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Crystal Cave

a thank you for you — and your light

Jenine Bsharah Baines
Thank You Notes
Published in
1 min readJun 13, 2021

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Image by Christoph Schütz from Pixabay

Thank you, dear readers
Heaven’s manna, being heard
You are Grace and Feast —
dark Before now crystal caves
echoing flames of Afters

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2021

I’ve been intrigued by the idea of a crystal cave ever since I read Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave when I was 14 years old. Fabulous take on the Arthurian tradition, with Merlin living in…yes, a cave lined with crystals!

Synchronicity alert — I’m also listening to a presentation on the “Cave of the Heart” by Father Michael Fish. His site is called Hermit Fish because Michael is a bona fide hermit…and where did mystics often live centuries ago? Caves.

Magic. Spirituality. Flames of Light eternally reflected thanks, dearest readers, to the spark within you.

Thank you, Trista Signe Ainsworth, for the spark lit by Thank You Notes. So many of us are drawn to it and its mission like moths to a flame!

jenine

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Jenine Bsharah Baines
Thank You Notes

J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself