<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">You are cordially invited to join us for an Oral Tradition Poetry Salon </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><b>Loving This Miraculous World</b></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><b><u>Saturday,</u> March 7, 2015 </b></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><b>7:00 PM</b> </div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">at the home of Rebecca Evert</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><b>7225 Palm Avenue, Sebastopol</b></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">Seating is limited.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">To reserve a space and to get directions, please contact Rebecca at <a href="mailto:revert@sonic.net">revert@sonic.net</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#fb2d32">Do not reply to this message!</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#fb2d32"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#fb2d32"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#fb2d32"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></span></span></span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Love This Miraculous World<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Our understandable wish </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">to preserve the planet</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">must somehow be </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">reduced</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">to the scale of our</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">competence.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Love is never abstract.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">It does not adhere</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">to the universe</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">or the planet</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">or the nation</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">or the institution</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">or the profession,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">but to the singular</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">sparrows of the street,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">the lilies of the field,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">“the least of these</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">my brethren.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Love this</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">miraculous world</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">that we did not make,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">that is a gift to us.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></div></body></html>