us, and wanted to sing along. What is your memory?

With love,

Heidi

WAR AND PEACE

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

449

because he understood something else that the living did not and could not understand, and that entirely absorbed him.

452

In those hours of solitary suffering and half delirium that he spent afterwards, the more he passed in thought into the new element of eternal love, revealed to him, the further he travelled from earthly life. To love everything, every one, to sacrifise self always for love, meant to love no one, meant not to live this earthly life, the more completely he annihilated that fearful barrier between life and death.

453

when love for one woman stole unseen into his heart, and bound him again to life.

... It was the last mortal struggle between life and death, in which death gained the victory. It was the sudden consciousness that life, in the shape of his love for Natasha, was still precious to him, and the last and vanquished onslaught of terror before the unknown. 

454

"Natasha I love you too much! More than everything in the world!

455

Love hinders death. Love is life. All , all that I understand, I understand only because I love. All is, all exists only because I love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God, and dying means from a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love

455-56-57

... He dreamed...by degrees all these people began to disappear, and the one thing that was left was the question of closing the door...Everything depended on whether he were on time to shut it or not...And    an agonizing terror came upon him; Behind the door stood it...His last supernatural efforts were in vain...It comes in, and it is death. He died.

But at that instant he recollected that he was asleep; he made an effort and waked up. "Yes, death is an awakening," flashed with sudden light into his soul, and the veil that had till then hidden the unknown was lifted before his spiritual vision. He felt, as it were, set free from some force that held him in bondage, and was aware of that strange lightness of being that had not left him since.

that day there began for Andrey an awakening from life...he was no more...the body, deserted by the spirit, passed through its last struggles

Midsummer Night's Dream

Blakes Fairies

Bottom's dream 

"Methought I was—there

is no man can tell what. Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the
latter end of a play, before the duke:
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it at her death."

First Corinthians 2

[9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
[10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
[11] For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
[12] Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
[13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
[14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
[15] But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
[16] For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Frye, Page 50

" but he has been closer to this wonderful and mysterious play than any other of its characters, and it no longer matters that Puck thinks him a fool or that Titania loathes his asinine face."

A Midsummer Night's Dream 
Puck (Act 5 Scene 2)
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends."

TITANIA AND OBERON
Song of Los, Plate 5 , British Museum

Tate
Illustrations to Shakepeare
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing

GOOD LIFE

Sunday, September 13, 2009

THE GOOD LIFE

Milton O. Percival in his book WILLIAM BLAKE'S CIRCLE OF DESTINY, analyzed the ideas that lie behind Blake's thinking. He finds Blake to exhibit familiar tenants of idealism. These are the ones he names:

1.) Appearances are not reality

2.) Intuition is a prime source of knowledge

3.) The mind creates the universe in its own likeness

4.) The cosmic mind corresponds to the individual mind

5.) Reality is mental

Percival adds these tenants in Blake's thought.

6.) The individual and universal minds are identical in nature

7.) The supreme experience is ecstacy

8.) The good life is unitive concerning itself in building Jerusalem

Percival describes the good life as envisioned by Blake thus:

"It requires that one make the mystical identification of oneself with others and of all with God; and that one should have faith in that identification when the immediate perception fades. ...

"The good life must be built by faith or experience, on the qualities of imagination.

To attempt to build it on the qualities of reason or sense is to reduce a god-like man to a handful of dust."

Blake in his poetry continually restates and develops these tenants. Furthermore he lived his life by these tenants in his commitment to Eternity and to the expression of Imagination. 

 

LARRY'S LIFE

 BIOGRAPHY

1st decade        LIFE BEGINS

2 nd decade      HIGH SCHOOL YEARS

                         COLLEGE YEARS

                         GOING TO SEA

3 rd decade       CUBA VICTORY 

                         BACK TO DUKE 

                         KOREAN WAR

                         CIVILIAN AT LAST  

                          LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS  

4th decade        TRANSITION

                          SETTING FORTH

                          NEXT STEP

5th decade         GOVERNMENT JOB

                          LIFE IN WINSTON SALEM

                          TRY AGAIN

                          JOURNEY CONTINUES

6th decade         IN ARLINGTON

                           QUAKERS 

                           LIVING IN VIRGINIA 

7th decade          END OF BEGINNING

                           FREEDOM   

                           FREEDOM 2

                           FREEDOM 3

8th decade         REFLECTIONS 

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Another perspective. CHILD'S JOURNEY

Ezra

E 707

Now my lot in the Heavens is this; Milton lovd me in childhood & shewd me his face Ezra came with Isaiah the Prophet, but Shakespeare in riper years gave me his hand Paracelsus & Behmen appeard to me. terrors appeard in the Heavens above

 2 Esdras

4Ezra.1

4Ezra.8

[47] For you come far short of being able to love my creation more than I love it. But you have often compared yourself to the unrighteous. Never do so!
[48] But even in this respect you will be praiseworthy before the Most High,
[49] because you have humbled yourself, as is becoming for you, and have not deemed yourself to be among the righteous in order to receive the greatest glory.
[50] For many miseries will affect those who inhabit the world in the last times, because they have walked in great pride.
[51] But think of your own case, and inquire concerning the glory of those who are like yourself,
[52] because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.
[53] The root of evil is sealed up from you, illness is banished from you, and death is hidden; hell has fled and corruption has been forgotten;
[54] sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest.
[55] Therefore do not ask any more questions about the multitude of those who perish.
[56] For they also received freedom , but they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and forsook his ways.
[57] Moreover they have even trampled upon his righteous ones,
[58] and said in their hearts that there is not God -- though knowing full well that they must die.