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</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">This covers all the basis. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The good, the bad and the intwtween. They
are all mixed up . <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Yet the finish is about a better wayh of
living. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">It ends on a high note <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">A better wayh of living with nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Living a sustainable, peaceful life. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">But talks about what you are doing to get
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">It talks about the high and lows<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">of making the adjustment.</font><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I like it.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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What to Do?<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Marcia
J. Wick, The Write Sisters<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">April
2020<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Word
Count: 252<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">What
to do? What to write? Check my email. Check the headlines. Walk the dog. Walk
in circles. Call a friend. Call a neighbor. Surf the web. Search the fridge.
Wash my clothes. Scrub my hands. Use my phone. Touch my face. Can’t think
straight. Can’t quite focus. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Humorous
emails distract me. Horrendous statistics distress me. I’m encouraged by
recoveries. I’m inspired by resilience. I worry about the future. I’m dismayed
about the past. I would like to vote for Andrew. I would like to vote for
change. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
was born after the holocaust, the Great Depression, two world wars, and a civil
war. I was born white, privileged, insulated, and naive. We’ll survive, or we
won’t. Dad is old. My granddaughter is but a babe. I hope the climate will
recover. I pray the wildlife will forgive us.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I am
grateful for shelter and food and family. I am worried for family and friends
and myself. I focus on one day at a time. I count my blessings. I pray for
grace. I hold on. I let go. I reconcile with friends. I forgive enemies. I
enjoy relief from traffic, enriched by bird songs.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
dream…a screened-in patio, I eat and sleep in the fresh air, I read and write
to my heart’s content. A guide dog is asleep at my feet, an old cat is curled
up at my side. The song birds call. A “new normal” is established where we
drive less, consume less, walk more, and share more.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv8914657229msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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