"Decrease combined with sincerity" is what this morning's I Ching reading suggests I meditate upon. Canada the mountain above, America the lake below, Myself the evaporation of liquid water into drifting clouds heavy with the bounty of the rain to be transubstantiated into the gifts of grapes and wine and, flowing with the river, love pouring into the simplicity of the vast and mysterious sea. Not hesitating to help when help is needed — but with sensitive awareness — is an element of this release of assertion. But to do so with one's dignity preserved — a stranger in a strange land — is also paramount when one's home is no longer separate but joined at the culmination of a long journey together that ends precisely at a new beginning.

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