<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>All Her Life, She was Old</div><div><br></div><div><div>All my life, my Nana was old.</div><div>She was born old, quiet and thoughtful.</div><div>She always had false teeth, that</div><div>Clicked when she talked.</div><div><br></div><div>She always wore glasses with thick</div><div>Yellowed lenses.</div><div>A corona of white hair</div><div>Always framed her wizened, wrinkled face.</div><div><br></div><div>My Nana, born old,</div><div>Always gathered with other</div><div>Old women, my aunts, or neighbors</div><div>Or neighbors who were my aunts—</div><div><br></div><div>Women she’d known</div><div>All my life—born old, too.</div><div>They sat on couches</div><div>Or stoops and gossiped</div><div><br></div><div>About the weather, each other or</div><div>Old men and grandchildren.</div><div>If they worried,</div><div>I was unaware.</div><div><br></div><div>Life was lived, nothing more,</div><div>Which is all that is necessary </div><div>If one is born old.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rebecca del Rio</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">Rumi’s Caravan returns to the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa on Saturday, February 7. Good seats still remain for both the matinee and evening performances. Tickets make great gifts for you and anyone who enjoys the beauty and wisdom of mystic poetry performed in the ecstatic tradition. Please join us. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">Get more info here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1585583911671679/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: black; ">https://www.facebook.com/events/1585583911671679/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(0, 32, 96); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></body></html>